{"id":174767,"date":"2025-10-02T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174767\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:45:09","slug":"the-secret-pro-chaos-kigali-and-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174767\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Pro: Chaos, Kigali, and contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tsprwanda.jpg\" alt=\"The Secret Pro: Chaos, Kigali, and contracts\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">The Secret Pro checks in after a season defined by chaos, peaking at the brutal Road World Championships in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Secret Pro\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TSPavatar-1.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sime Moody<\/p>\n<p>The Vuelta was chaos, the transfer market is chaos, and then Worlds in Rwanda \u2026 also chaos. That\u2019s been the theme of 2025. Chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is the one everyone\u2019s buzzing about this week. If you watched on telly, you saw the climbs around Kigali, the heat, the altitude, and the crowds packed in everywhere. What you didn\u2019t see was how cooked a lot of riders were just getting there. The travel was brutal. Long flights, hardly any recovery after the Vuelta or Montreal. Add the altitude on top of legs already emptied out by the season, plus some nasty gut stuff going around, and the attrition rate was high before the racing even started. What was it, 30 guys that finished? I\u2019m surprised it was even that many to be honest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And yet the Worlds themselves? They delivered. The fans were unreal, probably some of the most passionate I\u2019ve ever seen. Kids running alongside the team buses, whole neighbourhoods packed onto the roadside, music and noise from start to finish. It made all the suffering feel like it meant something.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I know there was chatter about the government (pros can read, you know) but for us, on the ground, that stuff feels pretty far away. I sometimes struggle with this, personally. Matej [Mohori\u010d] <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/spin-cycle-remco-to-the-rescue\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said it really well<\/a> I thought. A lot of us wish we were more up to speed, but we just aren\u2019t. Plus, the list of things we have to pay attention to, according to some fans, just keeps growing. I didn\u2019t even know Charlie Kirk was a person until this week, when Chloe Dygert put a sticker about him on her fork, and now I\u2019m supposed to have an opinion on him? I don\u2019t know Chloe, let alone Charlie. Though even the briefest of Googles suggests that the sticker probably wasn\u2019t the best call on her part. Bet Canyon is raging.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"68dc4e06322798ede0b3e14b\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/secret-pro\/\" title=\"Secret Pro\" class=\"tag tag-6865d9466afbda2f28b9016b secret-pro\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Pro<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing The Secret Pro checks in after a season defined by chaos, peaking at the brutal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-174767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}