The Union Cycliste Internationale, our noble, benevolent rulers, have announced that French Decathlon-AG2R rider Franck Bonnamour has been provisionally suspended in accordance with the UCI Anti-Doping Rules. The UCI have shed very little light at this stage, but tell us the suspension is due to “unexplained abnormalities in his Biological Passport.” Unexplained abnormalities, huh. Sounds a bit Close Encounters to us. Biological passports do too, really, but we’re used to hearing that phrase. Still, if you’re a time-traveller, know that we don’t have aliens in 2024. Just much worse stuff. Expect to not hear much more. The UCI have told…
Author: Harold Dalton
Harold Dalton
Cycling industry professional with over 14 years of experience in professional journalism, television, and industry writing.
Sir Dave Brailsford, the architect behind Team Sky’s and Ineos Grenadiers’ unparalleled success, has decided to step back from his role as the team principal. This news comes amidst a significant restructuring of Ineos Grenadiers, marking a new chapter for the team. At 59, Brailsford remains an influential figure, transitioning into the position of Ineos’ director of sport. Which is a role that encompasses more than cycling. While he will still wield influence over the cycling team, he has relinquished the title of team principal. Brailsford’s legacy at Team Sky, later Ineos Grenadiers, is illustrious. Since the squad’s inception in…
We don’t talk ebikes too much on Cyclry. There has been the odd snide remark, obviously, but if the odd snide remark counts as actual coverage, then we cover almost everything in the world. In fact, the number of offers we’ve had to receive free ebikes massively outnumbers the number of actual ebike articles we’ve written. Not sure what that’s about. It’s not the 2000s anymore, you can’t just send us thousands of pounds of free product for coverage… and if you’re seriously emailing us to send us a $3,850 ebike, you’re greatly overestimating our platform’s significance in the 2020s.…
A critical examination of the production of meaning in the contemporary English language cycling media Note: This is a recreation of the 2007-published Cycles of Representation, based on unfinished files on floppy disks (remember those?). It differs from the published version you may have read, and from the version available in archives. << Introduction CHAPTER ONE: POSTMODERN SHIFTS AND THE PRODUCTION OF CYCLING MEDIA TEXTS Cycling’s unique relationship with the production of its media texts, and the mediation that occurs as a result of this, is an important and particularly well documented aspect of the sport’s history (a useful example…
DerailedUK Archives:1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27a | 27b | 28 | 29 Ride the time machine back to the 2008 Tour de France. We’d taken an all expenses paid trip to Paris courtesy of… a friend of Derailed who was riding London-Paris. Much appreciated, even if it was a different source from…
A litre of beer in his hands, a riveting 1-1 draw with Dortmund in front of him. Observe how happy he is. What time off the bike does to an mf (improves your life).
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For the third Istria300 edition on October 7th, 2.800 participants from 40 countries came to Croatia to start their ride in colourful Istria when the sun rose. The last finisher crossed the finish line when the sun went down. All participants started from the Poreč, where they also finished the ride. Under the event slogan, Ride your limits! participants could, as every year, choose a route length of 300, 242 or 168 kilometres during the ride, which makes Istria300 a unique project. The fact that there are about 1,000 applicants on the waiting list speaks about the success of this…