Olympics cycling: Marginal gains underpin Team GB dominance
Quite a funny article on this question. Lord Hoy discussed this on the beeb last night too....
"So the secret of British cycling's success is taking your own pillow with you when you travel, and cleaning your hands properly.
Sorry, Dave, but that's not going to wash with the opponents you have just steamrollered for the second Games in succession. They want cheating, they want witchcraft, they want an excuse.
The day before, French newspaper L'Equipe had run a story based on claims of skulduggery from Isabelle Gautheron, the French team's boss.
She said the British were supposed to be using the same wheels her team got from the French company Mavic, but they could not be the same because the Brits were going so much faster than her riders.
When asked about these "magic" wheels, Brailsford told L'Equipe they were "round".
And yet still the vanquished were not satisfied."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19174302
