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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Please explain to me how you can call it from that photo?? If I were Italy I would be appealing...

James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Possibly unpopular opinion… World and European champs should be on courses that are the polar opposite of one another - especially when they are ridden within a week of each other

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just heard an osteopath diagnose someone with a mal-alignment of the knee Sorry but at what point do we just stay stop it

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One would have thought that an AI model that could hack a government portal would be capable of finding a specific email address

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Took my son to the eye doctor this morning (check up) He told me in the waiting room he needed the bathroom and wanted to be picked up I picked him up to carry him there and he proceeded to throw up into my face So yeah - today started well 🤢🤮

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The UCI has a new safeguarding program.... While well intentioned it's maybe not the msot accurate...

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Still find it amusing that everyone who ever posts about the Dunning-Kruger effect and Mount Stupid is someone posting from Mount Stupid about Dunning-Kruger's findings which is also quite ironic, as the 'curve' and Mount Stupid are not present in the original research

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La Vuelta @lavuelta.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Stage 1️⃣4️⃣ | Etapa 1️⃣4️⃣ 🏆 Marco Brenner - Tudor Pro Cycling Team 🏆 🔥 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐈𝐍 🔥 #LaVuelta26 👋 Cofidis Likes Ciclismo

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In sports science and applied practice its all too often those that have never experienced the coal face that are telling everyone how to mine

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Earlier this week, I asked which tie knot you think looks better. Of course, you can wear whichever you like. But here's the social history behind both knots and why some people consider one better than the other. 🧵

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Being on a grand tour is just surprising yourself every day at what routine and mundane thing you forgot to do today in a completely new environment

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Sadhbh O'Shea @sadhbhos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Love that the hotel that housed the peloton yesterday has been flooded with 5* reviews, including from the peloton. Sounds like they really rose to the occasion. I hope they received a tip for helping out.

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 25/08/2026

... hotel manager quickly opened up the bar, serving hot drinks and let riders/staff use rooms to get changed. He said holidaymakers + staff enjoyed the experience and challenge rmcsport.bfmtv.com/cyclisme/vid... (🇫🇷) while Marino got on his moto to go tell team busses at the finish where to go.

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La Vuelta (E3) : "On a juste fait notre métier", G. Villeneuve témoigne après avoir hébergé tout le peloton dans son hôtel

VIDEO - L'étape 3 du Tour d'Espagne a pris une tournure complètement inattendue après un orage de grêle qui a contraint les coureurs à s'arrêter à 16 kilomètres de l'arrivée prévue à Font-Romeu. L'éta...

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 25/08/2026

Several stories & pictures about the Igesa Mont-Louis hotel taking in the Vuelta riders yesterday. L'Equipe reports it happened in part because once the organisers announced the cancellation moto regulator Jean-Marc Marino (an ex-pro) knew the hotel and got riders to follow him towards the shelter..

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Absolutely ridiculous Hansen added: "To close every single road and driveway is difficult and it gets to the point how little risk the organisers want to take and if it's even possible for them to have people at all those points." Sort the safety of the sport out and stop making excuses

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My girlfriend just described a male friend of ours as 'also going grey' not happy

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If the UCI is really interested in fair completion then they should flip the rules on leaders jerseys & TT suits Rather than having a rider wear one provided by the race and the team logo added

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

An informed perspective - this level of reflection, nuance and clarity is why it’s better to listen to experts over those with ‘legitimate questions’

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Legitimate things one should know before questioning those that made the decision to close schools… How many lives are the school closures estimated to have saved? What was the quantified impact on the education of school aged kids in that period What was the economic effect of these closures

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My 3 year old to my gf this morning… ‘Papa says that if you don’t get enough coffee you get complicated’

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A pre-requisition of any anti doping program should be that it doesn’t itself create an unfair environment for competition 2am controls mid Tour de France cross that line in my opinion

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Niche complain…. So much of mountain education focuses on rescue skills and not on the assessment of risk Mountains come with risk People need an ability to judge what objective dangers there are, the likelihood of occurrence is given the circumstances AND what to do if things go sideways

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A fellow wood fire bbq user had to ask to use my fire this evening to cook his dinner as it was better than his - mega hunter gatherer pride points 🙈😅

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There seems to be a whole industry designed to convince you that how you are using AI is the reason that AI is so shit? If Claude was as smart as you say it is I wouldn’t need to improve my ‘prompts’ #grifters

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The UCI actually has a pretty solid hot weather protocol… However I don’t more than a handful of people have read it and whether it gets followed is another question…. but tbh the protocol itself is pretty good

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Potty training + a 8hr drive means a lot of stopping! I think we have seen every service station from Innsbruck to Milan 🙈

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 11/07/2026

Tour de France venturing into pain au chocolat vs chocolatine frontier territory today

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The line about parliamentary rules being quite clear is absolutely wonderful

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

People of Clacton - you have the chance to do the funniest thing…..don’t waste it

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I think the thing that Farage has missed is that even if he wins and is re-elected ….the press could simply keep asking #genius

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 01/07/2026

The route of every Tour de France stage from 1903-2025 plotted onto one map. Cartography by Romain Courvoisier 🎩

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

British PM: Vacant James Bond: Vacant Doctor Who: Vacant If the King disappears in the next couple of weeks I think we may sink into the ocean.

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Quite incredible that Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the Labour Party longer than Kier Starmer will be

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Incredible really that you can build a career simply by being the guy who sets up the podium and the sound in Downing Street when a PM is resigning

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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

He’s a fundamentally decent bloke who’s been really badly advised and made some really crap decisions in a job no sane person would want. But where Labour was when he took over to where it is now. Pretty incredible really.

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A classic parenting moment…my son got me out of bed at 5:29 this morning to show me he had tied a string between 2 things!

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

AI doesn't actually inform - it gives people the perception of being informed Sadly, that's all a lot of people are looking for

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Top tip to journal editors If you chase me about a review that I haven’t said yes or no to on a Sunday afternoon (when you only sent me the invite on Thursday) - it’ll be an automatic no I am not going to be allow myself to be chased in non business hours to do free work for a for profit journa

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Too harsh or lazy on the author's part?

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Unpopular opinion - UCI was actually consistent and correct in DQ’ing Wiebes The rules say if your bike is measured under 6.8kg you’re out This was applied Tbh I would be more concerned (as someone that works in the sport) if they hadn’t followed their own rules (which is so often the case)

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The French motorbikes trying to reinstate the motor pacing races of old in mayenne

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just seen a report from a test at an Olympic Training Centre that gave an athlete bLa zones Does no one teach basic physiology anymore? (they also identifed both LT1 and LT2 wrong!)

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Why not just apply the normal 3/5km rules to the last lap? Surely that a more sensible approach

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Giro d'Italia Men @giroditalia.stadio.top · 24/05/2026

Greatest TV Graphic of all time 👀 📺 Follow the #Giroditalia on TV, and on socials, wherever you are 🌐

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James Spragg @james-spragg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Competency is no longer a valued attribute in our society

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