Part Five: The discourses surrounding banned performance-enhancing techniques perpetuate gendered and raced narratives of natural difference. Biological difference is predicated on a discursive “natural order” that is reified by the rigid definitions of natural and artificial permitted by the very existence of banned performance enhancing techniques.
Author: Harold Dalton
Harold Dalton
Cycling industry professional with two decades of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.
There was a time when I could attend races in Yorkshire. I spectated at races. I worked on races. I marshaled races. I covered races as a journalist. Hell, I even drank a ton of wine and made this terrible video at the 2008 East Yorkshire Classic just because I had nothing better to do that weekend:
Part Four: “Natural” is Discourse. What is coded as a “natural” body is not a natural inevitability at all, but discursively constructed as a gendered and raced object laced with intricate layers of meaning.
Dark Cycle Clothing have released their Halloween collection. We love their gear, and this latest collection is great for Halloween parties, day-to-day goth wear, or just scaring the shit out of your newborn baby. Here are our favorites from the collection, organized from least to most spoopy.
Form takes precedence over functionality in this beautiful basic cycling computer, but it executes its limited feature set well and is a stylish entry-level option.
The 2010s are over – the Vuelta was the final Grand Tour that will ever start with a 201x. User ser-seaworth on r/peloton put together this vomit-colored and slightly illegible infographic that wraps up the decade nicely.
Mark Cavendish remains one of the greatest sprinters ever to grace the sport. But he’s equally famous for his temperament, with a remarkable predilection toward kicking off in interviews because he refuses to suffer fools gladly. I’ve always admired that aspect of his personality. Here’s the time I fell foul of it:
Part Three: Case Study. The body, with all its gendered and racialized associations, became the concept through which cycling as a sport and France as a state realigned their notions of the natural, the medical, and the illicit.