If he did this on the first day of the Tour de France, yes, they are the same thing. But if he is pumping fresh blood on the ten or twenty day of the tour,

If he did this on the first day of the Tour de France, yes, they are the same thing. But if he is pumping fresh blood on the ten or twenty day of the tour, it's like you take a few months in the mountain recouping before you run the next day race. Do you think it's OK if one cyclist is running stages day after day while the other cyclist has a week to recoup between stages to recoup? Is this even the same race?