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AlgarveCycling
Pedaling that much quicker doesn't make a difference. It just means he's in an easier gear. Maybe he meant a higher cadence allows him to accelerate or jump quicker? That doesn't make a lot of sense the way it's written.
He's also said this in an older interview:
“You’d be surprised at my watts,” Cavendish says.
“Most people who say that their maximum is 1,600 watts won’t put out 1,600. My maximum is 1,580, and that is a lot. Not many guys will do more than a hundred more than that. But no one will ever get close to that in a race after 200 kilometres,” he continues.
“I put out 1,490 today in training, on bad form, but I won’t put that out in a race. It’s not watts, and it’s not just my frontal area in a sprint. It’s everything beforehand. How I ride in the peloton. My pedalling action. How I sit. I save so much energy for the finish.”
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/m...-interview-152