Eating’s cheating and the peculiarity of male professional road cycling
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Itself a unique outlier when related to for-profit sport, contemporary professional male road cycling also provides a subject that can be framed as an outsider. Where most high-performance sports applaud expressions of visible musculinity, the peloton demarcates power not through strength-as-observable but rather the absence thereof. Through an inversion of meaning, the most dominant are the most diminished. Here, those who embody the greatest qualitative and quantitative representations of success exhibit a physique more akin to a pre-pubescent boy than chiseled Adonis. Through a critique of capital and the sport’s normalizing of disordered eating, the work centres the pro male road cyclist as an under-regarded but noteworthy sociality. Of broad value to the fields of applied, physical, and social science, the work tracks how those, if to succeed, are compelled to take up a different depiction of the elite athlete. When weighed against others, this cohort’s professional relation to power, food, and gender interrupts certain expectations, constructions, and constitutions that signal the need for such a sociological analysis of cycling’s current practices and their impacts.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".