Competing in the America’s Cup has made Thery Schir come full circle.
After attending a sailing school on the banks of Lake Geneva, he discovered a love for cycling. He competed at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 on two wheels for Switzerland before transitioning back to become a cyclor for the Swiss Alinghi Red Bull Racing team in the America’s Cup.
As an experienced Olympic athlete, he found many similarities between the two sports.
“It actually didn’t differ that much in terms of physical performance. I would say you try to be an endurance athlete but still with a strong capacity to deliver a high power output,” he told Sail World.
“The biggest difference for me was to gain weight and power. For a normal cyclist, it’s usually not very good, but for a cyclor it’s good to be heavy. The main difference is that on a road bike you have to carry your own weight. On the boat, it’s all about pure power. Nothing relative to your body weight.”
To add an extra layer of complexity to maintaining weight as a cyclor, athletes can lose up to three litres of water on a gruelling race day, that seperate the sport from anything he has experienced previously as an Olympian.
“The heat management will be a key component of the performance on the boat. For a 30-minute race you really need to control your hydration from the morning to the evening to make sure you’re not running out of energy. So, ice jackets, ice socks and cold baths after sailing!”
Crews are competing in the Louis Vuitton Cup from 29 August to 7 October, to battle for a place in the 37th America’s Cup Match, which takes place from 12 to 27 October.
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Publish date : 2024-09-11 03:12:00
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