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We’re trucking through the Vuelta a España, watching things build slowly, day by day. David Gaudu and Torstein Træen’s red jerseys were feel-good moments, as was Ben Turner’s stage win, and now we’ll have to pray and see if anyone can match up to Jonas Vingegaard.
Juan Ayuso may have declared himself out of the running for the red jersey (shame) but he is definitely our classification leader for possibly cantankerous social media bios.
Oh, and British Cycling have popped up with some nonsense at the Junior Race of South Wales. Of course.
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Now, while the ASO does a good job of removing … certain drawings from the roads of the Tour de France every July, it turns out British Cycling has its own Dong Patrol.
Stages one and two of the Junior Race of South Wales passed through the Powys village of Three Cocks, a name deemed so rude British Cycling replaced it in the race’s road book with Three *****. Not only does this defeat the intended purpose of obtaining information from a road book, but there are a multitude of polite meanings of the word.
Things could always be worse on Rainy Island, people could be out painting English flags on roundabouts, which certainly wouldn’t go down at all well in Wales. Oh …
Juan more piece of the puzzle 🧩
Ready for the latest storm in a teacup regarding Juan Ayuso and the speculation over his future with UAE Team Emirates? Of course you are!
As spotted by Lucas Ronald on X, Juan Ayuso’s Instagram bio doesn’t have any mention of his employer, while his profile photo is of him at the Paris Olympics in his Spanish national kit.
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