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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What has the 1988 Vuelta got to do with anything? Oh.. and Harry is a cunt. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/youre-no-e...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What has the 1988 Vuelta got to do with anything? Oh.. and Harry is a cunt. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/youre-no-e...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lance Armstrong broke his C7 vertebra in August 2000 and rode and won the GP des Nations 17 days later. Details here. Anyone know if he’s mentioned this on his podcast in the context of Pog and the Euros? cilliankelly.substack.com/p/them-bones...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m a dickhead… which I realised listening back on myself. So I have reassessed what is impressive and done some numbers nerdification. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/gary-imlac...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ben Healy is the first Irish rider to finish in the top 10 of the Worlds 3 years in a row. Sean Kelly finished in the top 10 seven times but never three years in a row.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The LinkedIn post is going to be off the charts

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Worlds will be more exciting without Pog. This is a fact, not an opinion. If you enjoy boring long-range solo victories masked in a cloak of 'witnessing greatness' well that's fine. But it's not exciting. We don't know what is going to happen, which is more exciting than knowing.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Current desk stack. Why are mainland European publications always upside down?

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What is the point in leaving the time of the 1st placed rider on the screen once the rider in picture has gone over it already? The next best time should then appear as the time to beat, and so on. It’s brainless. They have decided to do it this way. I cannot fathom it.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What a lovely endorsement from Daniel Arribas (off of the Vuelta coverage on The Cycling Podcast). You can find The Backpedal here! open.substack.com/pub/cilliank... 🙌🏼

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Paul O'Toole @endodoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you don’t subscribe to Cillian’s blog-thingy, you’re really missing out. Always spot-on and brilliantly funny.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What happened to Soigneur magazine?

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Former Tour de France winner massive front door competition. Andy Schleck vs Egan Bernal

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Riders who skip the Worlds are shite. Shouldn’t be allowed. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/youre-not-...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Riders who skip the Worlds are shite. Shouldn’t be allowed. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/youre-not-...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If Evenepoel wins in Canada, he’d be 1st ever rider to win on 6 different continents:  Europe - lots Africa - 2025 Worlds TT Rwanda Asia - 2023 UAE Tour Oceania - 2022 Worlds in Australia South America - 2020 Vuelta a San Juan in Argentina North America - ??????

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The others in the top 10 have collectively time trialled against Primoz Roglic 118 times. Current score: Primoz Roglic 118 - 0 Everyone else

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

None of the other top 10 riders on GC have ever finished ahead of Primoz Roglic in a time trial ever.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This Grand Tour is starting to take its toll. Rest day badly needed. Get your nerd facts here... the paywall line is really far down on this one, I swear. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/eggses-he-...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This Grand Tour is starting to take its toll. Rest day badly needed. Get your nerd facts here... the paywall line is really far down on this one, I swear. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/eggses-he-...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Tour of Britain leader’s jersey being green is contrary nonsense. Absolute bollocks.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This came on in the car and my daughter read it out as “You Can Call Me A.I.” ffs

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s perfectly fine to feel great sadness and empathy for Pog while also taking some happiness that this bike race will be more interesting as a result. Bike races are complicated. People are complicated. It’s possible to feel two things. It is normal.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Becoming more and more confident that Pog and Brennan will win all 20 stages between them.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sign up for The Backpedal and read fantastic things about weird things. It’s the best corner of the cycling internet. But don’t take my word for it. Here’s what my even-balder-than-me erstwhile podcast co-host had to say. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/bernard-hi...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You can’t trust Google anymore. You can’t even trust the BBC. Everything is fucked cilliankelly.substack.com/p/bernard-hi...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You can’t trust Google anymore. You can’t even trust the BBC. Everything is fucked cilliankelly.substack.com/p/bernard-hi...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

GC after Stage 4 1st Tadej Pogacar 2nd Primoz Roglic The previous (and only) time this was the scenario in any race ever was the final stage of the 2020 Tour de France.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Rather unbelievably, that's the first time a Slovenian has won a road stage of the Vuelta in the red jersey. Primoz Roglic won 15 stages of the Vuelta and wore the leaders jersey for 42 stages but somehow managed to never win a road stage while wearing the red jersey.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

That’s it. That was the last opportunity for Pog to lose the jersey. He will be the first rider since Tony Rominger in 1994 to lead a Grand Tour from start to finish.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Was reminded of this today cilliankelly.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cavendish Paris-Tours The UCI Julian Alaphilippe Making a complete bollocks of cycling It's all here. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/the-wiggly...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cavendish Paris-Tours The UCI Julian Alaphilippe Making a complete bollocks of cycling It's all here. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/the-wiggly...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Bring back the forgotten classement cilliankelly.substack.com/p/the-forgot...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Get rid of the mountains. Tear them all down. Put them in the bin. cilliankelly.substack.com/p/no-more-al...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Maybe they should have neutralised the GC for this stage. For safety.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I think Dani Rowe is the best pundit on TNT

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That's Kasia Niewiadoma's first stage win in any race for more than 7 years.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Blending in nicely with the locals 👌🏼

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Someone I knew intimately died yesterday. But I didn’t really know them at all. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Someone I knew intimately died yesterday. But I didn’t really know them at all. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Nobody told me they changed the logo at some stage over the past 40 years. Don’t like it. Not happy.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

That's the third ever team 1-2 on the Champs Élysées: 2026 - Alpecin - Van der Poel/Philipsen 2009 - HTC - Cavendish/Renshaw 1998 - Mapei - Steels/Zanini

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

For Rob Hatch to have the presence of mind to say “We will never ever see anything like that ever again” as a callback to his Amstel commentary 🤌

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I will be putting an asterisk next to Del Toro’s podium and white jersey in all future stats. Justice for Paul Fuckbutt

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