Wednesday, March 25

Browsing: Essays

A sport resistant to media coverage

April 1, 20206 Mins Read

Cahiers du Cyclisme, January 2011 edition Cycling is unique as a mediasport not in that it’s a sport entirely devised by the media,…

Sex and Drug Testing

March 13, 20203 Mins Read

This essay is Part Three of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below…

Sex differences and sex segregation

February 9, 20203 Mins Read

This essay is Part Two of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below…

Sports, socialization and the construction of gender

January 15, 20203 Mins Read

This essay is Part One of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (6/6)

November 8, 20196 Mins Read

Part 6: Conclusion (& Bibliography). The case study of erythropoietin in the Tour de France is intriguing precisely because it…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (5/6)

October 20, 201914 Mins Read

Part Five: The discourses surrounding banned performance-enhancing techniques perpetuate gendered and raced narratives of natural difference. Biological difference is predicated…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (4/6)

October 4, 201915 Mins Read

Part Four: “Natural” is Discourse. What is coded as a “natural” body is not a natural inevitability at all, but discursively…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (3/6)

September 7, 201914 Mins Read

Part Three: Case Study. The body, with all its gendered and racialized associations, became the concept through which cycling as…

2026 Milan-San Remo | Highlights

March 21, 20264 Mins Read

Tadej Pogačar defied the laws of physiology to finally win Milan-San Remo. Despite a massive crash just before the Cipressa, the World Champion chased back on, attacked anyway, dropped an injured Mathieu van der Poel on the Poggio, and out-sprinted Tom Pidcock on the Via Roma to claim his fourth career Monument.