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Guardian cycling correspondent. Covering the men's and women's 2024 Tour de France and also Paris 2024.

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2 years
You can name any renowned sporting arena but, to me, nothing compares to this...
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Amazing how you can magic up a new venue for the World Championships in two or three weeks, but it takes a decade to sort out a women’s Tour de France.....
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2 years
I love cycling but I love the planet too. Not good to see Tour officials or team personnel ‘putting the boot in’ - as Wiggins put it - to climate protestors
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5 years
Cycling, out of context. Lachlan Morton goes shopping.
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6 years
My best interview ever: Q"Did you build this bike for the Giro...?" A:"You think we ride like this every day...?"
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1 year
Remco on the Ineos rumours: "If I have to listen to this shit every day it's going to be a long Vuelta..."
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3 years
That was so much more than just a great bicycle race. It was a watershed moment for women’s cycling and for women’s sport.
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Jeremy Whittle
5 years
It's totally beyond my comprehension that you could be 22, full of hope and optimism, leave to race your bike in the morning and be gone forever by the afternoon. Too often cycling exacts far too high a price on the athletes.
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4 years
Quinn Simmons is free to profess his political beliefs. Equally @TrekSegafredo are free to decide whether those beliefs sit well with a brand whose men's team wore 'No To Racism' masks at the TDF in support of BLM and that also invests significantly in women's racing.
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5 years
Amazing how so many people on here are much better bike handlers than seven time GT winner, Chris Froome. You should all give him a masterclass when he's better.
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Jeremy Whittle
6 years
I really hope Jan Ullrich gets well. One of the things that really, really stinks is that Ullrich was shunned at the 2017 TDF Grand Depart, while so many of his peers from GenEPO were feted and lionised. That's just shit.
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1 year
Suddenly everyone is an in-race moto driver who’d never make a mistake in 25 years. They didn’t mean to do it you know! And they’ve been punished - and humiliated. Why not blame the crowd control? The lack of barriers? The placing of a bonus at the top of the climb?
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3 years
Second on the Ventoux, second in Laigueglia, third in Siena. And it’s only March 5. Bernal is back.
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2 years
Seriously the UCI need to call time on these absurd transfers. How can Grand Tours complain about environmental protestors while continuing to design totally inappropriate courses like this?
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ammattipyöräily
2 years
Final stage of 2023 Giro d'Italia in Rome instead of Trieste, according to 🇮🇹 media Trieste Prima. Riders will travel by plane after penultimate stage (Monte Lussari uphill-TT). Staff & race caravan will have more than 700 km transition by vehicles. #Giro
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Jeremy Whittle
5 years
Skills from Nibali as Fuglsang comes down today #TDF19
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Renaud Breban
5 years
#Replay 🎥 / 🇮🇹 Vincenzo Nibali (TBM) évite la chute... ce que ne fait pas 🇩🇰 Jakob Fuglsang (AST).
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2 months
Pogacar making the Giro look like one of those ‘Ride with the Pros!’ high-end holidays, where the ex-pro can’t resist dropping everyone on the climb back to the hotel
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3 years
The near-complete silence across cycling regarding @BouhanniNacer being racially abused is pretty shaming of the sport, it’s participants, and it’s stakeholders. Where is the outrage? Does anyone care??
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1 year
I’m told that Binian Girmay’s representatives were called by the Home Office this morning and told that he now has a UK visa. I’m also told that he applied on June 1.
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3 years
As you try to make sense of the Team Sky story, remember what we were all asked to buy into when it all started: it wasn't doctors, Jiffy bags, TUEs or Tramadol. It was transparency, professionalism, accountability and propriety — and the mood lighting on the team bus.
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3 years
Carapaz and Formolo playing dressing up
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2 years
Hard to take this morning's news in. My thoughts are with his family and with everyone who worked so successfully with Richard Moore on the Cycling Podcast.
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Jeremy Whittle
11 months
French Fashion designer Laure Severac "died after being hit by a car," not in "Wales cycling crash."
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BBC News (UK)
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French fashion designer Laure Severac died in Wales cycling crash
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Jeremy Whittle
5 years
Please do NOT perpetuate the myth that helmets will automatically save your life if you are hit by a vehicle. Safer driving saves lives, not helmets.
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
5 years
Crash victim wants wearing cycle helmets made compulsory
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
Busy day yesterday, with the Vuelta and TDF 2021 launch — a Super Sunday in fact. Meanwhile, in a quiet corner of Soho, had coffee with the Giro champion (pic by @pgoding )
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Jeremy Whittle
5 years
Woke up on a Monday morning in Paris in July 1997, to similar headlines - 'Just how many will he win? Will he beat the record? He's only a kid..' etc. Jan Ullrich never won another TDF. Talent isn't always enough: it's as much about how you cope with success as achieving it.
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Jeremy Whittle
2 years
For my Stateside friends... “Boris went to Eton, a sort of ‘Hogwarts for wankers’....”
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ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
2 years
The best yet from @JonathanPieNews with one caveat …. Don’t call him Boris, ever!
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6 years
That Froome ruling timeline again: December:"It must be resolved before the Giro.." May: "It could take two years..." June:"It's less than 50-50..." July: "It's sorted! Simples...have a great Tour!
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Jeremy Whittle
3 years
Blimey.....Lachlan Morton has arrived in Paris... and there’s still almost a week of the Tour to go!
@EFprocycling
EF Pro Cycling
3 years
Champagne showers on the Champs-Élysée! 🍾🥂 a fitting end to an incredible ride. #TheAltTour
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4 years
Pinot mastered the damned crosswinds and all the sodding roundabouts, only to falter in the mountains. Life ain't fair.
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Jeremy Whittle
9 years
The UCI have come down harder on R Porte for a wheel change than on Astana for years of proven mismanagement and malpractice.
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
Sprinters are always going to take risks. They accept that crashing is sometimes the consequence of those risks. They’re a tough, hard and ruthless breed, but they’re not cannon fodder. It’s time the governing body and race promoters stopped treating them as if they are.
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1 year
If his gears hadn’t slipped, I’m sure Mark Cavendish would have broken Eddy Merckx’s record in Bordeaux today. Polemics about Philipsen wandering around would have been washed away as everyone feted the record man. How many more chances will he get though?
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Jeremy Whittle
6 years
Very pleased to be joining the terrific team @guardian_sport and providing coverage of this year's Tour de France.
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Jeremy Whittle
3 years
I still don’t really understand all the ‘it was the rogue medic’ statements and displays of shock from people who knew the weight of the paint job on the bikes their riders used.
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
I try hard not to be biased (!) but I’ve definitely got a soft spot for this fella.
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3 years
PCR test in France, performed by a doctor: 39.28 euros. PCR test in Britain, performed by me in parked car: £200. #priceless
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Jeremy Whittle
3 years
Congratulations to Sam Bennett on removing himself from this poisonous environment.
@Cyclingnewsfeed
Cyclingnews
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Patrick Lefevere likens Sam Bennett’s move to Bora to 'women who return home after domestic abuse'
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2 years
Polarising day on the Tour. Do you write about the race or the idealistic kids getting labelled imbeciles? Driving to the hotel past the disappearing glaciers of Chamonix, I hope I got it right .
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
Record 235 kph wind speed at the top of the Ventoux tonight.
@MontVentouxDC
CIC - Mont Ventoux
4 years
Et meme 235km/h !
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Jeremy Whittle
7 years
Respecting the memory of Tom Simpson has nothing to do with condoning doping. He was somebody's husband, somebody's father, somebody's son.
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Jeremy Whittle
5 years
Unfortunate that Dr Freeman was unable to attend the GMC hearing this morning. Happily however, he is available for talks, podcasts or interviews about his book.
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Jeremy Whittle
2 years
Rotten day for @CaleyFretz and the cycling media. Let me add to the gloom by saying there won’t be another issue of Stelvio for me sadly (or indeed for anyone). Thanks to all the brilliant contributors and also to those who supported it. 😞
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Jeremy Whittle
6 years
Race to the Sun. Love it
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
So ok, I know it’s the issue du jour, but racism in cycling... why is it such an exclusively white sport? Why are there so few pro cyclists of colour? Look at other sports - cycling’s diversity is worse even than golf or tennis and that’s saying something....
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1 year
Attacking riders fuel attacking racing. Pinot was utterly magnificent today. Who cares if he didn’t win?
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
Nico Portal was well-liked by many not because of his nationality, his team or his successes, but because he was always friendly, open and upbeat. It goes a long way in life.
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Jeremy Whittle
3 years
Arrived in Brittany from the UK to cover the 2021 Tour de France. Took a lot of paperwork and patience to get here. Think it was worth it tho.
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Jeremy Whittle
5 years
So we need to ask who appointed all these people -Sutton, Leinders, Freeman. Who vetted them and managed them? How did BC and Sky miss the potential for it ending in this farce? This has all been great theatre but the real issue lies elsewhere.
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Jeremy Whittle
3 years
Stunned by the decision of @UCI_cycling to stage the Worlds in Rwanda, a regime of “enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, excessive use of force, unfair trials and restrictions on the right to freedom of expression.” (Amnesty International).
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7 years
Unsporting and shitty from Quintana, Pinot, Yates and Nibali not to show the race leader more respect. #Giro100
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
This from DQS: ‘An error was made in the laboratory with the sample that the individual gave yesterday, meaning they were taken for restesting this morning. The result of this second test has been returned as negative and we will continue to race as normal.’
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
This is like David Beckham leaving Real Madrid to join LA Galaxy.
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Jeremy Whittle
2 months
Very pleased to confirm that this summer, from late June to mid-August, I'll be covering the @LeTour the @Paris2024 Olympic Games and the @LeTourFemmes for @guardian_sport Please send washing powder.
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Jeremy Whittle
2 years
I’m pleased to confirm that next month I’ll be covering the 2022 men’s and women’s Tours de France for @guardian_sport . I’ve done a few now. I even had coffee with that Maurice Garin on the bus once.
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Jeremy Whittle
7 years
Ventoux, decorated for Christmas.
@hubertizac
Hubert IZAC
7 years
Pour le plaisir des yeux..... notre Mont VENTOUX (Vaucluse)
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You either know what’s going on so are complicit, or don’t know what’s going on and are therefore incompetent to lead or govern. Either way you have to go, surely?
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Jeremy Whittle
3 years
I was blessed and privileged to edit @Procycling_mag for several years. I loved the people and the mag. We published great writers, great images and often important groundbreaking stories. It’s loss leaves a vacuum in content on world cycling.
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This is just terrible. It is not fair, ethical or professional to stage races in which riders are subjected to such appalling risks. Adequate security is always about budget and professionalism. If that's not in place, then the race should not be held. 1/2
@dsmfirmpostnl
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5 years
After a crash at #PiccoloLombardia caused severe injuries, we have an update on @EdoLM 's condition. This news is extremely difficult for Edo, his family and teammates to process. Through it all, we will always remain #TogetherForEdo ❤ 💻
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1 year
Richard Freeman joins Geert Leinders in the banned doctors club. Both worked with Team Sky during their heyday. Leinders, now subject to a lifetime ban, worked as a consultant to the team.
@seaningle
Sean Ingle
1 year
UK Anti-Doping announce that former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman has received a four-year ban from sport following anti-doping rule violations for possession of a prohibited substance and tampering. British Cycling response below.
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3 years
What a perfect and beautiful riposte to all the knuckle-dragging naysayers. #ParisRoubaixFemmes
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3 years
Oh and here’s a shot of Lachlan Morton and his carefully controlled nutritional intake. Think this is like stage seven already (possibly).....
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3 years
Famous cyclist and Grand Tour winner takes the knee. It was always likely that this particular rider would be the first. This will baffle/annoy some but it should also shame them and their sponsors into similar action, which is what’s needed.
@taogeoghegan
Tao Geoghegan Hart
3 years
Action with @HBAxeon ⭕️x
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There’s never been so much money in professional cycling yet the precarious situations of the best professional journalists has recently been emphasised yet again. It’s both distressing and reprehensible that a sport founded on media growth should treat writers this way.
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Jeremy Whittle
7 years
Tom Simpson: died on Mont Ventoux, July 13 1967. Cycling should not forget.
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4 years
Roglic very gracious. Admitted he’d been in tears. Then asked about his new special TT helmet: “Obviously not so good, huh...”
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Jeremy Whittle
1 year
Pleased to confirm that I will be covering the 2023 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes for @guardian_sport and also podcasting for @radio_cycling .
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
Sports Personality of the Year.
@BBCBreakfast
BBC Breakfast
4 years
🥳 He's off on his final laps of the #walkwithtom challenge! @captaintommoore #BBCBreakfast More here:
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When I was working on ‘Ventoux,’ I had a great chat with Jean-Louis Pages, the charming, and funny, former ‘director of sites’ for the Tour. Here’s what he said when I suggested putting in a double ascent.....
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3 years
My first TdF. I spoke to Greg that morning. He wasn’t happy, perplexed both with his form and with the state of the sport. At the time I didn’t understand. I do now.
@mission753
cycling archives
3 years
Greg Lemond heads out for the stage start of the 1994 Tour de France, Brighton. (photo thanks to @chikkinnugger )
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3 years
Happy Christmas everyone. May the wind always be cross/tail and your lateral flow negative x
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
Have a great weekend.
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“It’s increasingly apparent that the UCI under Lappartient are at a crossroads. They can tinker with their sport, or they can actively promote change on sportswashing, racism, gender equality and environmental impact.” My story for @lacourseentete
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3 years
It's official: the appointment of trade envoy Lord Beefy Botham confirms that Britain is now as corrupt, laughable and chaotic as Italy under Berlusconi, only with shittier weather and hardly any truffles.
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Jeremy Whittle
5 years
Warning: strong language (understandable though)
@OutOfCycling
Cycling out of context
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6 years
There are six weeks between the Giro 2018 ending and the start of the 2018 Tour, 20th anniversary of the Festina Affair. If Froome starts the TDF, case unresolved with accompanying media frenzy, you really have to question what has been learned, if anything, in those 20 years.
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7 years
Covered GTs since 1993. Never seen a collective performance to compare with Sky in @lavuelta - that includes Banesto, Telekom, Mapei, USP.
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So all the talk from only a few weeks ago about rider safety, minimising risks of injury, organisers taking more responsibility, etc etc, has clearly already been forgotten. Can’t blame the riders for being angry. That stage was farcical. It was also totally avoidable.
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4 years
While other sports have made an effort to acknowledge the BLM movement, at the Tour de France, it has been business as usual — zero recognition. That's why I wrote in June that the peloton of whiteness must now embrace change.
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6 years
Sagan on his crash, after visiting the medical team at the Tour: "I flew in to the forest and I hit a big rock with my arse."
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
Why is the Tour (and WT cycling in general) so silent on Black Lives Matter, when every other sport has acted? Reza, Cookson, Brailsford and Stetina on the Tour’s detached stance
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Jeremy Whittle
1 year
The view from Chamonix
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6 years
Trying to understand Froome's extraordinary ride today isn't easy. The inevitable scepticism is all about context, and history. You can't escape it. Neither - fairly or unfairly - can he.
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Jeremy Whittle
6 years
Been several near-misses for Simon Yates before this @lavuelta - and not just the 2018 @giroditalia . Also won the hardest climbing stage of this year's Paris-Nice and should have held on but lost by four secs. Definitely not an overnight success.
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I think those mocking the peloton for schoolboy cheating, less than a day after Gino Mader’s horror crash, are pretty classless. Pro racing certainly has its fair share of embarrassing behaviour but it is also brimming with sportsmanship, courage and fearlessness.
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Jeremy Whittle
5 years
I'm afraid this week's dismal revelations on the dire culture at BC/Sky have long been brewing. Too many people refused to listen though.
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
Comedy gold😭
@itvcycling
ITV Cycling
4 years
The 1998 Tour de France was dubbed 'The Race of Disgrace' due to the Festina doping scandal. @friebos returned to the scene in Gare de Corrèze where the infamous scandal became clear.
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
If you needed to show the uninitiated a suitably stunning image of the grace, beauty and inspirational quality of road racing, this would be hard to beat.
@laflammerouge16
La Flamme Rouge
4 years
Sick shot. #Imola2020
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This sleazy, abusive and archaic attitude is grim. Pro cycling still has a major diversity problem with gender, race and inclusivity and it's something that really needs to be squashed.
@roadcc
road.cc
4 years
Live blog: Cycling world condemns comments made by Belgian journalist Sven Spoormakers about the clothing of a female reporter. When challenged he replied: "If I would interview a female athlete with my balls out, you'd be joking about it too". #cycling
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Jeremy Whittle
3 years
Surely discretion and common sense applies? A rider tossing a bottle to a bunch of school kids in a village is different to a rider throwing a bottle into a ravine in a deserted national park — isn't it??
@Cyclingnewsfeed
Cyclingnews
3 years
Michael Schär kicked out of Tour of Flanders for littering
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Jeremy Whittle
3 months
Richard Virenque, the rider at the heart of the 1998 doping scandal that inspired the creation of WADA, was a torch bearer for the Olympic Flame in Toulon.
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
Wanna know more about the remarkable @seppkuss ? Here’s my interview and profile from @Procycling_mag
@Cyclingnewsfeed
Cyclingnews
4 years
Sepp Kuss: I'm always going to be a work in progress Full @Procycling_mag interview 👇
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Jeremy Whittle
3 years
Four month suspended sentence. Enough. Now leave her alone.
@lequipe
L'ÉQUIPE
3 years
Quatre mois avec sursis requis contre la spectatrice qui avait provoqué une chute collective sur le Tour de France
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
Can this really be how it ends for Cavendish?
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
84h 27mins 32 secs of racing. An all-star team, wholly dedicated to your success. All that work, all that sacrifice, just to lose, by 59 seconds.
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Jeremy Whittle
4 years
30 years ago, I gave up trying to be an architect, and tried to become a journalist. Today, I closed the circle.
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