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In Sosenka's case, it was that doing 150 laps of the track was going to be tiring due to the acceleration ("g-force") through the corners. They calculated* that the extra drag of nearly straight arms would be offset by the ability to hold a better body position throughout the whole hour. Can't speak for the other bloke, maybe he has a disability.
*It seems that they calculated a lot of other things too, it was 2005 after all.