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🚴 Cycling Coach with a PhD in Cardiovascular Physiology 🔬
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Race begins at 14.00. Follow our live ticker here: stats.thebritishcontinental.co.uk/races/9th-an...
March 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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What a state of the art aero bike looked like in 1979. It's a Gitane for Bernard Hinault (Renault-Gitane) with profiled tubing, aero stem + bars, front brake backwards. Brake cables inside bars, rare for the time. Designed with team sponsor Renault. Weighs 8.4kg and claimed to save 100W at 50km/h...
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Steve Coogan is a brilliant actor but he is an awful driver.

It is the second time a judge has shown leniency so Coogan can continue TV and film roles which involve driving.

It should have been the third time he had been banned from driving.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Steve Coogan uses The Trip to avoid lengthier driving ban
The actor and comedian has been banned for two months instead of six, meaning filming can go-ahead.
www.bbc.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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📈🚹Share of points scored by riders aged U23 is increasing, trend continues in first month of 2025 (@procyclingstats.com).

2018: 9.2%
2019: 10.8%
2020: 10.9%
2021: 10.9%
2022: 13.6%
2023: 13.2%
2024: 15.2%
2025*: 20.5%
February 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Rwanda Worlds Plan B is Martigny in Switzerland, reviving the Alpine course that was planned for 2020 but cancelled because of Covid. Kigali at risk, chance of sanctions from some countries and/or the IOC evokes their "Olympic Truce" and suspends Rwanda
Selon plusieurs médias, l'UCI aurait déjà un plan B pour les prochains championnats du monde de cyclisme sur route : Martigny, en Suisse, qui avait dû annuler son organisation en 2020 en raison du Covid-19, pourrait remplacer Kigali si le conflit entre le Rwanda et la RDC perdure #cyclisme
Cyclisme: les Mondiaux du Rwanda menacés ? L'UCI aurait déjà un plan B
Les tensions existantes dans la région de Goma laissent déjà planer le doute sur les Mondiaux au Rwanda.
www.dhnet.be
January 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Haven't you heard? The cycling media landscape has changed again 📺

@irishpeloton looks at the latest price increases and what they could mean for the future of the sport

dnlbenson.substack.com/p/havent-you...

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Haven't you heard? The cycling media landscape has changed again 📺
Cillian Kelly looks at the latest price increases and what they could mean for the future of the sport
dnlbenson.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The cost of watching international cycling just increased 440% in the UK.

With domestic events disappearing & retailers struggling post-covid, this feels like a hammer blow.

www.cyclingweekly.com/news/eurospo...
Eurosport is closing down in the UK - cycling is about to get a lot more expensive to watch
Live cycling to be shown on TNT Sports from next month
www.cyclingweekly.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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I offered this poem to the inauguration but they said they didn’t have the space as Hulk Hogan would be breakdancing
January 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM