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A Sunday in Hell screenings Jorgen Leth’s classic documentary about the 1976 edition of Paris-Roubaix, with live intro and Q&A with The Guardian’s William Fotheringham, author of ‘Sunday in Hell: Behind …

First up, Ely tomorrow… still a few tickets left for this one. More in the New Year…

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24.11.2025 18:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

wow, what a moment to treasure!! Amazing.
Also @willfoth.bsky.social book is well worth a read about the making of the film

03.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Ned's bang on here.

16.09.2025 11:21 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Best Frenchman award basically

20.07.2025 18:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Place Taffin!

12.07.2025 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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France’s wait for Tour win rumbles on with no prospect of victory in sight | William Fotheringham Bernard Hinault was the last home champion as the sport has gone international, with winners from Colombia and Slovenia

Nice piece in the @theguardian.com today. @willfoth.bsky.social - do you think the real issue might be multiple French teams (each with one of the potential french champs) and they all seem more interested in beating one another rather than winning.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

05.07.2025 07:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Quel triomphe! Tour de France celebrates 50 years of finishes on Champs-Élysées From LeMond’s astonishing comeback to Cavendish’s four victories, the final dash up the great avenue is now part of race folklore

Cycling as SPORT klaxon:

It's that time again: a few days before the start and a nice piece on one aspect of the Tour by @willfoth.bsky.social, completed by a photo by the one and only Graham Watson. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

Looking forward to the full race preview!

01.07.2025 14:15 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Tour de France 2025: stage-by-stage guide to this year’s race On the 50th anniversary of the first Tour finish on the Champs-Élysées, we could be in for a cliffhanger finish

Nice concise bite-sized explanations of each stage from seasoned Tour commentator @willfoth.bsky.social .
We expect nothing less.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

02.07.2025 15:19 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Simon Yates rides away with prize of Giro d’Italia while rivals lose the plot | William Fotheringham Isaac del Toro and Richard Carapaz became distracted by each other, allowing the Lancastrian to claim a second Grand Tour

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

02.06.2025 17:57 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iconic location on todays Vuelta stage

08.05.2025 14:05 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Really great to see @theguardian.com give good space to this obit of the late Barry Hoban. He didn’t get the fame he merited when he was racing, good to redress the balance a small bit

03.05.2025 16:55 — 👍 47    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Middlesbrough Velodrome: Our Community Cycling Hub To develop and enhance our cycling facilities to build on what we have achieved to create a lasting legacy

Matty Brennan, Britain's hottest talent, spent a large part of his childhood sitting behind a derny at Middlesbrough velodrome. The concrete track was crucial in his development. Now the velodrome needs extra funding to maintain it. If you can help...

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/middlesbro...

23.04.2025 06:28 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

So it’s happening without the two biggest stars in the sport & without the dominant organiser? Good luck with that

22.04.2025 19:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just reading about this now in Roule Britannia 👍

21.04.2025 18:26 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

There’s quite a lot of info in there if you start looking 😁

21.04.2025 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He sold her before the race left town but kept her collar & bell

21.04.2025 13:54 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

She was called Estelle

20.04.2025 21:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Barry Hoban, British cycling legend and Tour de France icon, dies aged 85 Barry Hoban, the British cycling Icon and eight-time Tour de France stage winner has died aged 85

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

20.04.2025 15:22 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Block tailwind will make it wild even if the rain doesn’t show up

07.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wednesday in the Weald = Sunday in Hell - one of the nicest venues we’ve had for a screening. Rye tomorrow

26.03.2025 21:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

This story is incredible. And incredibly scary in its implications. Here’s a gift link:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

24.03.2025 16:21 — 👍 491    🔁 181    💬 40    📌 53

No. Not unless there is long term investment in grass roots. Next question pls.

19.03.2025 20:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Glasgow Film Theatre showing of A Sunday in Hell, introduced here by William Fotheringham and Kenny Pryde

Glasgow Film Theatre showing of A Sunday in Hell, introduced here by William Fotheringham and Kenny Pryde

actually a splendid Tuesday in Glasgow with @willfoth.bsky.social

11.03.2025 23:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Tuesday in Glasgow = Sunday in Hell looking forward to the Film Theatre screening tonite

11.03.2025 13:18 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

See if it’s still a fried chicken shop which it was in 2017

07.03.2025 13:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Should be a lot of fun in a city with massive cycling history

06.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Just in case anyone is interested, here is a picture of Winston Churchill in 1943, wearing his wartime 'siren suit' on his way to meet President Roosevelt. He wore the same suit when he went to ask for more money under Lend-Lease the year before.

01.03.2025 12:06 — 👍 119    🔁 43    💬 0    📌 4

Sad to see this JA was a nice guy, great colleague in the press room always helpful with some good stories

18.02.2025 20:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just over a month to this… enter here www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/detai...

13.02.2025 09:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Un uomo solo è al comando, la sua maglia è biancoceleste, il suo nome è Fausto Coppi". Lectura más que recomendada @culturaciclista.bsky.social @willfoth.bsky.social

27.01.2025 15:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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