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Tommy Voeckler masks my foolishness at the Tour de Yorkshire
One of the challenges when writing about bike racing is that there are shitloads of riders. You look ahead to a cricket or football match and you’ve got at most 22 people to write about. This makes it easier for less-than-ardent fans reading your work to get a grip on proceedings. In contrast, your average…
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Who to support in the 2016 Tour de Yorkshire
The Tour de Yorkshire promises to be a great celebration of all that isn’t wonderful about British cycling at this exact minute. All sorts of high profile riders are taking part, but they aren’t going to be asked about bike racing. They’re going to be asked whether anyone else at British Cycling refers to the…
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Is Shane Sutton a sexist foul-mouthed bigot?
Well, he is Australian (badoom-tish). If you don’t know Shane Sutton, he’s in charge of British Cycling’s Olympic track cyclists. He is the kind of guy people will often describe as “plain speaking”. Of late, Sutton’s speech hasn’t actually seemed all that plain. Jessica Varnish, a track sprinter who has recently lost her contract, claims…
