{"id":14563,"date":"2017-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/cyclist-shares-alarming-photo-of-himself-during-tour-de-france\/"},"modified":"2017-07-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:00:00","slug":"cyclist-shares-alarming-photo-of-himself-during-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/cyclist-shares-alarming-photo-of-himself-during-tour-de-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist shares ALARMING photo of himself during Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Pro cyclist Pawel Poljanski has shared a shocking photo of the state of his legs after 16 stages of the gruelling Tour de France.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think my legs look little tired,\u201d the polish rider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p.poljanski\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">posted on Instagram<\/a>, along with a photo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"896\" width=\"1376\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2017-07-19_at_4.02.27_pm.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fans expressed their shock\/concern\/distress over the image, but a University of Queensland doctor explained what\u2019s going on here&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>The amount of blood that we get normally going down to our legs is five litres per minute,\u201d Dr Bradley Launikonis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-07-19\/tour-de-france-what-a-cyclist-legs-look-like-after-16-stages\/8722948\" target=\"_blank\">told the ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor an untrained athlete, their maximum exercise will have 20 litres per minute flowing through the muscles\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of these elite cyclists will have double that, about 40 litres per minute. They have massive volumes of blood moving through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The blood can pool there and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening in this extreme case. 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