11 things we've learnt this week

1. Sir Bradley Wiggins will retire after competing in the Six Days of Ghent – Ghent being the city in which he was born.
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2. Mount Evans in Colorado is 4.307m high and the Col Collective has climbed it.
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3. road.cc readers’ favourite cycling food is… cake.
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4. Paul Smith has launched a watch that takes inspiration from the design of stopwatches used to keep time in the velodrome.
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5. You can buy a bike that formerly belonged to Olympic Champion Joanna Rowsell Shand for under £800.
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6. Annemiek van Vleuten, the Dutch rider who crashed while leading the women’s Olympic road race, doesn’t think the final descent on which she fell was unusually dangerous.
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7. It’s possible to ride a wall of death at the Olympic velodrome.
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8. The Brompton factory produces 150 folding bikes every 24 hours. 
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9. Chris Froome has a peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak) of 84 mL kg^-1 min^-1 and he performs best in hot and humid conditions.
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10. Germany’s Kristina Vogel believes the British riders have been ‘cannon fodder’ in international competitions between London 2012 and Rio 2016.
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11. Laura Trott is Britain’s most successful ever female Olympian with four golds.
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