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The Backpedal

Cillian Kelly
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Articles on cycling facts, cycling stats and cycling history. All the best things. Do a bit of shouting at clouds too.

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The Shape of the Stat

And other things

I used to record episodes of They Think It’s All Over on video tape while I was asleep and then watch them in the morning. This was back when people knew how to set the timer to record on VHS recorders. I never did get int...

7 days ago
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The 2,000th Tour de France stage

A celebration of cycling

Some stats don’t interest me at all. The ones like it’s 1000 days since this rider’s last victory. I can’t get interested in that kind of arbitrariness and I never tend to submit this flavour of fact to the Eurospo...

12 days ago
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Footballers rolling around on the ground

Cyclists are superior

Hahahahahaha! OMG. Look at those stupid footballers. Those stupid, pathetic footballers rolling around on the ground whenever anybody brushes off their shoulder. Look at them! Their pain thresholds must be zero. Look...

15 days ago
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Preposterous Hollywood wank

Greg LeMond and the inherited victories

There were seven races live on TNT yesterday. Road races. That’s the kind of number that would usually get spelled out in brackets on the Soccer Saturday vidiprinter to let us all know that it’s not...

22 days ago
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5: Tadej Pogacar: Unstoppable by Andy McGrath

It’s that time again. Pog time. He is back on our screens and back in our brains. He has interrupted his life as a professional training camp rider in order to do a race. An increasingly rare event.

Andy McGrath has written a book about hi...

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