Originally Posted by
carleton
I agree.
Victoria Pendleton has a noticeable imbalance in her pedal stroke when she's coming into the final stretch of a Keirin/Sprint and she has to fight to win. She seems to muscle-over with her right leg and it makes her upper body do a rhythmic asymmetric wobble that is similar to what one would do in a one-legged drill.
You can't see it in all of her videos. Maybe she has changed it on the latter years of her career. But, I've seen it. Find a video of her having to fight to win (like coming around a fast opponent to win a keirin) and you'll see it.
My teammate says I do something similar; I think it is common to most sprint athletes. Watching football, you can certainly see a good number of running backs and receivers who, when they are really accelerating, have an extreme asymmetry to their stride.
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