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Daniel Friebe
@friebos
✍🏼 of Mountain High (& Higher), Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal & Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was (09/06/22). One bit of The Cycling Podcast & ITV cycling.
Berlin
Joined August 2010
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    Today marks 40 years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. April 28 is when the world found out & on May 6 the Peace Race began in Kiev. Part one of my deep dive into the catastrophe, the race & the aftermath of both will be released on Tues, before part two on May 6.
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    General classification since 2021 (83 stages): Pogačar: 327 hrs, 39 mins, 22 secs
Vingegaard: 327 hrs, 39 mins, 44 secs
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    Last 400m in Bilbao completely lined by pro-Palestine protesters, several deep, faced by armed police. Protestors in their hundreds, maybe thousands. Surreal scene.
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    Geraint Thomas on Visma isolating Pogačar: ‘You can isolate a Ferrari, but it still goes fast.’
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    De Bondt spends 50+km in break, 15 mins doing interviews, then finally heads off towards team bus…sees this group of kids, does U-turn & spends another several mins taking pics/signing autographs.
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    Question in press conf: ‘Tadej, are you afraid this Giro will cost you too much?’ ‘So far I haven’t spent any Euros. I’m on a paid holiday since six days.’
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    Peloton strung out already
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    Tour de France vintages, 2000-22: 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷2003, 2022 🍷🍷🍷🍷2006, 2008, 2011, 2019, 2020 🍷🍷🍷2001, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 🍷🍷2000, 2004, 2012, 2014 🍷2002, 2005
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    Available from June 9…
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    Soon the combined palmarès of half a dozen teenaged tenants of a Mancunian terraced house circa 2005, all of them mentored by Rod Ellingworth, will include: 1 Tour 1 🌈 road jersey 12 🌈 track jerseys 51 Grand Tour stages 1 Dauphiné 1 Paris-Nice 1 Sanremo 5 Olympic golds etc.
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    Roglič‘s last two results in Courchevel: 11th & 13th. Both in ski-jumping.
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    Marc Soler eating a Calippo two minutes before the stage start is the most Marc Soler thing you’ll see today.
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    Devastating. One of the brightest lights in the sport - a rider whose deep, considered, expressive voice grabbed your attention from the moment he opened his mouth. Always felt it was a matter of time before a much wider audience saw that light - because he was going to soar.