{"id":287056,"date":"2026-02-08T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287056\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:28:09","slug":"paul-kimmage-its-the-small-pictures-that-really-make-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287056\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kimmage: It\u2019s the small pictures that really make you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u2018The coldest day I\u2019ve ever known on a bike' - Paul Kimmage during the Etoile de Besseges race in 1986.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kimmage Feb 8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">\u2018The coldest day I\u2019ve ever known on a bike&#8217; &#8211; Paul Kimmage during the Etoile de Besseges race in 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In 2005, I gave an interview to The Sunday Times, in the UK, and was accurately described as having \u201csevered all ties\u201d with the sport. The reporter, Paul Kimmage, asked why I\u2019d chosen imposed exile, and I told him, \u201cFor the last five or six years, the most important thing in my life has been my family. It was nothing against tennis; tennis was my love and passion, but after 30-odd years of it, I needed a break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">That was all true, but not the whole truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The coldest day I\u2019ve ever known on a bike&#8217; &#8211; Paul Kimmage during the Etoile de Besseges race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,42965,112],"class_list":["post-287056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-paul-kimmage","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}