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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · 8d

Doesnt look too bad 😳

Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · 27d

Imagine closing a major route through the city and not telling anyone… nothing on social media no signs no nothing. horrendous comms from the council here. @roadcc.bsky.social

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Aug 18

Top work from Sion Morgan winning the English National Sheepdog Trial in Cumbria over the weekend. This means the English Team at the forthcoming International in Wales will be captained by a Welshman!

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is what reading Barthes does to you...

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Aug 9

Yes, but he has to defend next year which lemond never managed. Thought your point might be Evenepoel had to be the new Indurain 35 years later

Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Aug 9

Guessing this is about the last time a tour winner was also WC?

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Aug 1

well, just like the Gulf War, those tours didnt happen did they?!

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Aug 1

I see Henri Lefebvre has been used in Cycling Weekly. I await with interest anything inspired by Foucault, Bourdieu or Latour!

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Aug 1

other French philosophers are available 😉

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Jul 31

VIP entrance was at 1km to go - and access blocked off for others. Not sure if there were other ways onto the Champs?

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Jul 30

isnt access to the champs elysees now only ticket only/for VIPs?

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Jul 30

also a health and safety/security incident waiting to happen for spectators, given the overcrowding/lack of room on the climb. Police made this worse by telling spectators on the first two streets to move and go where it was already overcrowded. Wonder if they will charge to access in future?

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Jul 29

Whatever form, it needs the GC or, as in Sunday, it turns into a glorified club run. More radical solution: have the stage on 2nd Sunday in a North to South type tour

Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ha! Yes there’s no pavement: airport have done their best to make pedestrian access almost impossible. Free bus is fairly regular though.

Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Jul 17

Theres a 1hr free waiting zone by the silverzone car park - you then take the bus to the terminal.

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Jul 16

I presume its in an obscure edition, because its referenced as being in Mythologies in this paper www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Myth and the narrativization of cycle racing in popular literature

In his 1957 collection of essays Mythologies Roland Barthes famously discussed the world’s most prominent cycle race Le Tour De France. He critiqued its popular mythologization within media, which ...

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Jul 16

Most references to the essay say its in Mythologies, but its not included in the most widely available version of that book. Makes you wonder if those people referring to it really have read it.

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Jun 17

Somewhat ironic after years of searching NZ academic books on farming for anything about sheepdogs to finally come across this picture in Rollo Arnold's 'Farthest Promised Land', not least because its a picture an English sheepdog held by the @themerl.bsky.social

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · May 4

How to engage students: use a badger www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/04...

They see me rollin’, they learnin’ | News | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

The School of Psychology’s innovative mobile help desk, fondly known as the Badger Cart, is bringing support directly to students.

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Apr 24

Free on Caffè Nero WiFi if you don’t want to pay

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Apr 9

knowing how you're a stickler for the using the correct animal in the photo, thats a working dog, not a pet... 😉

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Apr 8

Championship - completed it 🤝
League 1 next…

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Apr 7

She’s too naughty

Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Apr 4

Lili Chin’s new book “Dogs of the World” has some great pictures of the best dogs

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Gareth Enticott 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @garethenticott.bsky.social · Mar 24

There are a number of systematic reviews that look at physical activity effects following mega-sporting events (eg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) Few of them find anything positive & argue that organisers should stop making these claims eg www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

Can international sports mega events be considered physical activity interventions? A systematic review and quality assessment of large-scale population studies

Amidst ongoing debate about the viability of physical activity (PA) legacies associated with hosting international sports mega events, this systematic review explores quantitative evidence from pop...

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