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tour de france mihelič

1 year

as some of you may remember, during the off season, I was working on a cycling novella set in the EPO era. After many revisions, I've finally finished it:

lojze klemenčič and the holy place

A novella in seven parts.

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@derailleurkate

2 years

Absolute hypebeast shit

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The people who introduced deranged and violent transphobia into cycling during a time when transgender people face unprecedented persecution and state-sponsored violence have no place in our sport, don’t actually care about women’s sport, and should be ashamed of themselves.

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@derailleurkate

11 months

name a more powerful pair

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@derailleurkate

8 months

sepp kuss pls meet with president biden and demand better bike infrastructure in our country the usa you are our only hope

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@derailleurkate

11 months

in retrospect lockdown was truly a wild time. like how did i only eat cereal for a whole week in order to devote 9 hour days to painting a photorealistic portrait of tadej pogačar

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2 years

I tried to write about Richard

on richard moore

I first met Richard Moore in the Grand Départ press room of the 2021 Tour de France. I’d caught a bus there from my AirBnb and had brought all my luggage with me because I had to change hotels that...

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this and EF are literally the only team jerseys that are working within the visual languages of contemporary graphic design. everyone else is working in styles from - I kid you not - five to ten years ago.

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@derailleurkate

1 year

this is a sports beef screenshot for the history books

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@derailleurkate

10 months

that mohorič interview is unforgettable. a liturgy for cycling.

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@derailleurkate

1 year

I wrote about Primož Roglič, his Giro victory, the burden of stories, and what might be one of the greatest redemption arcs ever to be gleaned in sport:

Primož Roglič and the closed circle of longing - Escape Collective

There is no more La Planche des Belles Filles. Roglič has moved on from the caricature of trauma that's been drawn since that day. He's free.

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@derailleurkate

1 year

I have 0 tolerance for transphobia and if you pick a fight with me on this issue I’ll go into it with the unconquerable confidence of knowing I’m on the right side of history. Trans people have been members of my community for my entire adult life and I will defend them full stop

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@derailleurkate

2 years

all i will say on this as a journalist is that people who perform as media outlets and get designated press access at events (whether they label themselves as journalists or not) should disclose conflicts of interest before not after the fact. that's basic ethics, sorry.

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@derailleurkate

2 years

I AM BLUE CHECKED

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2 years

I simply respect Primož Roglič

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@derailleurkate

7 months

the transfer season is embroiled in drama and the landscape of contemporary cycling will inevitably and irrevocably shift as a result tadej pogačar:

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@robynjournalist

7 months

most normal tadej pogačar video

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@derailleurkate

2 years

Hate to say this but there’s no way Roglič will ever lead a Tour again in his life and I find something sad about that

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@derailleurkate

11 months

The reason you don’t hear fearmongering about trans men in sport is because of old fashioned misogyny — the idea that women are inherently weaker than men and are precious and need to be protected. That is not liberation. It’s not feminism. It’s literally the opposite.

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@derailleurkate

8 months

lol at roglič throwing a molotov cocktail in the team's nice slaphappy kumbaya moment by being like "idk about all this" in the post-race interview while a team swannie gets beat down by cops. this vuelta is insane

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@derailleurkate

8 months

my take on remco is the same as pogačar, anyone who hates him needs to balance that with how fucking boring things would start being without either of them

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@derailleurkate

10 months

I wrote about Matej Mohorič

Matej Mohorič and the cruelty of victory - Escape Collective

To be a breakaway specialist is to hide your strength, until you use it in a moment of your opponent's worst weakness.

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@derailleurkate

2 years

In my latest profile, I sat down with Tadej Pogačar for a long chat about grief, loss, the Tour, a better world, cycling getting faster and younger, the long view of his incredible career and just about anything you could think to ask him

The losses driving Tadej Pogačar

In the wake of the 2022 Tour de France, there’s a lot to ask Tadej Pogačar. And for once, he has quite a lot to say.

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@derailleurkate

11 months

The end result of transphobia is the policing of all female bodies including cisgendered ones, esp in sports. It’s getting the cops called on you for going to the toilet with short hair or small breasts. It’s the rigid enforcement gender roles and gender aesthetics.

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@derailleurkate

8 months

"there are no gifts in cycling" TIL helping your teammate who is in the leader's jersey is considered a gift now

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@derailleurkate

10 months

my whole timeline is doping chat this is like what twitter must have been like in 1997

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@derailleurkate

1 year

The bike I own / the cyclist I am

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@derailleurkate

2 years

The big day has come, and with perfect timing! I spent several months profiling Tadej Pogačar and you can finally read it here:

Who the Hell Even Are You, Tadej Pogačar?

The 23-year-old phenom makes winning the Tour de France look easy. I went to Slovenia to find out how.

www.bicycling.com

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@derailleurkate

10 months

gino told me he liked pello bilbao so much he named his dog after him. i'm not crying, you're crying

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@derailleurkate

2 months

i'll be the one to say it: finally some healthy masculinity in cycling

Cycling out of context

@OutOfCycling

2 months

This is true love.

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@derailleurkate

10 months

vingegaard about to go from being generally well-liked to being the most disliked man in slovenia tbh

Domestique

@Domestique___

10 months

Jumbo-Visma will go to #LaVuelta23 with both Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard. They want to win all three Grand Tours in the same year. 🤯WOW!

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@derailleurkate

2 years

i will defend Roglič for quitting le tour. I will also defend anyone for quitting anything

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@derailleurkate

6 months

I think about this photo every day

Lorenzo Fortunabro

@LFortunabro

6 months

Post an iconic photo of the 2023 pro cycling season!

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@derailleurkate

2 years

Pogačar’s fiancée’s mother literally just died of cancer and all y’all can do is make Lance comparisons. Childish.

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@derailleurkate

7 months

I am glad to be alive at the same time Tadej Pogačar is racing his bike

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@derailleurkate

1 year

This is the most important day of my sporting life

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@derailleurkate

2 years

I cannot put into words what Richard meant to me as a person and as a journalist. He was my mentor and my friend and my favorite person in all of cycling. I am beyond devastated. My love goes out to his family and anyone who had the supreme privilege to know him as I did.

The Cycling Podcast

@cycling_podcast

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A message from The Cycling Podcast.

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@derailleurkate

7 months

roglič choosing to go to Bora when IPT offered him like 6 million euros a year is so funny. winning is still more important to him than being insanely rich. you've gotta hand it to him.

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@derailleurkate

2 years

women’s cycling is so good

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@derailleurkate

6 months

Beyond devastated about GCN and honestly fuck Warner brothers discovery forever. Dogshit company that does nothing but hurt creative people

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@derailleurkate

8 months

when i said after the tour that vinge suddenly deciding to do the vuelta didn't make sense and was only going to cause leadership problems twitter got mad at me and told me it would be fine bc everyone on jumbo visma wuvs each other vewwy much or something

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@derailleurkate

10 months

Ok last thing I’ll say about this is I don’t get why it is imperative for everyone to be nice and boring all the time. Like it rules that Wout is kind of a baddie now and that Pogačar is in his troll era. It’s fun!

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@derailleurkate

2 years

Pogačar fan has to be the easiest job in the world

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@derailleurkate

11 months

I am not afraid to stand up for what’s right and I don’t owe unhinged bigots a goddamn thing, especially not as a writer.

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@derailleurkate

1 year

this pic goes so hard

Team Visma | Lease a Bike

@vismaleaseabike

1 year

🇮🇹 #Giro A 🇸🇮 path to heaven.

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@derailleurkate

11 months

i'm covering the tour de france femmes for the first time this year :)

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@derailleurkate

11 months

sorry for locking it's just that i can only take so many weird freaks telling me i'm secretly a man in a dress or "not a real journalist" because i refuse, on the grounds of basic ethics, to give airtime to monomaniacal bigots

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@derailleurkate

1 year

I’m going to Roubaix ❤️‍🔥

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@derailleurkate

11 months

He told me he was thinking of pursuing a life outside of cycling and now that opportunity is foreclosed to him. He loved his girlfriend and his dog. He cared about Switzerland and about climate change and about making right the ills of the world. A bright light gone.

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@derailleurkate

11 months

Anyway, consider this my firm statement on the issue which frankly isn’t an issue because the athlete in question adhered to all rules and regulations and literally did not do anything wrong. Her result still stands because she won, period. Die mad about it.

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@derailleurkate

8 months

i think sepp can do it

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@derailleurkate

2 years

Locked my account because I don’t have to accept abuse from strangers 😇

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9 months

pog needs to be studied in a lab

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@derailleurkate

11 months

I wrote about Gino:

on gino mäder

The first thing you must know about Gino Mäder is that he had unbelievable charisma. He had an air about him that drew everyone in. He had deep, understanding eyes and a rather serious visage...

derailleur.substack.com

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@derailleurkate

10 months

kinda think this was for jonas vingegaard

Cyclist

@cyclist

10 months

That one was for Primož Roglič

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@derailleurkate

8 months

this is the funniest cycling tweet i have ever seen in my life

#SiempreGino

@NairoInGreen

8 months

Jonas pacing for Kuss

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@derailleurkate

11 months

“All the joy is gone immediately.” — Ide Schelling after his win today in Postojna. 💔

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@derailleurkate

2 years

Hello cycling twitter! some very exciting news: derailleur is a) now an incorporated company, and b) is looking for freelancers! We're seeking the weird, the wacky, the wonderful, with competitive web-based publishing rates.

derailleur is looking for freelancers!

finally!

derailleur.substack.com

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@derailleurkate

10 months

a watch for cycling season as an American

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@derailleurkate

1 year

TDF NETFLIX TRAILER LEAKED!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Escape Collective

@EscapeCycling

1 year

Hello world! As one our first acts, here's the trailer for the Netflix Tour de France series. We found it in a bin out back. It's excellent! Please sign up if you want to find out what else is in our bins.

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@derailleurkate

11 months

Transgender athletes historically have followed all sporting guidelines including testing within normal hormonal ranges. After significant hormone replacement therapy the body literally changes so vastly to be within regulation. There is no “advantage.”

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@derailleurkate

1 year

I am CRYING in my hotel room

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@derailleurkate

11 months

Lance forgot that people still haven’t really forgiven him huh

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@derailleurkate

11 months

Transphobes don’t care about that though and they don’t care about sports or fair play or dignity for the athlete. They care about policing gender. They care about eradicating transness and running normal people — my friends, colleagues, loved ones — out of public life.

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1 year

This is the greatest sport in the entire world

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@derailleurkate

1 year

This is the most insane day of my sports watching life

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@derailleurkate

1 year

I have made many mistakes in life and as a journalist but never on the scale of that Outside article on Mo Wilson. Jesus Christ. In no way should that piece have been published.

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@derailleurkate

1 year

SOME PERSONAL NEWS:

Escape Collective

@EscapeCycling

1 year

Welcome home, everyone.

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@derailleurkate

2 years

ordered my coffee and breakfast at the cafe entirely in Slovene without panicking and switching back to English. huge milestone in the quest against perpetual embarrassment. please clap

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@derailleurkate

1 year

adijo, tečaj 👋

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@derailleurkate

11 months

I have been very publicly and widely critical of NEOM as an architecture critic and have given lectures and made appearances on the subject since its inception so idk it’s been fun y’all. I’m about to be the most blacklisted any journalist has ever been.

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@raykerckhoffs

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NEOM City in Saoedi Arabië is heel serieus aan het onderzoeken om hoofdsponsorschap Jumbo-Visma over te nemen Lees het hele verhaal op @WielerFlits #wielrennen #sponsornieuws

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@derailleurkate

1 year

the bike I own / the cyclist I am

Matthew Beaudin

@matthewcbeaudin

1 year

@Pflax1 I think a lot of people shop for a bike based on the cyclist they hope to be, not the one they are. It’s an interesting question.

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@derailleurkate

10 months

i think pinot doing something for the glory and receiving it, alone, on the side of the mountain, was always compatible with losing the stage

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@derailleurkate

11 months

I think there’s gonna be (and I’m already seeing a bit of it) a lot of defensiveness and gatekeeping among old fans when the TDF Netflix series comes out and I just want to say gently that there is no right and wrong way or time to get into cycling

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@derailleurkate

8 months

today is the third anniversary of my pivot to cycling journalism. a lot has happened since then. glad to be here with all of you <3

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@derailleurkate

2 years

the widely held fan belief that Tadej Pogačar doesn’t need teammates is about to be put to the test

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@derailleurkate

1 year

I also respect VDP for sprinting in the hoods. Confirming my hypothesis that aerodynamics are fake if you’ve got that dog in you and he’s barking

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@derailleurkate

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getting word that ciclismo is happening

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@derailleurkate

11 months

Don’t think I can write today sorry

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@derailleurkate

2 years

Can’t believe Bianchi has made its first ever ugly bike. i will never emotionally recover from this

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@derailleurkate

2 years

wrote something short about roglič leaving the vuelta and about reaching the end of one's rope

sad story, huh?

a short note on the roglič exit

derailleur.substack.com

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@derailleurkate

7 months

Visma Lease a Bike is the funniest conclusion to all of this sorry

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@derailleurkate

11 months

As journalists we have an ethical duty to report the news and do due diligence. But we are dealing with a population facing profound state-sponsored violence and we are ethically bound to humanely report on issues that can cause real harm for vulnerable people.

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@derailleurkate

8 months

i want remco's opinion on all this so bad

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@derailleurkate

2 years

no offense but we gotta nip stan culture in cycling in the bud while there’s still time

CyclingTips

@cyclingtips

2 years

MVDP fans have taken to leaving scathing one-star reviews on Google at the hotel where his pre-Worlds incident occurred. #Wollongong2022

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@derailleurkate

11 months

Moment of silence today for Gino Mäder at the Tour of Slovenia. #siempregino

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@derailleurkate

10 months

pog has got that dog in him man

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@derailleurkate

2 years

i have been nothing but honest about my journey as a journalist through several profiles and several different platforms. I do not like it when strangers make malicious stuff up about me bc I asked a routine question to a rider they like. grow up!

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@derailleurkate

1 year

what if i showed up to cover the le tour de france wearing these bad boys

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@derailleurkate

10 months

Cycling is so unaccustomed to NBA-style trash talk that even the mildest banter has Wout van Aert talking like Sephiroth

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@derailleurkate

2 years

I liked cavendish as commentator btw @gcntweet ! More current pros as commentators please!

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@derailleurkate

8 months

can this sport be normal for one day like it’s Sunday I just got back from a group ride and now I have to reckon with the idea of a cycling Death Star

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@derailleurkate

2 years

had to ask the first doping question at the final tour press conference. this is a rite of passage that kind of sucks

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@derailleurkate

10 months

tour #3 je konec

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@derailleurkate

11 months

I muted those conversations bc some of them have turned truly vile. I don’t know what happens to people that makes their hearts so black with hate for those they don’t understand

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@derailleurkate

2 years

Adijo Ljubljana and hvala Slovenia for the best summer ever. First we spend some time apart but I will return soon 👁

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@derailleurkate

1 year

Someone get Floyd Landis in here

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@derailleurkate

10 months

Imagining an American winning on Puy du Dome, a mountain never touched by Armstrong during the Tour….real ciclismo

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@derailleurkate

2 years

a guy gets second in the tour and a warm up race to Lombardia and suddenly he’s washed? Are you serious? I feel bad for y’all’s partners bc these standards are insane

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@derailleurkate

10 months

the most relatable thing about jonas is how he is always on his phone after he does well. that's me. hey babe i just slayed at the tour. did you see? did you see me on tv? did you?

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@derailleurkate

11 months

Oh my god

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@derailleurkate

11 months

we were about as close to being friends as riders and journalists get to be. Gino believed in things far bigger than cycling and he acted on that and was never afraid to say or do what was right which is a rare quality in sports. I admired him very much

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