After over 25 years as a manager of a pro cycling team Jean-René Bernaudeau is retiring, will hand over the TotalEnergies team to Stéphane Heulot who had been running the Lotto team until recently www.ouest-france.fr/sport/cyclis... (🇫🇷)

Look at this 4th cen BC Greek antefix, proof that our ancestors also appreciated A Very Good Boy. 13/10 would pet

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Thought it said Nero at first!

Boils my piss when companies say this

Team Amani launches women's UCI team with the aim of racing Tour de France Femmes by 2028 Team will be the first ever African women's UCI team, featuring riders from Ethiopia and Rwanda globalpeloton.substack.com/p/team-amani...

Nästa gång ni hör någonting om Malmö som ett ekonomiskt sänke, tänk på den här bilden – hur rika kommuner som Vellinge, Lomma och Staffanstorp är helt beroende av Malmö, som genererar inkomster som sedan hamnar någon annanstans. Malmö är Skånes stora ekonomiska motor.

Bernhard Eisel (DS) -> @lidltrek.bsky.social #SillySeason

Incredibly naive. Basically kills off any career path for Over Head Line teams. The industry will down skill to repair and maintenance alone. Kills off any investment or innovation in OLE too. Bet they announce a new road or airport expansion within a month.

As seen on The Tim Traveller's latest youtube video, the 59th annual Sevilla-Betis Boat Race will start today at 11:30 CET on the Guadalquivir, well-known winter training water for Dutch and UK rowers. The good kind of #rowing between two local football clubs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX6j...

Wenn ich mir von meinen Nachbarn Rückmeldungen erhoffe, sollte ich deren Sprache vielleicht mit ein bisschen mehr Respekt behandeln... #Polnisch #Bundeswehr

Marine Lenehan -> @lidltrek.bsky.social #SillySeason

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Well-meaning (or not) Americans in anyone's mentions: I have used public transit for 33 years and never once carried or needed or wanted pepper spray. Get a grip. Attacks on public transportation in the UK and in the US are extremely rare.

Yet another talent added to the cast for my beloved imaginary cycling cabaret... 🤩🙏🏻

The difference in the time it takes a streetcar in Amsterdam vs. Toronto to clear an intersection after servicing a nearside stop.

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A massive amount of Bundesliga teams stopped posting on Bluesky, so some of their last messages seem like they got raptured midgame and no account did that better than Hoffenheim

Thought the Times had been hoaxed. Turns out to be so much better than that

This is also a good point which gets underreported, which I should have mentioned. Senate majorities are also tricky to piece together bsky.app/profile/roba...

A few election outcomes which are somewhat obvious but got lost in the Jettenmania: -FvD, who *literally* think the world is run by lizards disguised as humans,more than doubled their seats (3 -> 7) -BBB’s angry farmer schtick is sooo 2023. They lost nearly half their seats. (7->4) Good riddance.

I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out

Hear the story behind the rise of Unibet Rose Rockets. Founder 🇳🇱 Bas Tietema on building one of the most unconventional teams in cycling. 📺 youtu.be/isI04xw5uHg 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0rtY... 👉 Liked it? Sharing means a lot 🙏

What seemed likely to be a case of missing paperwork for Jayco-AlUla is in fact a case of missing funds. escapecollective.com/gerry-ryans-...

🇮🇹Alessandro De Marchi🗣️ "On my birthday in 2018, my fans from the Red Passion group were waiting for me on the Zoncolan. During the stage, I stopped there, they sang happy birthday to me, I had a glass of beer, and then I rode on to the finish" 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/ales... 📸 Cor Vos

Lottie’s annual day of torment, the day the clocks go back. Extremely tough day to be a little chocolate dog whose belly says it’s dinner time and that the clocks are lying.

Why has this become socially acceptable?

Die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung widerspricht dem "Stadtbild"-Narrativ. Das zeigt eine ZDF-Umfrage, die aber vom Sender komplett ins Gegenteil verdreht wurde. Eine gravierender Fehler für den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk. www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...

Wij hebben twee leuke dagen in Fryslân gehad en onze vrienden van de @fnpfryslan.bsky.social geholpen met de verkiezingskampagne. Tige tank, oant sjen & #WyKommeDeroan! 🔵⚪❤️

This is what "active mobility" looks like when it's treated as an afterthought. This level of incompetence would never be tolerated for car infrastructure. It's hostile, undignified, and absurd.

"Leider haben wir auf unserer heutigen Fahrt nach Cottbus keine Sonderzeichen an Bord. Grund sind Verzögerungen aus dem Ausland." #Łužica #Lausitz #Bahn

The border between Cantwara rīce (Kingdom of the Kentish) & Sūþseaxna rīce (South Saxons) is still the border between the counties of Kent & Sussex A 1,400 year old ditch created to stop conflict, by marking the border to avoid confusion, is our southern woodland boundary

Lotto-Intermarché merger officially official! The licence application has been submitted by the paying agent of the Lotto team, which has a few consequences: 1/2

#Bahnzeit in Rendsburg - Schleife & Hochbrücke sind immer wieder ein Erlebnis! /cc @jaroslavrudis.bsky.social

Confirmation that Knijnenburg won the GC (via @elsterrato.bsky.social on 🐦). #TOCI2025 #TourOfChongmingIsland #Chongming #UCIWWT

UNOFFICIAL final GC (my calculations): 1 Knijnenburg 2 S vRooijen +1" (stage placing countback 13) 3 Dronova +1" (79) 4 R Markus +1" (114) 5 Docx +7" (48) 6 K Swinkels +7" (53) #TOCI2025 #TourOfChongmingIsland #Chongming #UCIWWT

Waiting for confirmation - but as the peloton is at least 15" behind, Anne Knijnenburg (VolkerWessels) should take the GC by one or two seconds ahead of Sofie van Rooijen! #TOCI2025 #TourOfChongmingIsland #Chongming #UCIWWT

Surprise ending as a group of 9 gets away in the final, Talbot (Liv AlUla Jayco) wins the sprint. #TOCI2025 #TourOfChongmingIsland #Chongming #UCIWWT

Virtual GC after today's 3 intermediate sprints: 1 S. vRooijen 2 Balsamo +7" 3 Griffin +8" 4 Baker +8" 10", 6", 4" bonifications at the finish; everybody else is 15" or more behind. #TOCI2025 #TourOfChongmingIsland #Chongming #UCIWWT

Riders signing in, lining up for the start, seven (7!) people sounding horns for the neutral start ... this is not what I want or need in a race broadcast! #TOCI2025 #TourOfChongmingIsland #Chongming #UCIWWT

🇳🇱 Dutch rider Jan-Willem van Schip (Parkhotel Valkenburg) has been disqualified from the NIBC Tour of Holland following stage 1 for riding with a seatpost that allegedly violates UCI regulations. 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/jan-... 📸 Cor Vos

I get it’s kind of a story but this is also essentially “George Ford chooses to continue being employed instead of investing everything into this Ponzi scheme”

Afgezien van het kwalijke gebruik van het euphemisme “rechts-conservatief” voor uiterst-rechts, zijn veel vragen veel te abstract om iets zinnigs te kunnen zeggen over de resultaten — om nog te zwijgen over het feit dat ze worden gedecontextualiaeerd.

As the WorldTour makes its annual sojourn to China, here's a look at the striking development of road cycling in the worlds second-most populous nation and the impact it could have on the sport in the coming years 🇨🇳 globalpeloton.substack.com/p/the-worldt...

… and Ukrainians, who are given decent accommodation and psychological support, able to work from day one, don't inspire violent “protests“, and according to a report boosted the economy by €3.5bn last year. I wonder if there are any lessons to be learned here. www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/v...

Fascinating thing about the Dutch obsession with asylum is that the Netherlands is running a unique experiment with two groups: non-European refugees, who are cooped up in abysmal conditions, excluded from everything and blamed for social disruption, petty crime and inciting far-right hooliganism …

Superfijn dat @postnl.bsky.social voor het versturen van een tweedehands boek uit de VS van 8,54 euro zogenaamde 'afhandelingskosten' van 8 euro rekent. Echt lekker in proportie.

Matteo Sobrero -> @lidltrek.bsky.social #SillySeason