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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 2h

If two of the first three stages of your brand new race are time trials won by the same rider - then you have designed a shit race.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 2d

It only dawned on me after I’d pressed publish that people mightn’t know what I’m talking about. Whereas I get bombarded with Pidcock dog content by Harry from DNF trolling me all the time. Maybe I should add a link or a pic to illustrate.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 2d

The Autumn Double. Definitely a real thing.
If Pog really thinks he's great, he better get moving.

open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 2d

The Autumn Double. Definitely a real thing.
If Pog really thinks he's great, he better get moving.

open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 4d

Ah ok. Seems a bit daft. I might start a race in Ireland called Bordeaux-Paris and take all of its history.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 4d

But… they didn’t revive the name of the old race…

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 4d

What is the link between this Trofeo Tessile race and the Trofeo Baracchi? 🤔

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 4d

Pog should stop pissing about winning Lombardy over and over when what he really needs to do to prove to us he’s better than Merckx is win Paris-Tours

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 5d

None

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 6d

Oh I know! I use Dutch Wikipedia more than English one specifically because of this table.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 6d

Number of riders who have taken part in all four monument classics so far this year: 1

Tadej Pogačar

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 6d

I went wandering around my bookshelves and some archives and found a great coincidence involving Lance Armstrong (or maybe it wasn’t a coincidence?).

open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

Five minutes within the brain of a cycling geek

These are the things that reveal themselves while I'm waiting for the kettle to boil.

open.substack.com

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 6d

I went wandering around my bookshelves and some archives and found a great coincidence involving Lance Armstrong (or maybe it wasn’t a coincidence?).

open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

Five minutes within the brain of a cycling geek

These are the things that reveal themselves while I'm waiting for the kettle to boil.

open.substack.com

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 9d

Geraint Thomas wondering on his latest podcast why so many people abandoned the World Road race when the weather wasn’t even bad or anything.

Also Geraint Thomas:

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 10d

Two riders have a 100% record at the World road race. There’s quite a large clue in the image below.

BUT YOU WON’T BELIEVE THE OTHER ONE 🎣

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One and done

Race route designers need to stop and take a good look at themselves

open.substack.com

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 10d

He DNF’d in 1936 as well

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 10d

Incorrect! He finished 5th in 1927. Pay the money and find out you cheapy cheapington

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 10d

Two riders have a 100% record at the World road race. There’s quite a large clue in the image below.

BUT YOU WON’T BELIEVE THE OTHER ONE 🎣

open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

One and done

Race route designers need to stop and take a good look at themselves

open.substack.com

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 15d

Has any rider ever finished first and last at the World Road Race?

Come for the answer… stay for all the other words. 🎣

open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 14d

Yes!

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 15d

Has any rider ever finished first and last at the World Road Race?

Come for the answer… stay for all the other words. 🎣

open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 19d

Episode 24 of Did Not Finish podcast.

24!

What are you waiting for? We discuss why the likes of Froome and Bernal and Vingegaard and Thomas and Schleck and Wiggins all hate the World Road Race

open.spotify.com/episode/3GwP...

The worlds is not enough | 24

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 19d

Something very strange very nearly happened at the 2010 Worlds.

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 19d

Something very strange very nearly happened at the 2010 Worlds.

open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

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