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Lockdown Losers and Stay Home Heroes

Aug 15, 2020

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The effect of lockdown on our lives appears, at least in part, to have messed with the natural order of things; and for the professional peloton, it has been no different. For every rider who’s been able to discover some sort of inner calm, focus and method, moulding and remoulding their physiologies and pyschologies with distant and unknowable targets in mind, there’ve been another ten who appear to have frittered the time away on watching the box set of Ozark in their pants. Continue reading

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To Fabio Jakobsen- Ned Boulting

Aug 05, 2020

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I write this as I sit and wait for a pizza to be brought to my table. I am in a suburb of Turin, where I have just finished commentating on a rare edition of Milano Torino that ended in a bunch sprint. It was the usual stuff, full of heart-in-mouth drama, tactical plays, backfiring moves and a worthy winner in Arnaud Démare. There was even a crash, which resulted from what looked like an innocuous but high-speed touch of the wheels when Peter Sagan seemed to ride into Daniel Oss. Continue reading

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Burnt Siena - Strade Bianche 2020

Jul 31, 2020

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After four long months in which, like so many of us, I have scarcely left the house, or at least the streets immediately surrounding it, I have just flown back to where it all began. Continue reading

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The Not So Dark Arts Of Commentary - Ned Boulting

Jul 21, 2020

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The Not So Dark Arts Of Commentary - Ned Boulting

I’m occasionally puzzled by the amount of interest expressed in the mechanics of TV commentary on road racing. To me, it’s just my day job; one that I have been sorely missing for the last four months. Continue reading

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Hello, world- Ned Boulting

Apr 20, 2020

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Four weeks ago, on the morning of the lockdown, I decided to step away from Twitter. No one likes a flounce, and I hope that’s not how it was interpreted. I like to think it was more like slipping unobserved out of a party close to midnight, when you think you won’t be missed. A ghost exit. Continue reading

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2020 Season Predictions - Ned Boulting

Jan 16, 2020

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No one I know likes to be asked to make predictions. You can either say the thing that will happen but does not sound exciting or interesting, nor reveal hidden depths of expertise and hipster knowledge. Or you can say something profoundly unusual and unexpected, which hints at vast reserves of understanding, inaccessible to the masses. The problem with this option is they won’t happen. The obvious, boring ones will happen. Everyone knows that. Continue reading