Katy Madgwick
@writebikerepeat
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Freelance cycling writer, editor, broadcaster. Love words, bikes, France, and positivity. https://t.co/bXGUdXdlvj
Newcastle upon Tyne
Joined November 2020
NEW POST: In today's post I consider the riders who were missing for all or part of 2024 due to setbacks, and who we can hope to see return to their best in 2025. Featuring some obvious ones, some less so, and comically excessive use of the word 'back' ⤵️.
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Sorry if these have already been shared but the words of Romain Bardet on Instagram have really moved me ❤️ Such eloquence to out into words something so painful 🙏
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A Slovenian cycling legend, and her boyfriend 😜 (I know it's old but I couldn't resist) #TDF2024
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Love this post from Tom Pidcock's instagram 🤩. Caption: 'when you meet your idol' 🥰
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The anger towards cyclists is breaking me. At what point do you go from cheering as your kid learns to ride a bike, to wishing an entire sub-group of people dead because of the way they choose to get around? I hate it here.
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Matteo to Jonas: 'you gave everything, that's all that matters' 😭😭😭. Totally choked for them both #TDF2024
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I told my 8yo daughter about the greatest cyclist of all time at the weekend. Told her about all the achievements, across disciplines, over so many years. After I told her she asked ‘what’s his name?’. I said ‘Marianne.’. I’ll never forget the look on her face #WomeninCycling.
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Wout interrupts Jonas' winners interview. Wout: 'I'm proud of you.'.Jonas: 'F&*cking hell!'. OK I'm done 😭❤️ #TDF2022
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Absolutely love this image, MVDP superimposed next to Poulidor, the only Monument his grandfather won 🥺 #Milansanremo. 📸 @sprintcycling c/o @mathieuvdpoel instagram
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Sepp Kuss' wife Noemi: 'you gonna do this again now, huh?' . Sepp's response: 'never again!'. 😅. #LaVuelta23.
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Pogi waiting on the side of the road as swanny for Urska is about the cutest thing ever tbh 😍🥺. #GlasgowScotland2023
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Sepp Kuss: Special delivery! Mr Van Aert, I believe you ordered one small Danish cyclist wearing yellow? #TDF2022
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Public service announcement: it's 18 days until the Giro d'Italia everyone. I repeat, 18 days to the Giro d'Italia 😍🇮🇹🤌.
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Cycling is the most beautiful sport in the world. #LaVuelta23 . 📷 Pure art once again from Pauline Ballet (Instagram)
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OMG!! Baby news from Sepp Kuss and Noemi Ferré 🥺❤️. Welcome baby Martina 🫶. From instagram
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Two total French queens 🤩👑🇫🇷. From Marion Rousse's instagram 📷
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Mohorič's interview is the most wonderful thing I've heard this Tour. So humble and eloquent, spoke highly of the staff and mechanics, and of Asgreen, saying he feels he doesn't belong. 'I don’t want to have many regrets when I come to the team bus.' Truly lovely 🫶#TDF2023.
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The final shot of Thibaut Pinot raising his arms at the Tour de France. So glad to see him going out with a smile on his face and a prize in his hand - combativity award so well earned not just for yesterday but as a symbol of his whole career 🥹💛. #TDF2023. 📷Pauline Ballet
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I can't think of anything clever to say about this image that hasn't already been said. I just want it on my timeline 🤩 #Milansanremo
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Loved this moment - Ciccone's Danish security detail Pedersen and Skjelmose lead him out for the final KOM point - loved how they attacked this, classy 😍🔥 #TDF2023
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The most wonderful, fantastic news ❤️ Nathan van Hooydonck and his wife welcome a baby boy into the world 🥺
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Visma-LAB's provisional line-up for the Tour de France 🤯
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Emotional this morning seeing this lovely photo from Jumbo Visma's end of season celebration. Nathan van Hooydonck and Wout 🥺❤️. 📷 Jumbo Visma instagram
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And I STILL have to ride La Vuelta?! 🥺. (He is literally a legend and I won't hear a word to the contrary). Heal fast Seppie 💛🙏.
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Cavendish: 'Imagine getting the 35th Tour de France stage in the British champs jersey, it would be pretty beautiful, it would always be there in the photos forever.'.
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Soler was a rock for Pogi today. And Harper for Yates; O'Connor for Gall; Haig for Bilbao. Many more examples too. This sport has such highs and such lows but the teamwork is out of this world. It means everything. #TDF2023.
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Cyclists really are just the best. Pogi's Instagram post is so heartfelt 🥺 But Rui Oliveira's response cracked me up 🤣 #TDF2023
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Ashley Gruber once again finding the moments that make your heart burst and capturing them for posterity 🥺 #TDF2023
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LOTTE KOPECKY!!! . The World Champion wins Paris-Roubaix Femmes 🤩🌈. Chills. #ParisRoubaixFemmes
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For the record, I am GUTTED for G. Don't think I've ever had a situation where I would have been so equally happy with two possible winners. Pure class, G 👏👏👏 #Giro
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According to this shot, not only does Mohoric have a killer bike throw, but he's also won by just having a bigger bike 😅 #TDF2023
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Even announcing a pregnancy Victor Campanaerts makes me laugh - this pic from instagram with the caption 'couple goals - same weight' 😂. Another bike baby on the way, congrats to Victor and Nel 😍
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HOW did he hold onto this?!! Absolute SKILLS from Pidcock, and on a TT bike?! 😮🤯 #VAlgarve2023 #VAlgarve23
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Lots of love and respect between the families of the top guys at Jumbo. Lora congratulates Sepp, lots of hugs, Sepp's Mum thanking Jonas. Good to see #LaVuelta23
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The moment Lenny realises he's in red. he becomes the youngest ever to wear the leader's jersey in Vuelta history. FRAME IT 🤩 #LaVuelta23 . 📷Groupama-FDJ Insta
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Who is the most eloquent man in the pro peloton and why is it Romain Bardet #LaVuelta23 . 📷✍️ @romainbardet instagram
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Question: What's your biggest goal this year, winning the Giro for the first time, or winning the Tour for the third time?. Tadej: Worlds 😂
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That interview from Victor is one of the highlights of the Tour so far. 'The support I have from my girlfriend is incredible. She gave birth to our son at the bottom of the climb in Granada, she is the hero in this story. 'I will be leaving the team, but I'm so happy that we.
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My 9yo was selected to run in schools cross country meet yesterday despite never having raced competitively before. Explaining how it went after she told me: 'well, I started out in the peloton. '. Ladies and gentlemen, my work here is done 🎤 😎. (She came 13th out of 42) 👍.
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OMG ALISON JACKSON WINS PARIS-ROUBAIX FEMMES!! What an unbelievable finish I'm in utter shock, actual tears, what a race from the break! 😍😭#ParisRoubaixFemmes
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I'm so sorry but I can't stop laughing. They are human after all and I love them for it 🤣🥰 #CXWorldCup.
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'Hey man, did you at least manage to do it properly this time, or do we need to go to another review?' 😅.#TDF2023
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ogm;igdnadk;fafk;ufbvfaklvbk. omg I'm shaking he's DONE IT CAVENDISH HAS DONE IT!!! NUMBER 35!!!. #TDF2024.
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How can anyone ride this fast over cobbles? Absolutely mind-blowing. Game over 🙌. #ParisRoubaix.
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WOUT AND MATHIEU CONTENT!!. Having a catch-up / planning which day to go on a joint breakaway 🥰 #TDF2024
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New national men's road race champion, Mark Cavendish (smiling for the first time today!) 🤩🇬🇧
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Excuse me but can cyclists just stick to one thing please and stop absolutely annihilating half marathons like it ain't no thing because it makes us mere mortals feel bad 🤨. 📷Jasper Philipsen Strava
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Oh wow, Roglič dislocated his shoulder and popped it back in himself again today. Again 😳😰 #TDF2022.
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It was great to hear Kasper thanking his breakaway teammates in his interview, here is Victor doing the same, despite the fact that neither he nor Eenkhoorn took the win. Classy. Love this sport 🥰 #TDF2023
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I've been thinking about this post all day. The image is incredible but the words are just. that quote is going to stay with me for a long time. And the sheer amount of interaction just shows the impact Biniam is having. Pretty incredible #TDF2024.
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Cycling is not a serious sport, part 394. The crowd pointing the way 🙃🙈 #Dauphiné @OutOfCycling
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No, not Wout and Mathieu both posting this pic on their Insta stories. How to say 'I've missed my partner in crime without saying it. 😍 #MilanSanRemo
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Van der Poel walking back through the field congratulating all the other riders = KING SHIT 👑 #Milanosanremo
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I can't help it I have to share the photos that have made me gasp from this Tour. Ashley and Jered Gruber, and Pauline Ballet, on Instagram have been producing pure art every day. Hang them. well, next door 😅. This one literally took my breath away 🤯 #TDF2023. 📷Jered Gruber
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Ben O'Connor was an unbelievable teammate today. To go from being the team's GC leader to pouring himself out for Felix to achieve this incredible win, I'm totally emotional over this 😭 #TDF2023.
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Turn on GCN, Egan's driving the peloton, how bloody amazing is that? What a sight for sore eyes 🤩 #PNDKR22
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AG2R-Citroën to debut a 'demin' bibshort at Strade Bianche on Saturday. OK we need to discuss this immediately #StradeBianche. 📷 Pauline Ballet
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No words for how rubbish this news is, and how negatively this will affect the enjoyment of so many cycling fans around the world. Most of all just gutted for you and the whole team @daniellloyd1. GCN has been a constant companion for the past couple of years.
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KRISTEN FAULKNER!!! 🤩🤩🤩 . She powers over the line and doesn't even celebrate, maybe doesn't realise she's won. What a ride from her 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. #Paris2024 #CyclingRoad
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Sincerely hope you've all had better days than me, but if yours has been crap too, may I present the small ray of hope that is Thibaut Pinot with a donkey? 🥺. 📷 Thibaut Pinot instagram
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Hey France. I know what I said about Italy. But can I just say. How YOU doin'?😍 . #Dauphiné
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THIS is how you commit to a unified men's and women's team - same kit, joint team presentation - following the Lidl-Trek model, absolutely love it 👏💜. 📷 Jayco instagram
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Tom Pidcock: I knew something was going to happen today. Two black cats crossed my path in the last week. Laura Kenny: at what point did you know you had the legs?.Tom Pidcock: on Tuesday. Gotta love the guy, pure class 🤣 #StradeBianche.
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So the UCI can ban drone footage of races within hours, but it takes 3 years to introduce an U23 women's World Championship race?
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Tom Pidcock on Wout van Aert: 'He's playing with our balls isn't he. he's taking the piss, isn't he?' 😳😅 #TDF2022.
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From the moment Nico Denz's face pops up behind Jens to the end of this conversation, this is just pure joy. New petition: daily Jensi & Denzi segment! 😍 #Giro. SOUND ON!
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