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Podcast: Bikerumor Podcast
Episode: 065 - What’s the environmental impact of pro cycling races?
Description: The Tour of Luxembourg is a relatively small multi-day race on the World Tour calendar, but it attracts some big teams. That combination made it the perfect test bed for measuring the environmental impact of a professional cycling race.
Which is more complex than it sounds. From hotel rooms to travel, volunteers to food service, course marking to start/finish staging, there's a LOT that goes into a major event like this.
I spoke with Tour de Lux president Andy Schleck and nZero founder Adam Kramer to see just how they went about doing it...