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Welcome back to Spin Cycle,
Anyone still there? A couple of you? Ah, good.
I’m back in the seat straight off the red-eye, sleepily trying to parse between who’s been drinking which podium beers and how that informed the outcome of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, while tracing the various other cycling nonsense and intrigue of all different shapes and sizes over the past two weeks.
Thanks for your patience while we enjoyed some of our statutory time off, here's a combination of some piping hot news from the past week in cycling as well as some highlights that were left on our desk that we feel the need to have a say on. Let’s get on with it.
Get lower, Chef Ramsay 👨🍳
Gordon Ramsay is one of the UK's greatest exports. We shipped him over to America to shout out underwhelming restaurateurs and whip them into shape and as punishment for that generous gift we also lent you in James Corden.
But now, having taken up cycling and more specifically being into competing in Ironmans (because, of course he is) videos are emerging of Ramsay having a bike fit.
Bike fit/TT position videos are to the online cycling community what an underperforming gumbo restaurant in Baton Rouge is to Ramsay: absolutely ripe for criticism.
Is this Ramsay's way of giving back to the universe everything that he previously took? Restoring balance to the idiot sandwich ecosystem?
Regardless, we'll take Gordon Ramsay being into bikes any day.
Who'd be a Belgian superstar anyway? 😪
While the unquenchable Tadej Pogačar dominated the Ardennes and Jonas Vingegaard quietly readies himself for the Tour de France alone, like Luke Skywalker seeking out Master Yoda on the planet Dagobah, the third podium place of last year's Tour Remco Evenepoel has had a rather interesting time of it the past couple of weeks.
Evenepoel revealed he has recently drawn strength from the faith and prayer of Islam, introduced to him by his wife Oumi. This was of course discussed on a TV chat show called De Afspraak, with journalist Ruben Van Gucht bringing up a rumour he heard that Evenepoel takes care, financially speaking, of Oumi's family.
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