James Spragg

Jim Ratcliffe, eigenaar van Man United en INEOS, multimiljardair. Woont zelf in Monaco en betaalt nauwelijks belasting in Groot-Brittannië, maar strooit hier wel met onjuiste cijfers om immigranten te bestempelen als profiteurs.

Whilst I have heard this exact story from multiple sources, you have to be the first to share it on social media!

It’s not a perfect system but it at least makes 95% of races actually matter

This is what the points system does!

Unpopular opinion

Without the points system - 95% of pro cycling racing is not really of interest to anyone!

The one thing that resonates with wider population is TdF - for Coppi e Bartali and GP Monsere to matter to teams, sponsors and the public you need to link those races to the TdF

From initial conception to final published paper for a 1st author could be >1000hrs

Not saying this is a bad thing btw!!

Just playing devils advocate here but they might also be financially in a better position than they would have been 10 years ago so have more autonomy over this decision

Working in pro cycling, I often hear that riders will have shorter careers as a result, but to be honest, I haven't (yet!?) seen this borne out.

I read the article & agree that the demands placed on athletes are not the same as 10 years ago (they also on average also earn a lot more!). But tbh I think this has always been the case, there is a constant ratcheting up of speeds, demands, professionalism and also wages! This has possibly sped up

infact Steimle is the only rider mentioned to retire before 30

Genuine question....is the trend that atheltes are actually retiring earlier? What is the average age of retirement now compared with say 5 or 10 years ago? Of the riders identified in the article Yates is 33, De Clerq 36, Clarke 39, Thomas 39, Bardet 35, Demare 34, Chaves 36, and Kristoff 38

It’s crazy that 100% of the FIFA peace prize winners attacked another country less than one month after winning the prize.
Such bad luck for FIFA who had thought long and hard about who should win this prestigious award.

...BTW the pig's name is Herta, which it shares with a popular French brand found in supermarkets 🐷 🥓

Two page interview with Mathys Rondel (Tudor) in L'Equipe after a promising first full season. He's moved to the Pyrenees with his family (sister Léa is pro too) to find better training roads. They've renovated a house where he has a Thibaut Pinot-style animal collection with rabbits, a pet pig...

After 2 weeks away on training camp
It’s back to parenting with a bang - 5am wake up call! Please send coffee

Sun isn’t up yet mate 🤪

Odd to see Norris go onto hards

Tsunoda’s ‘defending’ against Norris was laughable both for its blatancy in rule breaking and its ineffectiveness

Piastri making Norris’ life hard!

in fairness to football they have been using cold sponges since I was a wee lad!

First World Cup skimo of the season!

2nd place for Germany over the line but they received a 30s penalty and got regulated to 4th 😞

It’s against Croatia - tbh given where UK sports science sport funding is compared to Croatian sports science funding this offers quite an peformance differentiation opportunity

It must be some kind of career milestone in professional cycling when agents start adding you on LinkedIn

Giro organisers again doing their best to make the stage 20 to 21 transfer as hard as long as possible!

Got to Rome at 2:30am last year 🙈

Zurich to Innsbruck has to be one of the best train journeys in the world!

Fair play to the ABC journalist questioning the Saudi Crown Prince

100% - currently drinking a non alcoholic white beer and it’s genuinely pretty good

yes, that tastes like beer! Whats not to like!

no one really acknowledges just how good non alcoholic beer is nowadays!