Taco van der Hoorn is the first rider named after a fast-food ingredient to win a Giro stage since Iban Mayo won Stage 19 in 2007
Cillian Kelly
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Cillian Kelly
@irishpeloton
Professional Cycling Nerd
Cork, Ireland
Joined September 2009
- Very proud of my absolute hero of a wife whose waters broke, went into early labour, *then* voted to repeal the 8th before going to hospital to deliver a gorgeous baby girl 🙌🏼 #8thref #referendum2018
- Has the vaccine been available in Belgium since 2018?Greg Van Avermaet suspects Covid-19 vaccine could explain loss of form; “My body is fighting an unknown enemy and it could be the vaccine,” says former Olympic champion road.cc/286043 #cycling
- Paris-Nice approaching. Cause for dusting off this hall of fame TV caption
- Mark Cavendish normalised winning multiple stages of the Tour year after year for an entire generation of fans. It's not normal. It's truly exceptional. We have no right to expect a rider to be capable of doing what he did at the Tour. He is the greatest sprinter of all time.
- To celebrate Rui Oliveira winning an Olympic gold medal, here’s Sean Kelly saying his name
00:00 - I’m not exactly impartial, but GCN+ was the best thing to ever happen to cycling fans. What an incredible service It’s shite news for fans. I’m gutted to see it go, and I’m devastated for all of the people who worked on it If you have questions I’ll try my best to answer them
- For the past 6 years I have felt compelled to watch first the GCN+ and now the TNT coverage of the Tour. But the ITV (and previously Channel 4) highlight hour is a thing of absolute perfection. It instilled a love for the history and beauty of cycling and I will miss it terribly.
- Imagine being this eloquent and incisive in what must be his third language. No sport is better than this one.There isn't one quote we could pick out of this interview to do it justice. If there is one interview you watch today, make it this one with @matmohoric. On n'a pas su choisir une seule citation qui rendrait hommage à l'interview. Du coup si vous devez écoutez un seul interview
00:00 - My days at GCN are done. What a great adventure it has been - developing and launching GCN RacePass which then became GCN+, developing the GCN app and the community within, creating the GCN news website - but also all of the extracurricular, non-software nerd things I got up to
- On Pog cannibalising yesterday’s stage… Maybe, *maybe* if the rider up the road had been a lowly rider on a lowly team I’d have some sympathy. But the rider up the road was on the team that has systematically dismantled Pog winning the Tour twice before. And that rider was up
- When Pogacar wins his fifth Tour de France next year, he'll still be younger than Lance Armstrong was when he won his first in 1999
- That was even more impressive than any of the stages in 2021. That year was a weird one where for various reasons most of the best sprinters were missing. This year, this sprint, the 35th win - EVERY top sprinter was there. And he beat them. Again. It's unbelievable.
