They proved that the most elite drafting is a *team* strategy, not just a pacemaker's gift. The sub-two-hour attempts were a perfectly engineered convoy, a choreographed dance of rotating pacers taking the wind and setting a metronomic rhythm the star could lock into. My own training on the dusty roads of Bengal, often alone with just my watch, reminds me that in an actual race like the Olympics, that sheltered luxury won't exist. You have to hold your own wind, find your own rhythm in the chaos, which makes those attempts a beautiful experiment, but a different beast altogether.
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