Tour de France winner Chris Froome answered the public's calls for transparency over his exceptional performances by releasing his physiological test data last week. Critics were quick to point out that some important information was missing, but Dr. Jeroen Swart, the exercise physiologist who conducted the tests, told Cyclingnews they intend to publish additional data in a peer-reviewed scientific journal in 2016.
The journal article will contain full details of the tests Swart and his colleagues Dr. Phill Bell and Matt Furber conducted at the GSK Human Performance Lab in London in August 2015, going beyond the synopsis that was published by Esquire magazine last week.
Speaking with Cyclingnews, Swart said the full report will answer some of the criticisms levied at the initial publication, including the missing efficiency data noted by Dr. Andrew Coggan.
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"[Coggan] made a comment about efficiency data, which is a valid point," Swart told Cyclingnews. "It doesn't really fit with an initial report. That's the data we will publish in a peer-reviewed scientific article. It was premature to ask for that. It's self-evident there is a lot more data that we collected and that we can't publish all of it immediately. Because then no scientific journal would want to publish it because it's in the public domain already."
When Froome decided to answer the critics and submit to physiological testing, his wife Michelle Cound reached out to Swart, who Froome had met backstage at the South African television station SuperSport, where they were both booked for a segment in 2011. They kept in touch occasionally, and then Cound reached out during this year's Tour de France.
"After all the abuse he suffered, I got a call out of the blue from Michelle, who asked whether I'd be interested in doing the testing," Swart said.
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