Abrahamsen 🇳🇴 got over a thousand more votes than Carapaz 🇪🇨 and the jury still gives it to Carapaz 🇪🇨... What's the point of the vote, then? 😂
#TDF2024
Apparently, if you can see two people hugging, you're left-brained, and if you can see a dinosaur, you're right-brained. What do you see in the mountain?
La Vuelta a España 2023 🇪🇸
The third and final Grand Tour of the season is, as per usual, the most brutal looking.
4 flat stages, 2 flat with "high altitude finales", 6 hilly, 7 mountainous l, 1 TTT and 1 ITT.
In ⛓️ is every stage, jerseys and startlist.
#LaVuelta23
Pogačar 🇸🇮... Tour and 6 stages, Giro and 6 stages, LBL, Catalunya and 4 stages, Strade and a MSR podium.
Evenepoel 🇧🇪... 2x Olympic gold, 3rd Tour with white and 1 stage, 7th Dauphiné 1 stage, DNF Basque, 2nd PN 1 stage, Algarve 1 stage and Figueira.
I'd say Pogačar... Easily
Le Tour de France 🇫🇷 2023!!
An exciting looking route with an exciting lineup of riders. Hopefully we have a good battle abd the GC isn't decided by S9 again.
In thread is entire route + major climbs as well as full startlist as it comes in.
#TDF2023
🚴🐎 Arden Challenge in 🇧🇪:
Lars Daniels (
#80
): "I do indeed have some experience with horses. As a little boy I grew up at a horse riding school, and today I still go along to jumping events and I do have some friends who still ride horses often." (HLN)
Reading the official Tour de France race guide and the interview with Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰...
Found this littlw paragraph about Primož Roglič 🇸🇮 interesting.
I had no idea this was the relationship between the two of them.
#TDF2023
10 years ago (yesterday), my first
@letour
stage win on La Planche des Belles Filles.
A decade of unimaginable achievements, challenges and overcoming has followed.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout x 💛
Richard Carapaz 🇪🇨 pulls out of the Worlds after travelling home to Ecuador to be with his daughter who had to have emergency surgery in hospital.
Thankfully all went well but she still requires care. All the best to her, Richard and the rest of his family.
#Zurich2024
Omg!!! Superstar XC skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo and superstar biathlete Johannes Thingnes Boe both did the RVV recon with the Uno-X guys today!! All my favourite sports coliding!!
#RVV23
Mark Cavendish 🇮🇲🇬🇧 made his debut today for Astana at the Muscat Classic 🇴🇲.
He IS wearing Oakley Kato sunglasses.
His team's sunglasses sponsor is Scicon.
Pogačar 🇸🇮 asked what Van der Poel 🇳🇱 is up to after this... He said he's off to Dubai! Hope it's dried out!
Then to Bardet 🇫🇷, talking about the Giro, Pogačar 🇸🇮 said "ah it'll be fun, come on!"... Romain didn't look so sure 😂
#LBL
🗣️Fred Wright on Gino (1/3)
“Its been f***ing awful. I can’t really describe the feelings. That just doesn’t happen. Its been nice to focus on something, the last few days have been really hard. Just puts everything into a whole new perspective.
#NatRoadChamps
Degenkolb 🇩🇪 crash:
Philipsen 🇧🇪 was central.
Degenkolb 🇩🇪 moves to the gravel.
Van der Poel 🇳🇱 launches move with no shout for Philipsen 🇧🇪.
Philipsen 🇧🇪 moves to gravel.
Nobody at fault, just a racing incident.
Maybe Van der Poel 🇳🇱 could've gone left...🤷♂️
#ParisRoubaix
This has since been confirmed.
This is the most UK crap I have ever seen. They're professional athletes for god sake. What is the possible reason for the visas to be denied?
Honestly, I find myself being so embarrassed that I'm British. Utter shambles.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS
GCN understands that
@GrmayeBiniam
, alongside three of his teammates for the
@CyclingWorlds
, have been denied visas to enter the UK. This has left the Eritrean squad in limbo, ahead of
#GlasgowScotland2023
.
Read more below ⤵️
The Ineos Grenadiers mini Vuelta nightmare
15. Arensman 🇳🇱 IGD +21"
22. Bernal 🇨🇴 IGD +47"
23. Thomas 🇬🇧 IGD S.T.
Not the ideal start. Not game over, but not ideal.
#LaVuelta23
I'm extremely pleased to say that I'll be at the Tour de France Femmes 🇫🇷 with Human Powered Health as press and social media manager! Extremely excited to get over there and get to work!
Such a great relationship between these two champion!
Looks like Thomas 🇬🇧 WILL be wearing pink tomorrow and not leaving it a day before taking it officially from Evenepoel 🇧🇪.
Perhaps the rules have changed from when Froome 🇬🇧 didn't wear yellow after Martin 🇩🇪 DNSd
#Giro
Remco is gonna have sleepless nights going into those gravel stages...
However, he is right. Races like Strade, Tro Bro, GW, Paris-Tours and Rutland are specifically for gravel as well as a whole gravel series!
Why is it needed in GTs?
🇧🇪 Remco Evenepoel after seeing the
#TDF2024
course:
🗣️ "There are specific events and championships for gravel racing. Why do they need to add such stages to a Grand Tour? I don't think that's necessary."
(HLN)
Don't get me wrong, I really like Roglič 🇸🇮.
But!
I just wanted Thomas 🏴 to win.
He's such a good guy who nobody has a bad name for.
He put in a superb ride over the 3 weeks.
But Roglič 🇸🇮 had a point to prove on this ITT and boy, did he prove it.
#Giro
News!!
Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 will race the Tour of Poland 🇵🇱 from the 12th to the 18th of August.
A race where he really burst onto the scene in 2019 with his first pro win on stage 6 and taking the lead, which he lost a day later.
Not too much rest for the Dane, then.
I'm seeing a LOT of disappointed reviews for
#TDFUnchained
...
Main issues I've taken from Twitter
- Awful commentary
- No domestique interviews
- No Pogačar interviews
- No handshake (this is mad)
- Odd angles used to creat rivalries
Is this correct?
What should Girmay's new target be? I think he has an incredible chance of winning the worlds in Australia, especially with support from the likes of Tesfatsion, Kudus, Mulubrham, Berhane, Ghebreigzabhier and others
It's time we start treating politicians who break the rules like the criminals they are.
Their crimes are WORSE than anyone sitting in a UK prison cell!
#Fpolitics
: Andrew Bridgen Lobbying scandal.
Which is your least favourite Monument?
For me, that question is easy. It is Milan-Sanremo. It's offensively dull with 10 minutes of action.
This is my ranking:
1. Paris-Roubaix 🇫🇷
2. Tour of Flanders 🇧🇪
3. Liège-Bastogne-Liège 🇧🇪
4. Il Lombardia 🇮🇹
5. Milan-Sanremo 🇮🇹
The audacity of the UAE car to tell Küng 🇨🇭 to calm down after they blocked his sprint with the car 🤦♂️
Surely that's a yellow card, hefty fine and maybe even the car getting thrown off the race... Surely.
#LaVuelta24
Vingegaard 🇩🇰 🗣
"I think, on a day like today, with what happened in Annecy, it doesn't really matter with cycling.
"My thoughts are with all the families."
An emotional interview from the new leader. Of course, we all share those thoughts from him.
#Dauphin
é
Sprinters confirmed for
#TDF2024
:
Philipsen🇧🇪ADC
Cavendish🇬🇧AST
De Lie🇧🇪LTD
Van Aert🇧🇪TVL
Bennett🇮🇪DAT
Démare🇫🇷ARK
Bauhaus🇩🇪TBV
Coquard🇫🇷COF
Van den Berg🇳🇱EFE
Thijssen🇧🇪IWA
Pedersen🇩🇰LTK
Gaviria🇨🇴MOV
Jakobsen🇳🇱DFP
Groenewegen🇳🇱JAY
Ackermann🇩🇪IPT
Kristoff🇳🇴UXM
Not a bad field!
(3/3)
“Shame not to win for him today. It was what I was thinking on the last lap, like, this is for him, but yeah we’ve got Sunday. I need to show something. It has put everything into perspective. It’s only bike racing. Just got to enjoy the ride for Gino.”
#NatRoadChamps