Feargal McKay

Mrs Frog @musettedutour.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:24 UTC

Stage 2 Cesenatico to Bologna - Arkea get their first Tour win. Meanwhile, Pog is trying to catch up to his white count #letourdepoupees #couchpeloton #letourdefrance #sbscycling #TDF2024

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:08 UTC

Well I won't sleep easy tonight knowing she thinks my opinion is wrong. 😉

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 11:36 UTC

I would read it as protest, not just giving up. The sprinters' teams put the barrage up, Astana team radio was broadcast saying only two or three riders would be allowed out.

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 11:22 UTC

With Arkea + DSM celebrating successful Tours, Uno-X will have plenty of opportunities in the breaks to come. Too many, even, until some 'GC' (in their dreams) teams switch to Plan B. And I'm only slightly tongue-in-cheek saying that. To me, it's a gd protest, better than just surrendering meekly.

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 10:41 UTC

The sprinters' teams appear to have decided only a two or three man break would be allowed. Why waste the energy today, there's a lot more to come for Uno-X, especially with DSM + Arkea's Tour goals achieved. Also, just stopping like that, it really is cool, an FU to the sprinters.

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 10:24 UTC

Now that's class!

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 22:19 UTC

Yes and no. Substantively, yes. But. That ends up incentivizing silence. It ends up putting image ahead of substance. Maybe we shouldn't have stopped talking about truth and reconciliation, I don't know. We need to live with the past, without allowing it to repeat itself.

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:23 UTC

Does Vaughters deserve to be allowed away with lines like riders today "are good kids who for the most part are racing clean and the sadness of this case is that it's going to reignite the doubt, the suspicion, the cynicism"? This case has not reignited doubt. That fire's been burning for years now.

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:21 UTC

But does Vaughters deserve to get a hall pass when he says "riders of today don't deserve the burden of" the past? That's the burden of men like Vaughters who lied and lied and lied about doping. Men like Millar, like Hamilton, like Landis. They are the people who burdened the riders of today.

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 21:17 UTC

Piccolo's case is complicated. Vaughters deserves applause for ratting him out to the UCI/ITA when it was just sleeping pills (though we should also ask why he ratted him out when it was 'just' sleeping pills). But...

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:54 UTC

David Walsh used to be seen as the big bad Irish wolfhound bravely speaking out against doping. Now, what is he? A poodle for the likes of Froome and Vaughters, speaking out against allegations of doping.

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 20:37 UTC

You don't see as many priests and nuns at the roadside any more. I love the priests and the nuns at the roadside in Malle's Tour.

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Feargal McKay @fmk.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 13:30 UTC

I'm thinking I should add the names of the stage winners. I may have all the required tiles.

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