New Hope For One-Armed Jugglers As Asthmatics Turn Out To Be Worlds Best Cyclists
2017-12-17
News that Tour De France winning cyclist, Chris Froome, inadvertently over-dosed on asthma medication during a race earlier this year, threw light on an interesting conundrum – why are so many of the worlds best cyclists asthma sufferers? Some genuine research for a change, reveals that Olympic level cyclists seem to be twice as likely as an average person to be using asthma medication, and those that do are 50% more likely to be medalists than their non-asthmatic competitors.
So the best performers in a sport which depends on the efficient use of oxygen, are apparently competitors who have a medical condition which restricts their bodies ability to use oxygen efficiently.
Why is this? Despite a great deal of cogitation, the Bugle team have been unable to come up with a plausible answer which wouldn’t get them sued, or at least abused by strange men in Lycra. But it must give hope to one armed jugglers, pot bellied jockeys and darts players with Parkinson’s disease everywhere.
The Bugle understands that news of the link between asthma and cycling prowess has inspired David Blunkett to try out for the British clay pigeon shooting team.
