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Sport science: sleep, shoes and the one percents
The marginal gains industry sold a story. Here is what the data actually supports.


Sport science correspondent
ParisAt SportPulse since 2018French · English
Features and long reads. Sport science — shoes, sleep and the one percents that decide a season — and the people the numbers are about.
Nine months in the safe-standing sections for The last terrace; a season with a kit factory before that.

The marginal gains industry sold a story. Here is what the data actually supports.

Heat, television and the morning a city woke up to watch a race already half over.
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