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luxury sports content | editor, writer, talker @TheAthleticFC | previously @OptaAnalyst
August 15 1992, 3pm
Joined December 2008
Each day on PL there is one main crisis club. The goal is to never be it.
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Which Champions League moment always gives you goosebumps?.
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RT @CWeatherspoon_: Can I shock you?. After selling Luis Diaz, Liverpool's transfer activity this summer - even after spending £300m! - has….
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Liverpool's sales have covered their huge expenditure this summer in accounting terms meaning a big Isak deal is doable
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RT @jwhitey98: Best team, favourite stage, thoughts on Pogacar's dominance? A photo my mum likes of me on Mont Ventoux?. Some final reflect….
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The Athletic's writers discuss Visma Lease-A-Bike's tactics, unsung heroes, biggest disappointments and more
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RT @TheAthletic: 🚲 Pogacar seals fourth overall Tour win.🚲 A wet Paris soaks up some vintage Wout van Aert.🚲 Why was the GC race neutralize….
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RT @jwhitey98: Few teams have had a better Tour de France than Alpecin-Deceuninck — so why is their long-term future in serious doubt?. Phi….
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Alpecin-Deceuninck have stars Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen in their ranks but the Belgian squad face an uncertain future
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RT @TheAthletic: 🟡 Kaden Groves completes Grand Tour stage win trilogy.😮💨 Exhausted Pogacar reflects on 'crazy' race and Vuelta ambitions….
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RT @jwhitey98: Stage 20! In the books. Everyone is exhausted on GC, but a thrilling squabble between the breakaway. Outstanding first Tour….
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Analysis of the penultimate day's action in the 2025 race – a 184km route from Nantua to Pontarlier
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RT @jwhitey98: In winter 2023, Tadej Pogacar sat down and recalibrated. He had finished second in the Tour de France twice in a row, and….
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With the world champion set to seal a fourth Tour title this weekend, this is how he ensured his supremacy in the sport's biggest race
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RT @TheAthletic: 🇳🇱 How did Arensman turn a speculative break into victory on La Plagne?.🤦♂️ Why did Vingegaard leave it so late to sprint….
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RT @TheAthletic: 🇦🇺 Has Ben O'Connor saved Jayco Alula's Tour?.👻 Tadej Pogacar slays his Col de la Loze ghosts.🤯 Was the first half of the….
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RT @jwhitey98: Fireworks on the Glandon and Madeleine, smothered in mist by the ramps of the Col de la Loze. Tadej Pogacar gets revenge, b….
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Analysis of the latest day's action in the 2025 race - a 171.5km Alpine monster from Vif to the Col de la Loze
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RT @jwhitey98: Vincenzo Nibali: “When I attack the downhill, I take a risk. It’s normal. It’s my work.”. Spent the past weeks speaking to c….
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Descending is one of the core skills of the professional peloton. This is how the best riders make it look easy
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RT @TheAthletic: 🟢 Jonathan Milan tightens grip on green jersey.☔️ Heavy rain and a big crash in the closing stages.↕️ Tobias Halland Johan….
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RT @jwhitey98: Cycling is a sport where teams must confront their own mortality, never more than at the end of this year’s relegation cycle….
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The 2025 season is the final year of the WorldTour relegation cycle — and stress levels among the strugglers are high
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RT @jwhitey98: If cycling is a national obsession in the month of July, then Ventoux is the apex from which it ripples. France finally hav….
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Analysis of the latest day's action in the 2025 race - 171km from Montpellier up to the summit of the iconic Mont Ventoux
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RT @jwhitey98: Before the Tour de France, Matteo Jorgenson paid tribute to each teammate. But what would he like them to say of him?. “Just….
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Jorgenson talks to The Athletic about his approach to this year's Tour de France, tension with Pogacar and the state of American cycling
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RT @jwhitey98: Fun day of racing in Carcassonne. Freed of domestique duty, Wellens wins in the Belgian champs jersey. Pogacar repays po….
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Analysis of the latest day's action in the 2025 race - a 169km transitional stage from Muret to Carcassonne
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RT @jwhitey98: Stage 14 and Superbagnères — a climb one favourite failed to reach. Remco Evenepoel has abandoned the Tour de France. “He d….
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Analysis of the latest day's action in the 2025 race - a tough 183km route from Pau to Luchon-Superbagnères
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RT @TheAthletic: 🟡 Twenty-one stages and counting for Pogacar.🧐 What was wrong with Remco?.👊 Vingegaard wrestles some improvement from hims….
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RT @TheAthletic: Over the past five years Tadej Pogacar has proven himself capable of winning almost any race in cycling's calendar. But i….
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