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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To clarify: My ick with this is not about Uno-X bending their rules. It’s about the rules being tied to nationality and genetic heritage, rather than providing opportunities in the region or fitting well together culturally. The latter is practical, whereas I find the former ideological.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At this point, just go international. I can understand the point of singular region teams for furthering the sport in that region, having a shared language and culture. But as soon as you’re taking riders whose only connection to the region is genetic, the concept gets a bit of an ick for me.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Giro Del Emilia and Kuurne-Brussles-Kuurne should be World Tour races. And I am not saying this because Visma won them both. I‘d feel the same if Pogacar had won them.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Caught up on today's races. Davide Piganzoli WOW 🥳🥳🥳 That was great teamwork all race. Also both Matteo and Ben very impressive. As for Münsterland, I'm very happy for Kooij, but what the heck was Brennan doing? Why did he just swing off before the sprint?
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
omg they got the other brother? 🥳🥳🥳
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah and what if those guys are in the break or dropped from the peloton and race radio needs to warn the peloton of an upcoming really dangerous spot with snow melt on it or something? Also have we forgotten about the falling into a ravine issue? I swear these people don't think before talking.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't understand why Sacrifice is getting bad reviews. It was very fun 😃
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Menno Huising has quitely developed into a really good all-round domestique. Visma will probably extend him after next year, but if not, he'll get offers from good teams. He's going to be riding a lot of Grand Tours in his career, me thinks.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Floof to cheer you up
A very very fluffy yellow and green budgie on a swing in his cage.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He decided to prove me wrong. Good kid.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is remarkable how consistent Jørgen Nordhagen is at being at the very end of the peloton in every race 😑 Except when he has to pull. Little bee did a great job in the Vuelta. But here he doesn't have to pull. He's just gonna drop at some point, way earlier than he would have to drop normally 🤷‍♀️
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April || the tortured cyclists department @aforestfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As long as one of the 20 year old twinks don’t win worlds I’m good
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paradigm-of-life.bsky.social @paradigm-of-life.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
u23 greatness
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So it appears that on the few races a year that I can't watch, Visma riders become world champions 🤔
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OMG Viki 😍 I was out all day yesterday and couldn’t watch, I‘m so upset I missed it 😭
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Jez Cox @jezcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Robbie McEwen and I are commentating for the whole Junior mens road race tonight on TNT Sports and streaming on HBO Max. As always there is little out there on many of these riders. If any of you have genuine info or background on riders, do get in touch either here or better by jez@jezcox.com
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ummm... I feel like you're forgetting about someone here?? He won it twice in a row arriving solo. I think he maybe had pretty good chances in those races? 🤔
Photo of Julien Alaphilippe with a WC photo and medal.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This was an unusual move, but I think it's fair to say even from the outside that it turned out well. He won more races in 2 years on Q36.5 than he did in 4 years on Ineos, and while he surprisingly didn't get a WT win yet, he's clearly in the form of his life, with 2nd in MSR and a Vuelta podium.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I feel like this might get political in some rare circumstances, concerning eligibility for the jersey, or riders refusing to wear a jersey for a nation they don't want to be associated with anymore. It will be wholesome in many cases, but I still think we don't need more national symbols in sport.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You know how in the US, school shootings are tragically so common that a new shooting doesn't even start a serious debate about better gun control anymore? We're at the point in cycling where deaths in races and in training are so common that a new death doesn't even start a safety debate anymore.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is another loss in Visma's management structure, but reading between the lines, this one sounds more like a mutual parting of ways after the end of the contract. It seems like both sides felt that a new direction was needed.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
At what point do we need a UCI rule that teams have to be top 25 in the world ranking at the end of the year to keep their WT licence? Picnic are taking the spot away from worthier teams at this point. For context, Groupama are the 2nd worst WT team at 20th. They are 4700 points ahead of 25th.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Maybe I'm reading the room wrong and Ralph Denk and Remco have a close personal relationship. But if not, then isn't it a bit weird for your boss to get a tattoo of your personal accomplishments? Idk, I would feel a bit weird about it... But again, I don't know them, maybe Remco thinks it's great.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Road surface aside, it seems a bit amateurish for the national coach to not have taken a look at the *world championship course* before the recon a day before the race?? His and Remco's reactions in this article make it sound like they haven't even looked at streetview or driven the course before 🤔
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
World Championship ITT and American Football at exactly the same time tonight... That is very poor coordination by US American and Canadian authorities. Really shows how much relations between those two countries have deteriorated 😐
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This Luxembourg TT today illustrates quite well how hard it is to properly evaluate TT course profiles. Does this look like a climbing TT to you? Only if you look really closely maybe. But judging by the results, it clearly suited climbers quite well. It was a properly hard hill TT at the very least
Today's Luxembourg TT profile.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wooooo 🥳🥳🥳 I was hoping for him to keep the GC lead, I did not expect him to win the TT outright, wow!!!
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Holy shit
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pomelos take a freaking eternity to peel, like this actually took me 45 minutes. But man, are they delicious, I just have to buy them. Until last year I didn’t even know they existed, I had no clue what I was missing out on, they‘re so good. And I can just peel one on my desk while I watch Youtube.
Photo of a large bowl with peels of a citrus fruit, next to a smaller plastic container with pieces of a pomelo.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very impressive by Piganzoli!
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I've officially graduated my teaching degree 🥳
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Tim Geerestein @timqwe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Visma marketing team really playing the long game
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The thing with people telling you "stop procrastinating, your problems won't solve themselves" is that sometimes they do 🤔
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Bring in Jonas Vingegaard. He can be a great moral booster at the start line and make some kids happy with autographs. And then when he DNFs after the 2nd lap, he can be an additional man to hand out bottles in the feed zone, which is invaluable in a race as attritional as this.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Can't wait to impulse buy a budgie again to drown my sorrows when they get eliminated from the playoffs 😍
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oh my god the Jaguars play in just over 2 hours!!!! I may have to dual-screen the Wout win and the first Trevor touchdown of the game, but that's ok. We can be happy about multiple things at once 😌
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I disagree with this, I think neutralizing GC in the final GT stage should become the norm. Montmartre has shown twice now that if anything it allows the stage to be even more open. And let's be honest, the only GC change that can realistically happen is a crash and no one wants that on stage 21.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Btw, this was so cute
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Walked home from the restaurant. 30s after I left there, the heavens decided to open and apocalyptical rain started pouring down. 20s before I reached my front door, the rain suddenly stopped again. The whole walk was just 5 minutes. I am absolutely soaked. Why did it have to be those 5 minutes???
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hot(?) take: as far as blatant sponsorship PR stunts go, this is a pretty good one. It's unique, it doesn't impede the racing itself, and it gets people talking. Good idea 🤷‍♀️😅
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In less than 9 hours there will be Jaguars football on my screen 🥹
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Katia Goossens @misswildgirl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sepp Kuss really attacked twice at the right time. Especially the first one was good because if he would have waited longer and Carapaz attacked, he would have been dropped like Onley and Omrzel and couldn’t have made it back to attack a second time. Really chef’s kiss and hat off to the team!
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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 12/09/2026
🇺🇸 Kuss moves up to fifth at 🇪🇸 Vuelta with daring last-ditch raid 🗣️ “Hats off to the team: we had a plan and it was just like the stars aligning in every moment of the race and every single guy on the team had a part in it.” 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/i-ha... 📸 Cor Vos
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Tim Geerestein @timqwe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Also reminder, this is his 5th GT in a row, starting at the 2025 Tour.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sepp Kuss riding three GTs in a year twice, and getting 1st and 5th in GC in the respective third one. That is actually remarkable.
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Chef Hiking @chefhiking.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#GCKuss of all the riders that rode all three Grand Tours Sepp Kuss had the lowest total making him the best GC rider of the year! #LaVuelta26
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Tim Geerestein @timqwe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
From 4th in the Tour to scrapping with a 20yo first year neopro for the Vuelta white jersey. Prosecute Ineos for their crimes against GC riders.
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Need Carapaz to explode worse than Kuss
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Goldblue 💗🐝💗 @goldbluebirdie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Nordhagen > Widar on the queen stage btw 😌 (No shade to Widar, he is not a pure GC rider, as he says. But as Belgians won't accept.)
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Tim Geerestein @timqwe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Bluesky hyvemind
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