Tour de France 2021

Yeah it’s like a week after the Olympics we got a Vuelta. Full times! But yes the unreality of the Olympics is clear enough

WOUT!!!

i fully teared up

that was an exciting final lap, chaos reigns, wout snatches the victory, jumbo just the little team that could, what a great + ~wild~ tour this has been

What I like about it is that while there's certainly every chance that Pogacar could lock down things for a couple more years to come, that's not guaranteed necessarily and he did finally break the Ineos 'sit on everyone's heads' masterplan. Just thinking even only five years back about how every day of coverage seemed to be another set of occasionally interesting day races intercut with footage of grim-faced lookalike Sky types grinding out a peloton pace so Froome could win...you can't argue with success but you sure as hell could argue with lack of flair.

yeah it def makes for better viewing

i did like this exchange the other day though

Thought we’d get the band back together 🤣 #TDF2021 pic.twitter.com/COzAtR32XU

— Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) July 16, 2021

https://t.co/hUwYoApozD pic.twitter.com/Ibny8JFhh7

— Chris Froome (@chrisfroome) July 16, 2021

Okay now I want the world where mysteriously for a day said groups do a prince/pauper switch, with Harry trying to bike up Mont Ventoux past his screaming fans while Geraint Thomas patiently explains his strategy for working with Stevie Nicks to an arena audience.

"Liam is broken...really he is."

lmao

loved Cav’s youngest kitted out in the same gear as his dad <3 i heard Cav say in an interview a couple of weeks ago that his youngest was mad keen about cycling

This picture 💚#TDF2021
Photo: @GettySport pic.twitter.com/1N1J5xwno6

— Deceuninck-QuickStep (@deceuninck_qst) July 18, 2021

All three of his kids were great (as were van Aert's, Vingegaard's and especially Carapaz's 'do we really have to be here' kids). I do like how the middle kid there thanks to the haircut and Keith Haring shirt is basically halfway to forming some kind of band.

yes! so rad

lastly, a v hilarious thread re this year’s round of Panini stickers. well worth a read

Here it is then, Panini #TDF2021 stickers and what I think the riders look like.

The difficult second album 📖🧵

— tom owen (@tomowencc) July 13, 2021

Egan Bernal injured while training in Columbia, possible broken femur, hope he's alright:

https://www.velonews.com/news/road/breaking-egan-bernal-in-the-hospital-following-crash/

ugh right into a bus :( nasty

Oof. Not good! Hope he heals up well.