Suedesi
Full Member
If people actually looked at what goes into energy gels and Powerade, they might reconsider if those drinks are "healthy"... yet athletes scoff them down. Tour De France riders literally eat rice cakes coated in sugar and butter along with cans of coke... There is only so much food these players can consume that is "Healthy" because items such as spinach etc have other nutrients in them that can actually make people quite ill or prone to other illnesses.
Fast food is quick easy caloric grab. I'd also imagine those chips are not deepfried either but either air fried or are oven baked.
Tour de France is the most devastating, grueling sporting event on the face of the Earth. When cyclists finish the Tour they are osteopenic, their bone density has eroded, they've lost so much fat and muscle mass that if you look at their faces they seem to have aged 10 years. Professional cyclists are in a league of their own, they're some of the toughest athletes out there in terms of workload, ability to endure pain and physiological torture for a long stretch of time.
So if you think a Tour de France competitor scarfing down some gels mid race in the Alps is any way comparable to a soccer player stuffing his face after a training session you're out to fecking lunch mate.
Here's what Wiggins and Froome look under those yellow spandex jerseys: