Forget about comparing height and weight, the only thing Olympic cyclists are interested in is how their tree-trunk thighs stack up against their competitors.
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Here's the picture of "Mr Thigh" Robert Forstemann, complete with bulging veins and twig lower legs.
New Zealand cyclist Greg Henderson posted this photo on Twitter at the start of the London Games, showing Germans Andre Greipel and Forstemann who dropped their pants to show their cycling weapons.
Forstemann was declared the winner of the "quad off" with his monster thighs dwarfing 2008 Tour Down Under winner Greipel.
And it's no wonder his nickname on the Olympic website is "Mr Thigh".
Henderson tweeted: "You thought Greipel has a big set of legs. There was a quad off in the German camp today. Greipel lost." The photo has since been retweeted more than 1500 times.
The Telegraph in London said the photo "makes Forstemann's thighs look like a python slowly digesting a pig".
Road cyclists usually have a slender build with the sprint track cyclists boasting monster thighs to give them the power and speed to get around the velodrome.
Forstemann's thighs get him through numerous events.
In London he is competing in the team and individual sprint at the velodrome and will also race in the mountain bike event.
