Tom Thewlis
@tomthewlis.bsky.social
Reporter for @cyclingweekly.com
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Hope the "thank goodness the Premier League is back!!" takes are kept to a minimum this week – the past few days has been football at its best & purest.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hope the "thank goodness the Premier League is back!!" takes are kept to a minimum this week – the past few days has been football at its best & purest.
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My book, Tadej Pogačar: Unstoppable, is out today!
It is the first in-depth biography of modern cycling's greatest, charting his dazzling rise to the top, full of fresh stories, insight and interviews with those close to him.
Order it here: tinyurl.com/Pogibook 📙 @bloomsburysport.bsky.social
It is the first in-depth biography of modern cycling's greatest, charting his dazzling rise to the top, full of fresh stories, insight and interviews with those close to him.
Order it here: tinyurl.com/Pogibook 📙 @bloomsburysport.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
My book, Tadej Pogačar: Unstoppable, is out today!
It is the first in-depth biography of modern cycling's greatest, charting his dazzling rise to the top, full of fresh stories, insight and interviews with those close to him.
Order it here: tinyurl.com/Pogibook 📙 @bloomsburysport.bsky.social
It is the first in-depth biography of modern cycling's greatest, charting his dazzling rise to the top, full of fresh stories, insight and interviews with those close to him.
Order it here: tinyurl.com/Pogibook 📙 @bloomsburysport.bsky.social
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August 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Confirmed - Remco Evenepoel will leave Soudal Quick-Step at the end of the season and join Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe. Story on @cyclingweekly.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Confirmed - Remco Evenepoel will leave Soudal Quick-Step at the end of the season and join Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe. Story on @cyclingweekly.com
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Confirmed: David Rozman has left the Tour and will be interviewed by ITA again.
My story👇👇
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My story👇👇
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Ineos carer David Rozman leaves Tour de France after investigation launched by anti-doping authorities
ITA to interview Ineos carer David Rozman over alleged historical messages in 2012
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July 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Confirmed: David Rozman has left the Tour and will be interviewed by ITA again.
My story👇👇
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My story👇👇
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Not a surprise.
Lenny Martinez loses 8 of the 20 points he scored on the Glandon after three sticky bottles - but keeps the other 12. #TDF2025
July 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Not a surprise.
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Stage 12 finishes at Hautacam, a 16km climb first used at #TourdeFrance in 1994. At the 2000 Tour, Spaniard Javier Otxoa soloed to victory in the rain, holding off a hard-charging Lance Armstrong. Here's a piece I wrote about Otxoa and tragedy that was soon to follow. wildermedia.com/javier-otxoa...
Javier Otxoa, 1974-2018 - WilderMedia
Upon reading about the news of Javier Otxoa’s death at age 43 after a long illness, I recalled this piece I wrote back in 2002. I was an editorial intern at VeloNews; it was the first piece I ever had...
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July 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Stage 12 finishes at Hautacam, a 16km climb first used at #TourdeFrance in 1994. At the 2000 Tour, Spaniard Javier Otxoa soloed to victory in the rain, holding off a hard-charging Lance Armstrong. Here's a piece I wrote about Otxoa and tragedy that was soon to follow. wildermedia.com/javier-otxoa...
Oscar Onley is continuing to shine at this Tour de France and is growing quietly more confident by the day.
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'It's not something I expected' - Oscar Onley finishes third to Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard at Tour de France
Kelso-born rider now seventh on GC after tough test on Mûr-de-Bretagne
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July 12, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Oscar Onley is continuing to shine at this Tour de France and is growing quietly more confident by the day.
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Ineos Grenadiers haven't got off to a great start in the Tour de France – can they afford another flop? I investigate and analyse for @cyclingweekly.com
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'Where once we were at the top of the heap, we’re not anymore' – Can Ineos Grenadiers survive another Tour de France flop?
Once the dominant force in Grand Tour racing, Ineos Grenadiers now look lost in the era of Pogačar and Vingegaard. What went wrong, and can they ever pull it back?
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July 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Ineos Grenadiers haven't got off to a great start in the Tour de France – can they afford another flop? I investigate and analyse for @cyclingweekly.com
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What a ride from Ben Healy.
Reaction on the ground from EF’s Tom Southam, Charly Wegelius and Michael Valgren in Vire Normandie. 👇🏻 #TDF2025
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Reaction on the ground from EF’s Tom Southam, Charly Wegelius and Michael Valgren in Vire Normandie. 👇🏻 #TDF2025
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'He had the idea and believed in it' - how Ben Healy and his team plotted victory on stage six of the Tour de France
EF Education-Easypost explain the work that went into Irishman's 40km solo win in Vire Normandie
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July 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What a ride from Ben Healy.
Reaction on the ground from EF’s Tom Southam, Charly Wegelius and Michael Valgren in Vire Normandie. 👇🏻 #TDF2025
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Reaction on the ground from EF’s Tom Southam, Charly Wegelius and Michael Valgren in Vire Normandie. 👇🏻 #TDF2025
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Jasper Philipsen crashes out of the race on the road to Dunkirk.
My story from stage three 👇🏻
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My story from stage three 👇🏻
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'He was a victim' - Jasper Philipsen breaks collarbone after 'stupid' crash at Tour de France
Alpecin-Deceuninck don't blame Bryan Coquard after 'racing incident' on the road to Dunkirk
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July 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Jasper Philipsen crashes out of the race on the road to Dunkirk.
My story from stage three 👇🏻
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My story from stage three 👇🏻
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Jonas Vingegaard is attacking purely for his own entertainment at this Tour de France. www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/i-did...
'I did it for fun' - Jonas Vingegaard goes on the attack at Tour de France
Two-time winner launched a surprise attack on the road to Bolougne-sur-Mer, later admitting that it had been purely for his own entertainment
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July 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Jonas Vingegaard is attacking purely for his own entertainment at this Tour de France. www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/i-did...
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Today’s expert analysis: it ends up! If Pogačar and Van der Poel don’t attack on the preceding climbs, surely they’ll be tempted on this final uphill drag (photo taken with 500m to go). Still the heart yearns for Roglification… #TdF2025
July 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Today’s expert analysis: it ends up! If Pogačar and Van der Poel don’t attack on the preceding climbs, surely they’ll be tempted on this final uphill drag (photo taken with 500m to go). Still the heart yearns for Roglification… #TdF2025
Pouring down with rain at the start this morning. A Pogcineration ala Fléche Wallone is definitely on the cards in Boulogne.
July 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Pouring down with rain at the start this morning. A Pogcineration ala Fléche Wallone is definitely on the cards in Boulogne.
I’m on the ground in Lille and ready for the start of another Tour de France. Check out my stories on @cyclingweekly.com over the next few days. 🇫🇷
July 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I’m on the ground in Lille and ready for the start of another Tour de France. Check out my stories on @cyclingweekly.com over the next few days. 🇫🇷
“It goes against the whole idea of racing” CPA President Adam Hansen on the planned move from the UCI. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-maj...
'The majority of riders say that this is not the biggest issue' - UCI to test gear limits at races from August, effectively banning most SRAM chainsets
Change made after recommendation from SafeR commission, trials thought to take place at Tour of Guangxi
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June 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“It goes against the whole idea of racing” CPA President Adam Hansen on the planned move from the UCI. www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-maj...
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Yates attacks on the Finestre. It was on these same hairpins that he abandoned the maglia rosa in 2018
May 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yates attacks on the Finestre. It was on these same hairpins that he abandoned the maglia rosa in 2018
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Yikes
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May 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Yikes
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Marcel Kittel wasn’t too impressed with the plans for the final stage of the Tour de France when we spoke yesterday. www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/i-fee...
'I feel pain in my sprinter's heart': Marcel Kittel reacts to Tour de France final stage shake-up in Paris
Retired German sprinting great says inclusion of cobbled climb to Montmartre before Champs-Élysées finish will be 'very stressful' and would leave him 'disappointed as a rider'
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May 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Marcel Kittel wasn’t too impressed with the plans for the final stage of the Tour de France when we spoke yesterday. www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/i-fee...
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Super rider from Carapaz. Just love that aggression.
So many riders nowadays are hesitant to give everything for fear of wasting energy, or of what others around them might do, but there is the evidence of what can happen when you throw caution to the wind.
So many riders nowadays are hesitant to give everything for fear of wasting energy, or of what others around them might do, but there is the evidence of what can happen when you throw caution to the wind.
May 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Super rider from Carapaz. Just love that aggression.
So many riders nowadays are hesitant to give everything for fear of wasting energy, or of what others around them might do, but there is the evidence of what can happen when you throw caution to the wind.
So many riders nowadays are hesitant to give everything for fear of wasting energy, or of what others around them might do, but there is the evidence of what can happen when you throw caution to the wind.
Sat down with Bradley Wiggins at an Ekoï kit launch last week. What followed was an incredibly raw, moving and honest conversation. 👇🏻 www.cyclingweekly.com/news/i-was-d...
'I was doing loads of cocaine... my kids were going to put me into rehab': Bradley Wiggins on recreational drug use, Lance Armstrong's help and finding a new love for cycling
Wiggins opens up on the personal trauma which engulfed him post-retirement and put him in some 'very dangerous' situations after he became addicted to cocaine
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May 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Sat down with Bradley Wiggins at an Ekoï kit launch last week. What followed was an incredibly raw, moving and honest conversation. 👇🏻 www.cyclingweekly.com/news/i-was-d...
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Pogačar will ride Paris-Roubaix, screengrab from UAE team website
March 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Pogačar will ride Paris-Roubaix, screengrab from UAE team website