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@matildaprice_

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Cycling journalist โ€ข Women's sport obsessive โ€ข ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

Bristol / Reading
Joined July 2007
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@matildaprice_
Tilda
2 months
The UCI collabed on the reel of Julian Bernard and then fined him ๐Ÿ˜ญ
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4 years
@93lNSOMNIA it could be because he never took lizzo as his plus one to a close friends small wedding lmao
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3 years
I think it takes a lot to do what Chris Froome has done at this Tour, and stay positive and humble throughout
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7 months
Isaac del Toro says that he dropped out the peloton in the final 10km in order to test his legs with some stress ahead of tomorrow. Basically, he was bored and wanted to make himself chase back on. Fair enough
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3 years
Julian Alaphilippe was questionable for the Tour because his son has just been born, but clearly did one week of parenting and thought yeah no I will go away for three and a half weeks
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1 year
No bike racing on a dead planet
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2 months
With the GCN website now officially no more, I'd just like to say how I proud I was of what we did there, and honestly losing that stings worse than losing my job right now. We weren't trying to reinvent the wheel, but we made a good product with passion, talent and expertise.
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2 years
1 like = 1 sympathy ๐Ÿฅบ
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2 months
I try not to worry about it too too much but tiny number of women involved in Tour de France coverage is really quite absurd
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4 years
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3 years
Pello Bilbao: trying to give a serious interview about the raid and doping in cycling Tadej:
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2 years
A year ago I made a hard decision between some stability or taking the plunge with freelancing. Fast forward to now, I've just come back from the first TdF Femmes, have written + podcasted all over the place and had fun doing it - nice to feel like I did the right thing ๐Ÿฅน
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2 years
Do you watch men's cycling? If yes, why? Is everything okay at home?
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2 months
No but why on earth WOULD Jonas work with two riders who are more punchy than him and are already ahead of him in GC and would take more time today ๐Ÿ˜ญ why would he do that pls explain!
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1 month
I just don't think I'd ever love someone enough to have their baby on altitude camp
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3 months
On the overnight train to Rome with the Giro trophy aka all my dreams have come true
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1 year
This is fairly ridiculous to be honest. He has NO UCI POINTS, is a completely unranked rider in the MTB, but gets to move up the grid just because?
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Hendrik Lemmer
1 year
After some pressure from big boys at the UCI and media van der Poel are starting in the 5th row in the xco. Bending rules for stars. But this gives him a far better shot at the podium. They wanted him to start front row but the rest wasn't happy #GlasgowScotland2023
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12 days
Yanina Kuskova rode most of the #TDFF2024 entirely alone and finished higher on GC than all the riders from WorldTour teams Roland and Human Powered Health
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3 years
Telling people "sorry I can't do that, I'm working the Tour de France" is the best feeling I've had all year hehe
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1 year
Geraint leading out Cavendish makes me want to wear a Wiggo t-shirt and read Dave Brailsford's book and talk about how Tour de Yorkshire is the best race in the world
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2 years
Rogliฤ heard we were cancelling British things in respect for the Queen and decided Fred was next ๐Ÿ˜”
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1 year
After a rewarding two years freelancing, I'm very excited to have started a new role at @gcntweet this week. It was time for a change so really looking forward to doing something new and different. And annoying @dnlbenson on a full time basis ๐Ÿšจ
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1 year
Personally I think Evenepoel is just THE rider. Unpredictable, not unbeatable, races to win, speaks his mind, shows his emotions, fuelled by pride rather than stifled by it. I like it!
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3 years
Alex Dowsett is one cyclist I would pretty confidently say is actually just a really good person
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3 years
"Biggest win of his career" is an insult to Tour Series Durham
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4 months
Pidcock was not the first British winner of Amstel and Stevie is not the first British winner of Flรจche. Just to be clear on that fact
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11 months
Jumbo-Visma women's team started this year with a female general manager, sports director and two female coaches Will end the year with all four of those women gone, and their roles - seemingly - replaced by men for 2024
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1 year
Really think Dani Christmas is the best women's cycling pundit around. Her recent experience in both the peloton and the team car means she just knows absolutely everything inside out - riders, tactics, rules, her insight is unmatched
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3 years
I'm writing a piece about the financial aspects of trying to become a professional cyclist and honestly we're never going to make this sport more diverse if we don't sort that out
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There is a way to support Urลกka ลฝigart and her Olympics situation without belittling the two riders who were selected. Eugenia Bujak and Urลกka Pintar are decorated, consistent and experienced riders - just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they are nobodies!
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11 months
me when i only cry 4 times in a day instead of 5
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3 years
There are two types of people in this world and it all comes down to whether you prefer Paris-Nice or Tirreno-Adriatico
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1 year
Happy Pride month! ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Cycling is the one industry that could maybe try a little rainbow-washing, but just because the sport won't mention Pride this month doesn't mean we're not here, and LGBTQ+ people are not invisible ๐Ÿซถ
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2 years
How has this not made it to @OutOfCycling yet
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1 year
Female riders being called spoiled for, er, not wanting to be hit by cars? Extremely basic levels of safety shouldn't be the reserve of the Tour.
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Mathew Mitchell
1 year
Wow ๐Ÿ˜ฎ "What is happening is that the girls have requirements that are not in line with their level. 'imagine that they are on the Tour de France and that all the roads must be closed, that everything must be locked. But in France, you cannot do that"
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3 years
Normally I would not support Luke Rowe telling people to "go fuck themselves" on Instagram stories but in this case he is right
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2 years
Me: today I will see Wout :) Wout: crashes in front of me
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3 months
Tadej Pogaฤar has a baby Hulk sticker on his handlebars every day, on both the road bike and TT bike. He brought the stickers from home, apparently ๐ŸงŒ
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2 years
Time to end the Wout slander once and for all. He is such an asset to Jumbo's climbers and their GC efforts
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9 months
A piece I've been wanting to write for a while. A big thank you to Geraint, Wout and Toms for their honest and open answers to questions I'm sure they're not asked much! ๐Ÿ“ The experience of fatherhood as a professional cyclist
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1 year
I don't want to see any "first British winner of Strade Bianche" tweets. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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2 months
More to say on this later, but personal news: โœจ๏ธ I'm going to be freelancing again from next week โœจ๏ธ If you need a women's cycling expert, who also spent the last year running all the M+W racing output on a super cool site, pls say hello! ๐Ÿ‘‹
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5 months
It's crazy how much this modern era values one-day racing over the Tour de France. Pogaฤar has lost two Tours but he's the better rider because he can win Classics. Wout van Aert has done insane things at the Tour but he's the worse rider because he's not won Flanders/Roubaix
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7 months
The tradition of other athletes giving new Red Bull riders their helmets is my favourite part of the whole thing
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Zoe Backstedt
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The one day I didnโ€™t wear waterproof mascara ๐Ÿฅน๐Ÿคฉ ๐ŸŽฅ @GoZwift @redbull @RedBullUK @WMNcycling @Bespoke_M
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3 years
On days like today it's good to remember that treating women's cycling like a serious sport and properly analysing and criticising the racing is exactly what it deserves. It's better than just always saying "well wasn't that great!"
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4 months
Attila Valter has just wandered over to the race ambulance before the stage even starts. Some sort of curse at Visma He said to me this morning "it's so grotesque we just have to laugh"
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2 months
There is also genuinely not a shortage of women who are experts, by the way, they are just not being afforded opportunities, and that's a problem
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2 months
I try not to worry about it too too much but tiny number of women involved in Tour de France coverage is really quite absurd
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1 year
Are we genuinely now only satisfied if Grand Tours are decided on the final day??? Oh "the Tour is decided now" it's stage 16! It's pretty normal for the GC to be taking a pretty strong shape now!
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11 months
Aware it's only a day, but the Tour de France Femmes being seven days instead of eight in 2024 is still mildly disappointing.
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2 years
Quick tip for men: just send her any picture of Primoลพ Rogliฤ and Wout van Aert with the caption "us"
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1 year
If you're bored by the Tour I feel like it's your own fault for watching it instead of the Giro
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2 years
Wishing everyone who pipes up about mountain biking despite knowing nothing about it a very good 'shut the hell up'
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2 years
Amazing how many people are doing what is quite a trek up to Markstein for the finish today ๐Ÿฅบ People WILL make an effort for women's cycling if you make it happen #TDFF
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3 years
I've had an awful day but Pogi hugging Jonas's leg did make me smile
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ITV Cycling
3 years
The respectful rivalry between these two ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿค #TDF2021
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3 years
Idk how people can live their lives thinking there's nothing wrong with the culture in procycling when one of the most high-profile team managers is allowed to be overtly misogynistic, stigmatise mental illness and publicly bully his riders and it's just fine.
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11 months
Of all the wins you want to see live, that was one of them ๐Ÿฅน๐Ÿ˜ญ Think everyone is very pleased for Kasia. My report of what, broadly, happened:
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3 years
Something about this has actually made me quite emotional this morning. Women like Lizzie and teams like Trek are really changing the game
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Velo
3 years
Lizzie Deignan won't be racing in 2022 as she's expecting her second child later this year, but the Paris-Roubaix Femmes winner has extended her contract with Trek-Segafredo until 2024.
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6 months
Craziest stat of the day is that Marianne Vos has never done Omloop before
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2 months
It is extremely questionable that they are simultaneously promoting this and saying it damages the image of the sport. Which is it? (BTW I think having a rule which says you can't get off and make the TT look silly is fair but yanno)
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3 years
๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š So great to be part of a team supporting not only women's cycling but new writers like me and Issy too!
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Cyclingnews
3 years
Cyclingnews welcomes Ronald and Price as regular contributors to our ever-growing women's cycling coverage
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2 years
Drinking champagne and having a picnic on the Planche, cycling journalism is so hard
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2 years
Okay here it is, from the most definitive source (me) โœจ๏ธ 2023 women's (road) cycling ins and outs โœจ๏ธ
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2 years
You can say what you like about the GC field in Scandinavia but doing the Giro-Tour-Scandi triple, taking 6th, 7th and 1st is huge from CUL
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2 years
AVV: "I also want to make it really clear with that, that sometimes my colleagues get comments that they should train as much as I do, but thatโ€™s not possible. Thatโ€™s something thatโ€™s just a process with years." #TDFF
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3 years
Me! For Cyclingnews! Woohoo
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Cyclingnews
3 years
Julia Soek to join Drops-Le Col as sports director in 2022 Dutch rider to take on DS role after retiring at the end of the season
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1 year
First time working at a men's Grand Tour. Still seems weird to me that I've made this my job, but I'm not complaining :)
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6 years
If you think Sky dominance ruins cycling, you truly do not watch enough cycling
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1 year
He was right
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3 years
We said goodbye to our Dylan yesterday. We were lucky to have him for nearly 14 years but honestly I wish he could have stayed forever. Love you pal x
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2 years
Men's cycling fans can't cope with one team winning two races on a weekend? You don't even understand what women's cycling fans have gone through with the Classics
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3 years
I love this scene in The Notebook
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ITV Cycling
3 years
Two World Champs ๐Ÿ’›๐ŸŒˆ #TDF2021
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2 years
Marlen Reusser is one of the most low-key people ever. After her TDFF stage win she came to the press room and said "well, life is the same before and after" and today she is "satisfied" and "quite happy" with the bronze medal. I respect it
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1 year
I'm late to the party, but we launched a website! The last few months have been a big professional challenge and step up in responsibility for me (she's an editor๐Ÿ’…) but I'm lucky to have the support of @dnlbenson and a fab team Now the real work begins. See you at the Vuelta!
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I think it's worth saying - and I think many don't realise - how many women in cycling who are online deal with out-of-the-blue messages from riders, staff, other fans etc. It's happened to most of my friends, and me since I was like 17. It's not a rarity!
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1 year
Tour de France Femmes preview let's gooooooo Read on for my entirely correct takes for @GcnRacing
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1 year
Would be such an easy win for ASO to show Roubaix from the start like come on pals sort it out
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3 years
Possibly the only thing worse than the incessant "he's the new Merckx" chatter is Merckx saying "he's the new me" ๐Ÿคฎ
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1 month
Shall I be the one to say it? Male rider x
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Remco Evenepoel is the first rider to have in his palmares a Grand Tour, a Monument, gold at the Worlds and gold at the Olympics.
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Getting my Tour nails done makes it official: I'm off to the #TDFF2024 this weekend to cover the race for @EscapeCycling and the Wheel Talk podcast and I could NOT be more excited ๐Ÿฅณ
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I think it's true that there are a lot of cycling fans who have been lucky enough to get into the sport during the era of Pogacar and aren't used to grand tours where the GC really only happens on a few stages. I don't think it's true that those people are lesser fans though ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ
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1 year
Ding dong YOU ARE WRONG! Both races are registered with the UCI under the name "Strade Bianche"
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@matildaprice_ Sorry but there is the Strade Bianche and the Strade Bianche Donne. They are not the same race which you, I and everyone else knows perfectly well. Pidcock is indeed the first British rider to win the Strade Bianche.
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3 years
The cycling world vaguely pretends to care about its riders' mental wellbeing but as soon as any struggles present in an un-palatable way, you're on your own
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3 years
Wasn't gonna cry and then he had the presence of mind to say the TDF or the TDF Femmes and I was gone
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ITV Cycling
3 years
"It's like my first one. It's what I dreamed of as a kid, it's what I dream of now." This one will take a while to sink in. Your 34-time Tour stage winner ๐Ÿ’š
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2 years
New picture to use everywhere for 6 months just dropped
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2 years
I've not had the best start to the year, both in work and life. But I'm off to Belgium today to just enjoy it all as a fan๐Ÿ’˜ Ready to eat way too many carbs, moan about being cold, and show some completely biased love (hi Sam and Toms). A bit of Classics action heals all, right
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1 year
Out of office! ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ŸŒˆ
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3 years
He called women's cycling fans The Taliban not even a month ago, are we really surprised at this
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2 years
The problem with this generation of male riders isn't anyone's dominance but it's that they all like each other too much. I mean Rogliฤ isn't storming onto the UAE bus for Pog to then throw a bidon at his head, is he
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3 years
Everything before Omloop is just practice
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1 year
It's my birthday! I'm off to Harry Styles! 25 is going to be better than 24!
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10 months
If we want to improve inclusion and diversity in cycling, I do think maybe we should start with the voices of those who don't see themselves included, not white straight men who know nothing but representation of people like themselves
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3 years
I just did an interview in a different language so I am officially a multilingual cycling journalist now
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2 months
Hard to say which team she is supporting
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2 years
They're just nice boys really aren't they
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3 years
It's also not good to exit races because you test positive and yet
@Cyclingnewsfeed
Cyclingnews
3 years
Van der Poel's early Tour de France exit not good for cycling, says Eddy Merckx #TDF2021
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2 months
I can't say Van den Broek without wanting to add Blaak on the end
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4 years
Happy tears and prosecco here tonight as I've somehow managed a first in my degree. Thanks for putting up with 4 years of stress tweets x
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2 years
Better feeling than this: "Sorry I can't do that, I'll be at the Tour de France Femmes" ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ’โ€โ™€๏ธ
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Tilda
3 years
Telling people "sorry I can't do that, I'm working the Tour de France" is the best feeling I've had all year hehe
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2 years
They tell you it can be hard being a woman in sport, but they don't tell you how wonderful it can be when you surround yourself with passionate, inspiring, endlessly supportive female friends and colleagues. Happy #IWD2022 to you all ๐Ÿ’–
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