Peloton Peloton In a road bicycle race, the peloton (from French, originally meaning 'platoon') is the main group or pack of riders. Riders in a group save energy by riding close (drafting or slipstreaming) near (particularly behind) other riders. The reduction in drag is dramatic; in the middle of a well-developed group drag can be reduced to as little as 5%-10%. Exploitation of this potential energy saving leads to very complex cooperative and competitive interactions between riders and teams in race tactics. The term is also used to refer to the community of professional cyclists in general, as in 'the professional
Viasat Sport as of January 7, 2009 Viasat Sport Viasat Sport (Viasport in Norway) is the common brand of several sports channels targeting the Nordic, CIS and Eastern European countries owned by Nordic Entertainment Group and Baltic countries owned by Providence Equity Partners. Viasat Sport is also the name of one TV-channel in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the Baltics. Its main competitors are CMore Sport and Eurosport. "Viasat Sport" was launched as a pan-Nordic channel in 1999. In January 2002, a dedicated Danish channel, "Viasat Sport Denmark", launched and replaced the pan-Nordic version in Denmark. 1 February 2004, Viasat launched two