I love you, but I've chosen Disco! 🪩
Writer, DJ, Dancer, pop academic, HopePunk, 🙄gif aficionado.
For eclectic cycling mixtapes, I'm your girl!
@mixed_replay
I can't believe this needs to be said, but it apparently does:
Hey Cycling Media.
When reporting on the potential killing (no matter if accidental or intentional) of a woman, don't lead with the alleged killer's accolades, achievements or gold medals. Just don't! Stop doing it!🤐
Jonas Vingegaard:
"The celebration festivities are lovely, but mentally they are more exhausting than doing a week more of the tour against Pogacar..."
🥹
@teaberryblue
Not only was he disaster bi, he was also an early take on the sad-but-I'm-a-NICE-guy.
He stalked the singer Jenny Lind for ages and then wrote "she has carved out my sick flesh with a cold knife, even if I came to Berlin mostly for her"... And then wrote the Nightingale about it
🗣️"We wanted to try to test him [Pogačar] again today and see how he felt and I suppose he felt better than yesterday" - 🇩🇰 Jonas Vingegaard
@maillotjauneLCL
#TDF2023
@JumboVismaRoad
@teaberryblue
The Nightingale can equally be read as two different kinds of passive aggressive fairytale coping with Jenny Lind, depending on whether you place her or her other suitors as the emperor. It's wild, but most HCA fairytales are sad self-righteous "but-I'm-a-niceguy" Reddit posts...
Reminder that Van Hooydonck is Vingegaard's roomie-bestie when they race together!
I don't think this was about GC as such. I think this was about Nathan.
Jonas Vingegaard's parents:
"We think he accepts this whole celebration hoopla as something that follows the victory and he's okay with it, but we think he'd rather have some time off... But he's getting used to it and we're kinda getting used to it as well, Sort of..."
😂😂😂
From now on, if people are dumb about the "story" of a certain Danish GT rider, mostly based on superficial commentator intel and lack of research, I'll point them to this moment in cycling twitter history.
Valgreen with the 2016 mic drop.🤣
Comments still exist and are public.
@AubryAndrews
Not even gonna go into the relationship part of it, but the whole idea that "your legitimate personal boundaries are restricting my freedom of expression" is such a horrible trend in how the rhetoric around boundary setting in general currently 😑
*the following contains spoilers-by-glaring-omission
Ahem...
@netflix
please sit down!
We need to have a SERIOUS talk about specific (bad!😬) editorial decisions made in Tour de France - Unchained.🤨
TELL ME WHO THE F*CK LEFT THIS WHOLE STORYLINE ON THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR??🤯🤦♀️
An incredible act of sportsmanship ❤️️
After
@TamauPogi
crashes on the final descent of Stage 18, Jonas Vingegaard waits for his rival to catch up and the duo exchange a handshake before the final summit finish of the 2022 Tour de France 🤝
___________
🇫🇷
#TDF2022
Help, it's again. 🙄
It's cool to like Pogi, but the journalistic choice to go for weird conjecture from certain writers is getting kinda dumb.
Vingegaard looks really f'in happy in every minute of the post stage footage, but dude's from Jutland, let him be happy in his own way.
🥹
We've all seen the first one of Wout & Mathieu already...
But the one of Wout shaking hands with Jasper after the sprint and this different moment of M&W post-race interaction was news to me and healed my poor, soft, Roubaix-bruised little heart! ❤️🩹
(via random instagrams)
Context on Vingegaard's response to the Annecy attacks:
His wife and daughter were in Annecy when it happened:
They stay there often and the attack site is a park they also use.
No wonder it made him extra emotionally affected by it.😰😓
And even without that, empathy is human.
Vi har fået en opklaring på, hvorfor Jonas Vingegaard var så rørt over knivstikkeriet i Frankrig i går.
Hans familie - konen Trine og datteren Frida - er i Annecy, og de kommer ofte på den pågældende legeplads.
What's getting lost in the backlash from Movistar fans and "all about the money" cries... Is how he's been very open about the time/money/effort he spends on his altitude training, nutrition as an individual.
Makes sense to go to a team where those things are a baseline focus.🤷🏻♀️
Gros temps de Lotte Kopecky, deuxième provisoire à 37" de Marlen Reusser ! La Belge, maillot vert, semble bien partie pour monter sur le podium de ce Tour de France.
#TDFF2023
...I don't mean to full on snark about the interviewer here, but if you're gonna interview
@Mads__Pedersen
- maybe just...
I dunno? Check the results for the very race you're at back to 2020?
It's not like it's that long ago... 🫣🤷🏻♀️
😭😭😭😭
I hope he will heal and recover. Not for any particular races or because he needs to win anything special to be special.
Just because he deserves to be happy and healthy.
Update Wout van Aert:
Unfortunately, Wout van Aert suffered several fractures in the crash at Dwars door Vlaanderen today.
A broken collarbone and several broken ribs were diagnosed in hospital. It is unclear how long his recovery will take. He will definitely miss the Tour
He is FAR too chill and giggly for someone who just rode that kind of stage and who's supposed to be "stressed out, insecure and scared" according to people who clearly haven't been to Jutland.
😅
🎙 🇩🇰Jonas Vingegaard : « J’ai déjà grimpé le Grand Colombier, je le connais un peu. Je suis prêt pour la bataille de demain. »
💛 L’intégralité de l’interview du porteur du
#MaillotJauneLCL
, c’est ici. ⤵️ 💛
#TDF2023
I'm sorry, and I have no good reason for feeling like this, but as impressive as Remco is, he just leaves me with a massive MEH feeling every time... It's not dislike, just... A deep disinterest and a soundtrack of elevator muzak. 🤷🏻♀️
Hey Cycling Twitter and Cycling Media!
Can we maybe allow the 20yr young, excited Mexican guy to enjoy his victory WITHOUT proclaiming him "The NEW/NEXT somethingorother"?
Just... Maybe let him be himself and develop in whatever way suits him instead of comparing him to others?
Well, it's pretty clear who has a 2,5 yr old at home and who hasn't... xD
And yet another case of:
Hello world, meet Denmark.
We don't do small talk or euphemisms if we can help it.
And really: Don't do stupid things.
Honestly; I feel like we need a full 8 episode spinoff series that's just following the
@Watts_Occurring
gang around a chosen Grand Tour, commenting on the world and well, the race, and with random memorable actual race moments cut in for dramatic/comedic effect...
#TDFUnchained
And no. Images of the accused/arrested person holding olympic gold medals and celebrating is NOT a suitable choice for a headline photo here. Not for this story.
Seriously; what's wrong with the photo editors thinking it is?
Dear cycling reality show runners.
At some point we NEED to have a conversation about the fact that you're SO heavy-handed on the backstory setup that Adri van der Poel (dad), Patrick Evenepoel (dad) and Jos van Aert (uncle) all rode for the same team in 1994.😳
Like, WTF?!?
🤯
This is not exactly the overall flex for the sport some people try to make it out to be.
It's great for those two riders and their teams and people who are devoted fans of these specific riders/teams...
But why complain about the Sky era and SDW last year, but celebrate this?🤷♀️
Between the two of them, Van der Poel and Pogačar have won 8 of the last 10 monuments.
The ones they didn't win:
Liège '23. Pogačar DNF broken wrist.
Milan Sanremo '24. Van der Poel helped his teammate win.
🥹🥺🥹
My heart is so soft for this man and secondhand breaking over the amount of pressure and bad luck he's been burdened with.💔
He deserves his rest now, even if I'd love to see him in Amstel and Liege... Most of all I just want him to be happy.❤️
Gutted for the guy and the team.
And then, again, a sadly needed community reminder that if your fan affiliations seemingly require you to be smug or celebrate the disappointment of young riders, maybe... Do better? Get a hobby? Try out the pesky thing called empathy? Maybe? 🤷♀️
🇮🇹
#GirodItalia
The Giro will have to continue without the biggest smile of the peloton 😔. We regret to announce that Cian Uijtdebroeks is forced to abandon the race. Cian did not feel well the past days and after yesterday’s stage, he fell ill. We wish you a speedy recovery 🫶🏼
Ladyfolks and gentlepeople!
You've heard about the ski jumping.
You've heard about the football. The skating. The cross country skiing.
Rebecca Koerner, newly minted DK Road Race Champion has (if my counting is correct) 22 NC titles in...
Diving!!!
(platform and springboard)
Rebecca Koerner - fra tårnudspringer til væddeløber 💫
I 2018 blev hun danmarksmester i tårnudspring for tredje år i træk. 3 år senere skrev hun under på en professionel kontrakt med
@UnoXteam
efter en kometkarriere på landevejen.
Hør historien her:
When start thinking about what Sepp has been doing in ⛰️s since 2018, it's pretty remarkable.
🇪🇸'18—Kruijswijk 4th
🇮🇹'19—Roglic 3rd
🇪🇸'19—Roglic 1st
🇫🇷'20—Roglic 2nd
🇪🇸'20—Roglic 1st
🇫🇷'21—Vingegaard 2nd
🇪🇸'21—Roglic 1st
🇫🇷'22—Vingegaard 1st
🇮🇹'23—Roglic 1st
Today at
#TDF2023
⤵️
Seriously...
Without knowing what actual medication and the values found, the entire choir of "help it's again"/"it's systemic" response around cases like this is dumb.
He might be an intentional idiot. He might be a careless idiot. Until we know more, he's a suspended idiot.
It concerned an out-of-competition control on 14 June in Germany. The detected product is a diuretic medicine. We await the results of further investigation. Michel has been suspended by the team until further notice.
JV's mother-in-law (Bakeoff TV famous in DK) when asked about whether Jonas/Trine/Frida is moving out of Denmark to give Frida a steady base closer to training options:
"I'm of the opinion that when your kids turn 18, they should decide that themselves. So you have to ask them!"
MvdP is amazing at all things cycling.
Technically gifted beyond compare, can generate more power than an average industrial windmill park and is wildly successful.
And this is EXACTLY why he should not be used as the definitive benchmark for safety measures in races like here.
@Domestique___
Without discounting his opinion, I don't think making safety decisions based on the most technically gifted rider who's likely to be in front of any group he's in (should he want to) is the way to go either...
It's like letting the 1% decide how unemployment support should work.
Hey
@TV2SPORTdk
- can you maybe please make today's emotionally moving post-stage interview with Jonas Vingegaard non-geolocked for twitter purposes and maybe, I dunno, give it english subtitles?
I think it would be good if the general cycling world was allowed to see it too.❤️
I guess this is one way to slow
@WoutvanAert
down...
(It's mostly farm work roads, so it may very well just be rotten luck. Slowed the man down nonetheless...)
😬🥺😵🥹😅
(WvA's insta)
Today is a day of remembrance for both Bjorg Lambrecht who would have turned 27 today and for Michael Goolaerts who passed away during his first Paris-Roubaix 6 years ago today... 💔
Diskussions about results and palmares don't matter on days like today. ❤️🩹
#ForBjorg
#All4Goolie
Mads 🤝🏻 Wout
THE best badass, brawny, ride or die wingmen for their scrawny GC buddies.🔥
Allround, powerful, classics specialist who without blinking ride themselves into the ground to shape the race before letting the tiny ones fly! 🥹
Probably my favourite flavour ever! 😍
I really appreciate the way Remco has handled the interviews after those last two stages here.
He's realistic and resilient here, and it's also not like he didn't warm us all before the race either.
#Dauphin
é 🇫🇷 - 🏁FINISH
🇧🇪Remco at the finish:
The shape is just not there, finishes like this you have to be 100% to perform at your best. It's a 10% climb so it is a climb that doesn't lie."
#DomestiqueLive
@Domestique___
Without discounting his opinion, I don't think making safety decisions based on the most technically gifted rider who's likely to be in front of any group he's in (should he want to) is the way to go either...
It's like letting the 1% decide how unemployment support should work.
Okay this is the 3rd time I've heard "Vingegaard is inexperienced/new to racing" sentiment this week.
1) Pls define inexperienced, if it includes racing from age 11 or whatever?🤨
2) it kinda seems like looking for evidence to support a fixed narrative for certain pundits here.🙃
"The most disappointed rider going into the yellow jersey in history!"
The Breakaway question whether Jonas Vingegaard's lack of experience was a factor on Stage 6.
@AdamBlythe89
|
@mcewenrobbie
Danish comms on GCN
"I'd like to see a sprint between the 3 jumbos..."
"I mean, they have done weird stuff this year, like when Van Aert gave away GW to Laporte..."
awkward pause
"I'm sure he's regretting that now.!
"Yes, he must, after this season..."
Really? ReallyREALLY?🤨
@cbouzy
Can we also (including my fellow Danes) just pause at the weird fact that monarchies overall are so rigid that you are supposed to curtsy to your romantic partner's parent - and that the child of said parent are cool with that?🤷🏻♀️🤔🤨
Hey (cycling) Twitter...
This is a strangely hard thing to post, but I'm gonna try to do it anyways.
I'm in need of a new job. Or jobs, as in several smaller ones.
I don't think I've ever done something like this before, so...
I'd love to use my skills in the cycling world.
@johnmiller
@BrentToderian
Maybe don't try to use Russia as a reason here. It's Finland. They share a significant border with Russia and their military spendings have historically been tied to actual defence of their borders against... Russia. But okay, understanding that would involve thought...🤷🏻♀️
Christ the comments section is beyond ridiculous by now.
I find it odd how people can claim to not trust anyone alongside knowing so surprisingly little about the current antidoping systems AND while still following the sport.
If you auto assume people are doping, why watch it?
Hey GCN+, I know you're going through a LOT right now, but this is just... Beyond dumb.
The visuals, the framing, THE TEXT. 🤦🏻♀️
I hope the program is better, but this is clickbait hell.
AND: Guilty of what?
(Missing a test, sure, it's 1 strike in a 3 strike system... What else?)
The can-opener play is to have Jonas attack early.
GC rivals chase, Roglic/Kuss chills.
If he'd been caught and Roglic won the sprint in front of Kuss, gaining 4s on red and NOT gifting Mas, Ayuso, Vlasov 4s too, it's hailed as a tactical masterpiece.
But the opposition sat up.
Let me just cue up "Dinosaurs Will Die" on the playlist...
Seeing both Rouleur and
@cyclingweekly
openly take a stand against PatLef (and other powerful team managers) throwing abuse after their riders in the media is a much welcome change of pace and rhetoric about it!!
Happy New Year to the real folks on cycling twitter who doesn't make me want to burn my computer and never be online again.
You hopefully all know who you are (pssst, if I talk to you in private, you are) - and I appreciate your existences in my life. <3
(ps: Going viral sucks)
@OutOfCycling
@WoutvanAert
Wait, is this one of those "spot the difference" games?
Well...
One is the most powerful machine on wheels. The other is a racecar.
I seriously don't get how some people feel like their comments of support and "get well soon" wishes require some form of "not a fan"/"don't like the team"/"yay now my guy can win" phrasings.
Like... Why?!? Are people so devoid of empathy that they can't just leave that out? 🤦♀️🤌
LouLou to AG2R petition starts here...
(They have room, 29 incl at least 2 neo-pros and him + Cosnefroy seems to have good chemistry. Plus it's an excellent opportunity for more unhinged jersey dancing.)
I have a very bad feeling about Julian's future seasons here,
There's a high chance of him leaving Quick-Step this summer, and a very high chance of him joining TotalEnergies
If that were to be the case, I think I can say that the best of Julian is now behind us...
The Tour's culture war
Jonas Vingegaard won the 2023 Tour de France and looks set for an era of dominance, but his style has not been a hit with all fans
Read more:
I want
@Mads__Pedersen
to do this kind of paving quality analysis of every race in the calendar now...! Or at least the ones he rides.🧨
Pretty please
@TrekSegafredo
?
🥺🙏🏻🥹
@awoffinden
@cyclartist
Newsflash: Lance is not a bad person because he was doping or cheating.
He's a bad person because he was a repeated manipulative and aggressive bully, who used his power and fame to subvert institutional fairness and who threatened people close to him for years. That's why.
@CamachoPamina
That would probably make it way easier... All introverts need a hyper extrovert friend as an attention distractor, introduction maker and social party trick. 🥹😉
It's probably why most introverts allow themselves to be friended upon by extroverts...
Jonas looking like one big apology (probably not intended/expected gap to get that big) in the pre-rolloff clips and Sepp grinning (after full on hugging him) at the line makes me think everyone was informed of the plan as it happened and consenting adults here.
But let's hear.
This hardcore reads like: "Please don't see my UCI
#1
, Giro winning, most-winningest superstar rider on my dictator oil-money funded, most-winningest superstar team as the TdF favourite! We realised we really like being the cute underdogs and people might get tired of us..." 😝🤦🏻♀️
After a few seconds of shock having barely escaped myself, I tried as hard as I could to bring myself out of it. As we got onto the foot of the Kanarieberg I felt some responsibility to honor what has gone into this. The sheer man-hours, planning, late nights and early mornings
The most hilarious and on-brand coincidental thing is however that in terms of "biggest ranking jump" of the giro Gee is... 2nd! 😅🫣
(659 places up landing him in 50th vs Milan jumping 661 spots, landing in 51st... Healy jumping 373 to 20th in 3rd.)
Derek Gee's incredible
#Giro
performance bagged him a whopping 940 UCI points.
That's equivalent to winning the GC at Paris-Nice (500), Strade Bianche (400) and a stage of the UAE Tour (40)!
He may have just given IPT a golden ticket for promotion at the next cycle.
@CamachoPamina
Quick, can someone please find the clip of Pogi figuring out the flower+vase logistics on LAST year's podium and then being hella smug about it?
What the f*** is the point of this article?
Their main riders crashed, it sucks majorly, big whoop.
Some people are changing jobs, which happens in real life.
Why turn it into some weird hubris tale?
Oh wait, same journo wrote the "JV fails to win over public" piece last year!
Opinion: Visma-Lease a Bike’s woes extend beyond a looming Tour de France crisis.
Jeremy Whittle writes that the roots of the blighted spring of the 'Killer Bees' is deeper than a string of debilitating crashes.
@soixtfta
@Bruce1Ann
@DrewNederpelt
@CalltoActivism
The story doesn't even require the kid to understand/recognise the language.
It's fully reasonable to assume that many 3yr old Canadians would at least know the existence of 'French', AND when encountering a language they register as "not how I speak" then refer to it as French.
Kelderman saw the praise Van Baarle was getting as 'transfer of the season' and thought to himself:
'I can match that, but without even breaking my record no-win strike...'
Then he saw MvdP leadout and thought to himself:
'Yeah, I can do that too, but uphill in max headwind'!
😅
When your mum INSIST that you bring your lil' brother along for what was supposed to be a date...
And your date wanna impress your mum, so he makes an effort, but you don't...