![]() And while there’s some debate on how exactly he cheated, the gist of it is that either he did a man-in-the-middle attack, or he tweaked his power meter/trainer calibration values to provide higher wattages. Zwift launched an investigation, and as usual, they’d throw down a pile of data showing Hoole cheated. It wasn’t possible, and is largely beyond known human performance levels. “He took on with an amazing effort, something we’ve almost never seen before”…“that is one of the best efforts, I literally have ever seen for a catch on Zwift, to go flying right on by, Eddy Hoole just did what I thought was absolutely impossible”. Just after crossing the line ( 41:23) as the winner, announcer Nathan Guerra says: Here’s an image from that very livestream, showing that very moment of Mr. Again, all after 30 minutes of theoretically all-out riding. He held 8 w/kg for 4 minutes up that climb, peaking at times at 10 w/kg. ![]() Eddy Hoole, decided to take his balls beyond the wall – and on the final climb towards the finish, he pushed essentially beyond human limits. The event he was actually disqualified for occurred a month earlier in November during a 27.2KM stage that was more or less balls to the wall from start to finish (I suppose most Zwift races are). ![]() Sent in via DCR Reader, Alex, this one takes the cake.Īs you may remember, back in December (2022), the winner of one of the UCI World Championship qualifiers was disqualified. I’m out riding, running, and swimming a stupid number of miles this week (testing a very diverse set of things), but reader, I wanted to take a brief moment to acknowledge the hilarity of the situation that came across my inbox. ![]() Every few months there exists a story worth writing about. While cheating happens every day, all day, on Zwift and other virtual cycling platforms. ![]()
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