"It may have started earlier, but it came to a head in the middle of the night in the middle of London in the middle of last November, when former Tour de France green jersey winner Sam Bennett woke up with a weird sensation in his chest. His heart rate was unusually high for somebody who had been asleep a few moments earlier, let alone for a professional athlete with a resting heart rate in the low 40s."
"Accustomed to noticing every sensation in his body from a lifetime of training it, resting it, fuelling it and cajoling it, Sam knew something was off."
Sam Bennett awoke in the middle of the night in London last November with a strange sensation in his chest and an unusually high heart rate. The elevated heart rate was notable because he had been asleep moments earlier and typically maintains a resting rate in the low 40s. Years of professional cycling had made Bennett highly attuned to subtle bodily changes, so the sudden abnormal readings were immediately concerning. The episode represented an escalation of symptoms that may have had earlier onset and warranted attention given the demands on elite athletes.
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