[trapper]

Let's not continue this here. If you are really interested, go talk to any local sports scientist involved in professional or olympic level sport and ask them their expert opinion.

Or, put your email on your profile and I'll fill you in privately.

[giardini]

URL?

[trapper]

I don't follow. If you mean url to talk to a sports scientist you will probably need to just call into your local sports institute/academy and have a chat.

[giardini]

"You may be skeptical about the biking but it's a fact, I work with these people :)"

Is it a fact? Who are "these people"? Perhaps there's a URL you could provide that tells authoritatively the story of how certain swimmers in Beijing decided to not ride bicycles?

That URL