Alex Kellum

@ktarheel @lucasaganronald Tiz Cycling machine go brrr

@lucasaganronald Don’t even think we can watch this race in the States

Important info for tomorrow’s Omloop.

@vismaleaseabike @WoutvanAert My 🤴, so sad. I’m sure he’ll only come back stronger and more motivated for more important objectives later. Wishing a fast recovery

Sadly, Wout van Aert will not be able to start in Omloop het Nieuwsblad on Saturday, as he has fallen ill. The winner of the 2022 edition of the race, will take his time to recover. Wout van Aert: “Obviously it’s a big blow for me to miss out on my first race, having prepared for the classics season the whole winter. We had a good training camp at Sierra Nevada and I was feeling really strong. But unfortunately, it’s also that time of the year where it’s easy to fall ill. I remain positive about the feeling I had on training and am confident that I will be able to return to racing soon. Just not this Saturday.” Wout will be replaced by Pietro Mattio.

@BenjiNaesen I think more open this year than most years. If Paul Magnier is going he might be favorite. Wouldn’t count out Laporte-Wout combo either

Thoughts on Omloop?

@lucasaganronald I don’t see it as so black and white. He obviously wants Pidcock’s draft so he moves left into it. Anyone would have done the same. There seems to be contact with Van Gils but I think it’s pretty subtle and likely unintentional but bad awareness

Is there more hated cyclist in the world than Jan Christen? I can see even suspension for him for this not only DSQ. #ClasicaJaen

@lucasaganronald NSN rider had no business pulling off then trying to play interference in the middle of the sprint. Would be happy with yellow card for him and Lotto (De Lie?) for the over aggressive shoulder budge

That was close 😳🫣

@lucasaganronald Also relevant to add Bernal and Froome to examples where a bad accident derailed their career

@lucasaganronald I agree 💯 here. There’s a world where Tadej/Jonas and MVDP/Wout swap luck with injuries and their palmares look totally different. No discredit to them and their successes

People don’t realize one fact, how the injuries, mainly the serious ones stop your development of reaching your max potential. Vingegaard had an upward trajectory, but then the Basque Country crash put him two years behind again. Van Aert same with Dwars Door Vlaanderen crash and Vuelta crash, plus illnesses. Evenepoel was going up, Lombardia crash put him back, then finally went up slowly, that Postal van put him back again two years and now he is going upwards again. And THANKFULLY neither Pogačar nor Van der Poel experienced that. So they were able to be year by year, one good preparation after another. And this is one of the reasons why they are so ahead of the rest.

@wildtiktokss That’s not a doctor it’s a chatbot. They make money off your data and offer the same information a 2 minute google search would

Lotus literally just put a free doctor in every Americans pocket… absolutely wild.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

@SenateGOP The bill must be titled "Working Families Tax Cut" because that's whose paying for it Boomers being the wealthiest generation ever to exist and giving themselves more tax cuts at the expense of the actual working class is sickening

America’s seniors will see a new $6,000 bonus exemption as a part of the Working Families Tax Cut. That’s $93 billion in tax cuts for seniors all over the country.

@lucasaganronald I hate this stuff so much. If riders have ANY credible evidence people are doping they should name riders, teams, coaches, etc. @UCI_cycling and WADA should be following up with every single one of these statements. Otherwise these people are doing damage to the sport for no good

WHAT IS SUDDENLY GOING ON?

@MichaelDell @jpmorgan Holy hellscape

Congratulations @jpmorgan on the opening of your new headquarters! 🎉🇺🇸🙏

@lucasaganronald Why is Healy on this list at all two stage wins all year? Jonas Abrahamsen has more wins including TdF. I think Milan has had a more impressive year. Even Wout winning in multiple grand tours is more impressive

Velo d’Or nominees are out and we all know Pogačar will win it again… but how would you rank the whole TOP10? Here is my opinion: Pogačar Vingegaard Van der Poel Evenepoel Del Toro Almeida Pedersen Yates Healy Merlier What do you think?

@Domestique___ How are Tadej and Del Torro not nominated?

The next round of the #DomestiqueAwards 🏆 🚴‍♂️ "Most Entertaining Rider - Men" The nominees by Tim Bonville-Ginn 👇

@RyanDuff99 No one hates the French like the French. These two teams are big rivals. They would almost (and today, indeed) rather lose the race themselves then see the other team win. When one of them stopped working together b/c he thought the other a better sprinter, it was over for them

Can someone explain to me like I'm 5 why they waited for a group of better sprinters to catch them?

@lucasaganronald This race was lost as much as it was won. But I love to see it.

What a finish at Paris Tours… Matteo Trentin big win, but beautiful news is that Laporte is back and will be back. And 19 years old Albert Withen Philipsen just shows again with the 3rd place how strong he is. #𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑇𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠

@Roadman_Podcast Whole lot of words. Rapha is owned by private equity who want to make it profitable. It’s just that simple. EF have already moved onto Assos who make far superior kit anyhow

The partnership that redefined pro cycling just died. Not from failure. From exhaustion. Rapha and EF Education are splitting after seven years. One of the most recognisable, innovative partnerships in modern cycling - over. The duck helmet. The Palace collaboration. The pink jersey everyone could spot from space. Gone. Rapha's CEO said the relationship "had gotten tired." Not unsuccessful. Not unprofitable. Tired. That line stuck with me because it's brutally honest about something every brand partnership faces but nobody admits. They didn't fail. They just stopped caring. When Rapha joined EF in 2019, they weren't just supplying kit. They were building culture. The alternative calendar sent pro riders to Unbound Gravel and Leadville. Lachlan Morton's solo Alt Tour captured millions of views. The Gone Racing documentary series brought fans inside the sport. They gave cycling personalities again. The partnership won stages at all three Grand Tours. Victories at Flanders and Paris-Roubaix Femmes. World championship gold this year. By every metric, it worked. But Rapha reported losses for seven straight years. And somewhere along the way, the magic became maintenance. The innovation became obligation. The disruption became routine. That's how partnerships die in 2025. Not with a bang. With a memo about "broadening horizons." Meanwhile, Ineos Grenadiers - once cycling's dominant super team - can't find a bike sponsor for 2026. They're hiring agencies. Talking to "hundreds of brands." Offering unprecedented opportunities. But nobody's signing. Because the model is broken. Brands enter cycling to build community, create culture, tell stories. Then they realise that costs money and doesn't show immediate ROI. So they optimise. Cut the storytelling budget. Focus on logo placement and activation metrics. The partnership becomes transactional. The magic disappears. The "relationship gets tired." Then they leave. And everyone acts surprised. Rapha and EF proved something valuable: partnerships that build culture create value beyond spreadsheets. But building culture is expensive. It's long-term. It's hard to measure. So brands choose transactions over transformation. Then wonder why nothing sticks. The real tragedy isn't that Rapha left. It's what they're leaving behind. EF now has to find a partner willing to fill boots that might be "too big to fill" according to brands who considered it. Because Rapha wasn't just a kit supplier. They were culture architects. And in cycling's current sponsor market, nobody wants to pay for architects. They want vendors. Seven years of losses finally made Rapha ask: is this worth it? Their answer was no. And honestly, looking at the economics, I can't blame them. But that's the problem. When the economics say no to building culture, everyone loses.

@unclecycling The connection was ADAMS the antidoping thing that Jonas skipped—brought up by you. And the (baseless) mention of CO2 rebreathing machines that Gee might have used because the owner of IPT was rich—also, brought up by you. I didn’t change the subject, I called you out on your bs

@alexkellum Hahahaha now are you talking about “you don’t believe in anyone” when my tweet was “if this guy wasn’t canadian he won’t have an access to a WT team like basques in Euskaltel or french/italian dudes in french/italian teams” Disgusting tweets mate

If This guy wasn’t canadian, nobody would’ve sign him in the WT. Please, if politics sent you to Top 10 in TdF, now don’t use politics to get a contract.

@unclecycling Sylvain Adams, obviously. But nice baseless accusation without any evidence. Why follow cycling if your assumption is it’s all a rigged game of cheaters?

@alexkellum Which Adams are you talking about? ADAMS the antidoping thing that Jonas skipped or Adams Sylvan? NOBODY knew who was that guy at Giro 2022 IPT had access at CO2 devices because of the MONEY of that multimillonaire Please

@unclecycling Bro look at his results. He CLEARLY had the goods. Without Adams he would have just bounced through Rally or somewhere else first. IPT isn’t exactly a VLAB/UAE type team who can develop riders and turn them into something great

@alexkellum If Adams were deutsch instead of canadian this dude won’t be at WT