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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 09/09/2026

Know it would not have been a mirror-image deal etc, but pro cycling might have dodged trouble by avoiding the One Cycling project in the wake of the Liv Golf implosion, both shared the same funding source

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Guillaume Martin-Guillonet elite lead-out man. I've now really seen it all Shocking how GFDJ somehow peak for the Vuelta each year

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I maintain he should have won Strade Bianche 2023. His suspicious political leaning and poor tactical capabilities made him less likeable over the years, but I will forever remember Marion Rousse's gasp when he started sprinting for the win at RVV 2022

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I thought this day would never come 🥹

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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 30/06/2026

Human rights groups call on 🌈 UCI to suspend 🇦🇪 UAE Team Emirates-XRG licence 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/huma... 📸 Cor Vos

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 22/06/2026

...this article in Le Monde from 2009 is worth a read on his unusual route to the pro peloton, and tangentially why the peloton in France doesn't reflect the whole population www.lemonde.fr/sport/articl... (🇫🇷)

lemonde.fr

Saïd Haddou, l'"Arabe" du peloton

Le rouleur de la formation Bouygues Telecom est le premier coureur d'origine maghrébine sur le Tour depuis 1954.

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Mollomalo @mollomalo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Very nice relaying Airbnb's ad, as a reminder in case any cycling journalist just forgot, they are the ongoing target of a boycott campaign for keeping listings in occupied Palestinian territories, they're getting the best sportswashing possible in terms of money spent rn

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

US media outlets are willing to butcher the English language — along with common sense and human decency — to avoid stating a basic fact: Israel is expanding its occupation of southern Lebanon

Twitter/X screenshot of CNN news headline with photo of Israeli soldiers outside Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli military has captured the Crasader-era Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, a site it hasn't held for 26 years, as it expands its incursion deeper into its neighbor's territory.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Watched my first stage of this year's Giro today and I've learned two things: - The race is losing its aura because of poor/silly stage designs, and no regard for the riders themselves; - Paul Penhoët is no longer a sprinter. Incapable of holding a teammate's wheel in the bunch. It's over.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Really baffled by MvdP still willing to work with Pog. Remco coming back is good for him, he's his only change to bridge back to Pog after the last OK/Paterberg. Unless he's already accepted defeat.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This honesty is appreciated. Riders dope not only for performance benefits, but also material ones

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Can't wait to see these two in the WT next year

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The yearly objectification of women by E3 organisers is a reminder of the same process of dehumanisation by the same country to wreck parts of Africa, which have yet to recover. It's all part of the same patriarchal/colonial logic. Disgusting.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Yesterday's MSR, when riders crashing before Cipressa end up winning and 3rd, will hopefully finally put the Arnaud Démare conspiracy theory to rest, for good.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

That was a pitch perfect stage design in Tirreno, not the first time this year. Kudos to the organisers, brilliant racing.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Wout is officially no longer a sprinter. Impressive from MvdP on such a long sprint, which used to not be his forte

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Legendary stage of Tirreno Adriatico today. The stuff that makes one fall in love with the sport (all over again).

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

American soft power at its finest. Simmons is still a fascist. Don't drink the Kool Aid.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

More of this please. Should be more common practice.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

It was criminal of GFDJ not to properly work for Gruel in Oman with that sprint of his. DS and strategy remain the team's achilles heel.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The Maxime Decomble hype train is about to leave the station. Big year ahead. Very exciting.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Two GFDJ on the podium of the U23 race. Reef Roberts 1st and Lewis Bower 3rd.

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 02/02/2026

Pro cycling angle as the "Spy Sheikh" mentioned here is Tahnoun Bin Zayed, aka "TBZ" and a big backer of the UAE team where several of the companies he chairs feature on the team kit and he effectively owns Colnago too

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Beating Jonathan Milan is a good argument for someone on contract year

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 29/01/2026

Pogačar is the new face of KuCoin, a cryptocurrency trading company. This company has been fined several times and last autumn its Thai subsdiary was linked to Cambodian "pig butchering" scam schemes by investigative reporters, see whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/indicted-cry... ...

whalehunting.projectbrazen.com

Indicted Crypto Firm KuCoin and a Thaksin Ally Allegedly Built a Money-Laundering Network Across Southeast Asia

A criminal network connected to disgraced crypto firm KuCoin and a Thai political dynasty is moving hundreds of millions of dollars in dirty money across Southeast Asia, and U.S. law enforcement wants...

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Not just with pros. It's not cool to suck someone's wheel without asking if it's okay to tag along.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Putting aside the advert modelled as journalism, it's funny that the "science-led" stuff pros take has been the staples of hippies for ages. This is the new spirit of capitalism, sniffing new marketing opportunities. Can't wait to buy branded onions to cure head colds.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I didn't really miss WT cycling in the end 😔

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Two GFDJ alumni on the podium today, while the team's best rider comes in 79th place... 🥲

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I am finally hyped. Especially about GFDJ racing De Brabantse Pijl again.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I think we may have found the due successor to Richie Porte in terms of bland interviews

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Lick Bush Dick '04 was an all-time meme

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

L'hôpital se fout de la charité

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I know a go-slow protest when I see one. Make 'em pay for what you're worth comrade!

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Peter Cossins @petercossins.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Given recent events in cycling, this is worth a read on how the UAE is using Colombian mercenaries to fight a proxy war in Sudan having done the same in Yemen.

theguardian.com

‘War is a business’: the Colombian mercenaries at Sudan’s battlefront

A soldier of fortune tells of lucrative contracts, the siege of El Fasher and training child fighters to ‘go and get killed’

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Tim Bonville-Ginn @timbonvilleginn.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

O Gran Camiño 🇪🇸 are the first race to ban Israel-Premier Tech from taking part in their race. The entertaining and challenging Galician week long race may pave the way for other races to take the step to ban the team in 2026.

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Chrissy Marshall-Bell @cmbreports.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Spanish Government replies to the UCI's statement, pointing out that the UN has just declared Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide. Brutal final words: "Peace without justice is peace in the graveyard." Lappartient is out of his depth. He is not protecting cycling with his actions and words.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

You can't stay neutral on a moving train dude

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Katie @medicinexthings.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Selective journalism be like:

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Any insights into their performances explaining that everything is planned and calculated to the smallest margin will forever be discarded

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Lol no man Kennedy's a tool, and sorry you got kicked out. Great if it's helpful. What these doctors and researchers are saying is that now in most cases such a diagnosis doesn't help at all. Having a name for such differences isn't a thing in many countries. Hence my first response, because irony.

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Vélo de gauche @velodegauche.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

"The first active pro..." I mean it's not a coincidence he comes from a country plagued with overdiagnosis and overmedicalisation

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