The Opening Weekend is just around the corner, and so is March a month with multiple major races, including the first Monument of the year #MSR 🇮🇹, as well as Strade Bianche, classics like E3, and Paris–Nice / Tirreno–Adriatico🚴🚴‍♀️ There’s a lot to look forward to in March! 🌸✨

The Winter Olympics is over 🥲 I've never enjoyed one as much as this. Falling in love with new sports, discovering amazing new athletes, screaming at the TV as I became an expert in ALL the things. Brilliant. Already planning to be there in Nice in four years time!

Everyone watching the hockey final doing OK? Are we OK? I'm not very OK. I might be quite stressed.

Macklin Celebrini about to play for gold for Canada in the final of the Olympic ice hockey and Paul Seixas fighting for the win in Portugal, wow it's a big day for my two 19-year-old sons 🥹

The figure skating gala is such a lovely idea but it's so funny to imagine what other sports might do if they had an event at the end that wasn't competitive where they could just show off their skills 😂 End of the Tour de France - everyone does wheelies and track stands. What else?!

FINALLY thought I might get to celebrate a Paul Penhoët victory... oh so close 😭

This was a blip maybe? Given the current evidence all I've done is uncover another sport in which French men can break my heart 😆

Two weeks ago I'd never had believed I'd be sitting glued to the biathlon but one afternoon spent getting incredibly over-invested in the French men's relay team and here we are.

This fella is so famous over here that no matter if I call him Enzo Sevastopol or Rambo Van Der Poele or Kenco Evercool people know exactly who I mean

ROCKETS TO THE GIRO! Let's gooooo 🤩

It is nearly March and after 7 weeks of sitting in my front room by the fire keeping warm and watching sport and denying reality and fucking up my back good and proper, I've finally given in and am sitting at my actual desk. It was the messed up back that finally broke me 😭

This sucks so much 😭

OK I need to talk about ski mountaineering. It's so.... short. And success seems overly reliant on the ability to whip off a long pair of socks.

This jersey is so sick. (That's what cool young people say so I hear). Actually would wear this to the pub. Probably.

Apparently my emotional health is now entirely dependent on two 19-year-old boys, it's probably normal right? Normal? Yes. Good, glad I checked.

CELEBRINIIIIIIII 🤩🤩

This Winter Olympics I've really gotten into the figure skating and cross-country skiing of all kinds. Repeating daily 'you do not need another sport to get obsessed with' and then all these incredible people do awesome things on my screen WHAT CAN I DO, PEOPLE I'M SO WEAK 😅

🇫🇷 Cholet Agglo Tour cancelled following ruling on Bastille Day fireworks tragedy The Cholet Agglo Tour will not take place this year after a French court banned the company behind the race from organising events. 📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/chol... 📸 Cor Vos

MY SON SCORED FOR CANADA I AM SO PROUD 😭😭

Lutalo Muhammad on TNT Sports is so great, love his energy and excitement, he's a proper ray of sunshine! 🤩

Eventful run this morning. Sleet, hail, wind, frozen fingers, and a flooded underpass. I prefer to run in colder conditions generally but this is taking it a bit far 🙃

Men's ice hockey is underway, first blood Slovakia*! I'm fizzing for this competition. And tomorrow MY OWN SON** starts for Canada 😍😭 *If you saw this post before with the wrong team name you didn't see it **not actually my son

Moguls skiing makes me feel nothing but vicarious knee pain.

Another day of cramming as much winter sport into my eyeballs as is physically possible, to block out the misery of the never-ending precipitation. It's a tonic. Men's ice hockey starts this afternoon 🤩

Great to see Ned up in my neck of the woods last night, a really fascinating and amusing Q&A with another great writer, Harry Pearson. Definitely worth a listen!

I find myself leaning while I'm watching speed skating what the hell 😅

Lukáš Kubiš has finished on the podium in 10 out of the past 20 race days that he's completed - including 6 x 2nd places. That's a crazy consistent record without a win 🤯

Downhill skiing, ice hockey, skiathlon, freestyle skiing, and there's still an England rugby match to watch. Oh and Gladiators is on later 😂 And that's without any of the cycling or CX, what a day of sport.

Men's downhill final, what a way to kick off the first weekend of the Winter Olympics 🤩 Was very much team Italy so really happy to see them take two medals, what a spectacle on the Stelvio ⛷️💥

Waking up to Georgie B in the ferns for another year, not a bad way to start a Saturday 😍

This is such a shame. If anyone can bounce back Mads can. But what a rubbish start to the season 😭

think about it, there is a timeline where lefevere buys out van aert from crelan (like he originally planned) and agrees to adrie basically giving mathieu to start at quickstep for free on top of remco getting signed for QST in 2019 van aert, mathieu and remco. one team

Add to the 'good news' list.

Call me maybe? 📞 Inspired by the original, Ella Wyllie has put together this throwback masterpiece! Sit back and enjoy the Liv AlUla Jayco squad pay homage to the GreenEDGE OG! 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAK2...

French bike racing on the TV, Winter Olympics starts on Friday, and my VO2 Max is back up to 'superior' apparently. Reasons to be cheerful, when the SAD is biting. When will the rain ever stop? 😭🌧️

Getting QRT'ed (or whatever it's called on here) for having the audacity to enjoy sport when bad things are happening in the world. Why do people not get that enjoying things in the face of everything that's going on is the point?

French cycling is back today 🤩

📊 At an age of 36 years & 213 days Lucinda Brand is the oldest cyclocross world champion ever 🌈 in women's elite category. 👉 Previous record holder: Marianne Vos (34 years + 262 days old)

YES LUCINDA BRAND!!! So so pleased for her. Hugely well deserved after an incredibly consistent season, and indeed career 🌈🙌

Wow Riberolle shoved Zemanova after that crash, that was uncalled for 😬

A few nasty crashes dictating the way this race is unfolding, dearly want to see Lucinda Brand take it home but after that crash I don't know 😭

The strength of that Red Bull TTT line-up is RIDICULOUS 🤯

Possibly the best title for a blogpost I've ever seen. From Wheelysports on Substack.

Unibet Rose Rockets in the hotseat, EVERYBODY LIKED THAT 😍🙌

It's been raining for days, the lack of light is miserable, I've just done my tax return and had a generally shitty week, but that finish at the Alula Tour has somewhat improved my mood. Time for a TTT 🤩

Just as in every other area of life don't be a dick to people while they're trying to do their job. It's real life not Zwift. Glad Jonas is OK 🙏

After reading about Vingegaard crashing on training yesterday and the total amount of random riders jumping onto pro’s wheels. I have a question. How would you feel about a random person breathing down your neck at work? Without asking if you are fine with it…

Ditto 🤯 Cycling, eh.

I wrote a piece for @cyclist.co.uk about the shift in mentality in the men's peloton since 2020, and the swathe of retirements changing the shape of the bunch. It features fascinating insights from former pro turned agent Jacopo Guarnieri. Hope you enjoy it ⤵️ www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/pro...

Had a big chat with Sam Bennett after what was undoubtedly a frightening time for him road.cc/content/news...