Max O2 records

Aftenposten reports this morning that one of the young skiers on the
norwegian team, Espen Harald Bjerke, had extremely high max O2 numbers a
couple of weeks ago, when the entire team was tested in Lillehammer:

He stopped at 96 ml O2/kg bodyweight, which (according to the article)
is identical to the highest level Bjørn Dæhlie ever achieved.

Isn't this the highest that have ever been reported in any (human) sport?

Terje
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Terje Mathisen wrote:
Aftenposten reports this morning that one of the young skiers on the
norwegian team, Espen Harald Bjerke, had extremely high max O2 numbers a
couple of weeks ago, when the entire team was tested in Lillehammer:

He stopped at 96 ml O2/kg bodyweight, which (according to the article)
is identical to the highest level Bjørn Dæhlie ever achieved.

Isn't this the highest that have ever been reported in any (human) sport?

No, Marco Pantanis 100 can be the result of "spicie food" but that the
highest value i have heard about

Janne G

Janne G wrote:


No, Marco Pantanis 100 can be the result of "spicie food" but that the
highest value i have heard about

Who is Marco Pantani; a base ball player?

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He was a professional doper who raced bicycles.
A fraud in a sport filled with frauds.Sadly.
Fitzgerald

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Janne G wrote:


No, Marco Pantanis 100 can be the result of "spicie food" but that the
highest value i have heard about

Who is Marco Pantani; a base ball player?

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Kirkenes

FITZGERALD wrote:

He was a professional doper who raced bicycles.
A fraud in a sport filled with frauds.Sadly.
Fitzgerald

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Janne G wrote:


No, Marco Pantanis 100 can be the result of "spicie food" but that the
highest value i have heard about

Who is Marco Pantani; a base ball player?

See above, a well-known abuser of 'spicie food', i.e. doping.

Re. people with high Max O2:

My wife hosted a little reunion of coworkers (from a now-defunct
company) last night, one of them (her former boss) was Rolf Thorsen.

Rolf has three world championships and two olympic silvers in rowing
(1988 and 1992), but he is/was also a pretty good skier, particularly on
courses with a lot of double-poling. (I wonder why?)

He still exudes a lot of the confidence you can notice in _very_ fit
athletes. :-)

Terje

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Terje Mathisen wrote:

He still exudes a lot of the confidence you can notice in _very_ fit
athletes. :-)

That can be very annoying because it tends to strip one of the
confidence that one feels as a relatively highly fit hobby athlete
amidst average or sedentary persons:-)


Anders