Graham Willgoss
@grahamwillgoss.bsky.social
Cycling broadcaster + writer |🎙The Cycling Podcast; Sir Bradley Wiggins’ Café Aficionado | ⏪ Paris Olympics for talkSPORT | The Bradley Wiggins Show; Re-Cycle pod for Eurosport | Formerly Sport mag chief sub + cycling editor
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The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together.
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
archive.is/8VqQJ
[this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]
Reposted by Graham Willgoss
This Vuelta a España cannot continue with Israel-Premier Tech. This calls on serious governance from the UCI. David Lappartient has always insisted he can't take political decisions that don't align with the IOC's view, but this is beyond political: it's affecting the running of the sport.
September 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This Vuelta a España cannot continue with Israel-Premier Tech. This calls on serious governance from the UCI. David Lappartient has always insisted he can't take political decisions that don't align with the IOC's view, but this is beyond political: it's affecting the running of the sport.
G’s Last Dance at the #TourOfBritain – for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social 🏴
September 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
G’s Last Dance at the #TourOfBritain – for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social 🏴
#TDF2025 Stage 21: We’ll Always Have Paris – for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social.
Lionel’s first Lime Bike means we make it to Montmartre for a scintillating six-way shootout up and down the cobbles, and François gives us a little Champs-Élysées history. Plus: #AnyOtherBosness
🎧 pod.fo/e/3036f1
Lionel’s first Lime Bike means we make it to Montmartre for a scintillating six-way shootout up and down the cobbles, and François gives us a little Champs-Élysées history. Plus: #AnyOtherBosness
🎧 pod.fo/e/3036f1
July 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#TDF2025 Stage 21: We’ll Always Have Paris – for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social.
Lionel’s first Lime Bike means we make it to Montmartre for a scintillating six-way shootout up and down the cobbles, and François gives us a little Champs-Élysées history. Plus: #AnyOtherBosness
🎧 pod.fo/e/3036f1
Lionel’s first Lime Bike means we make it to Montmartre for a scintillating six-way shootout up and down the cobbles, and François gives us a little Champs-Élysées history. Plus: #AnyOtherBosness
🎧 pod.fo/e/3036f1
#TDF2025 Stage 20: Penultimate Stop, Pontarlier – for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social
We bounce on to the road to Paris like a kangaroo on a trampoline after Aussie strongman Kaden Groves’ solo break. Plus: Whitey’s Whiteboard, #AnyOtherBosness and our Geraint Thomas send-off.
🎧 pod.fo/e/303077
We bounce on to the road to Paris like a kangaroo on a trampoline after Aussie strongman Kaden Groves’ solo break. Plus: Whitey’s Whiteboard, #AnyOtherBosness and our Geraint Thomas send-off.
🎧 pod.fo/e/303077
July 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#TDF2025 Stage 20: Penultimate Stop, Pontarlier – for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social
We bounce on to the road to Paris like a kangaroo on a trampoline after Aussie strongman Kaden Groves’ solo break. Plus: Whitey’s Whiteboard, #AnyOtherBosness and our Geraint Thomas send-off.
🎧 pod.fo/e/303077
We bounce on to the road to Paris like a kangaroo on a trampoline after Aussie strongman Kaden Groves’ solo break. Plus: Whitey’s Whiteboard, #AnyOtherBosness and our Geraint Thomas send-off.
🎧 pod.fo/e/303077
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@thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social takes a look at the latest Sky/Ineos stories
David Walsh says trusting Brailsford was the biggest mistake of his career
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David Walsh says trusting Brailsford was the biggest mistake of his career
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KM0: Never Go Back? Why Questions From The Past Continue To Haunt Brailsford
Podcast Episode · The Cycling Podcast · 07/24/2025 · 36m
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July 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
@thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social takes a look at the latest Sky/Ineos stories
David Walsh says trusting Brailsford was the biggest mistake of his career
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
David Walsh says trusting Brailsford was the biggest mistake of his career
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
#TDF2025 Stage 18 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Ghosts in the Mist
We dissect the Queen Stage of this year’s Tour, which finished with the brutal Col de la Loze and didn’t disappoint. Plus: François on 50 years of the Polka Dot Jersey and #AnyOtherBosness
📷 Simon Gill
🎧 pod.fo/e/301d72
We dissect the Queen Stage of this year’s Tour, which finished with the brutal Col de la Loze and didn’t disappoint. Plus: François on 50 years of the Polka Dot Jersey and #AnyOtherBosness
📷 Simon Gill
🎧 pod.fo/e/301d72
July 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#TDF2025 Stage 18 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Ghosts in the Mist
We dissect the Queen Stage of this year’s Tour, which finished with the brutal Col de la Loze and didn’t disappoint. Plus: François on 50 years of the Polka Dot Jersey and #AnyOtherBosness
📷 Simon Gill
🎧 pod.fo/e/301d72
We dissect the Queen Stage of this year’s Tour, which finished with the brutal Col de la Loze and didn’t disappoint. Plus: François on 50 years of the Polka Dot Jersey and #AnyOtherBosness
📷 Simon Gill
🎧 pod.fo/e/301d72
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Alessandro De Marchi has told me he is "happy and relieved" to no longer be riding for Israel-Premier Tech. "I wouldn’t be able to manage the feelings I have, to be able to be involved in something like that.”
Story for @observeruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Story for @observeruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Alessandro De Marchi: I’m relieved to not be cycling for ...
39-year-old Italian says he would have struggled to cycle for Tour de France team
observer.co.uk
July 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Alessandro De Marchi has told me he is "happy and relieved" to no longer be riding for Israel-Premier Tech. "I wouldn’t be able to manage the feelings I have, to be able to be involved in something like that.”
Story for @observeruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
Story for @observeruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
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This is what the Col de La Madeleine looks like on a good day (from a ride up there with The Cycling Podcast’s @grahamwillgoss.bsky.social last September).
July 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This is what the Col de La Madeleine looks like on a good day (from a ride up there with The Cycling Podcast’s @grahamwillgoss.bsky.social last September).
Last night’s TCP sleeping arrangements. Today’s stage.
July 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Last night’s TCP sleeping arrangements. Today’s stage.
#TDF2025 Stage 15: The Cassoulet Podcast – for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social.
We’re all in for another aggressive stage with €40 of dog food, we hear from WvA and Victor Campenaerts on the day’s big break, plus Whitey’s Whiteboard and your qs answered in #AnyOtherBosness.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2ff235
We’re all in for another aggressive stage with €40 of dog food, we hear from WvA and Victor Campenaerts on the day’s big break, plus Whitey’s Whiteboard and your qs answered in #AnyOtherBosness.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2ff235
July 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#TDF2025 Stage 15: The Cassoulet Podcast – for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social.
We’re all in for another aggressive stage with €40 of dog food, we hear from WvA and Victor Campenaerts on the day’s big break, plus Whitey’s Whiteboard and your qs answered in #AnyOtherBosness.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2ff235
We’re all in for another aggressive stage with €40 of dog food, we hear from WvA and Victor Campenaerts on the day’s big break, plus Whitey’s Whiteboard and your qs answered in #AnyOtherBosness.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2ff235
#TDF2025 Stage 13 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Tadej Pogačar beats the living daylights out of the Peyragudes TT.
We drop just the right number of Bond references, hear from Sepp Kuss and Neilson Powless, and Mr White talks tactics.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fe720
We drop just the right number of Bond references, hear from Sepp Kuss and Neilson Powless, and Mr White talks tactics.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fe720
July 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
#TDF2025 Stage 13 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Tadej Pogačar beats the living daylights out of the Peyragudes TT.
We drop just the right number of Bond references, hear from Sepp Kuss and Neilson Powless, and Mr White talks tactics.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fe720
We drop just the right number of Bond references, hear from Sepp Kuss and Neilson Powless, and Mr White talks tactics.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fe720
#TDF2025 Stage 10 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Massif Attack
It was fireworks from the gun on Bastille Day 🇫🇷
We digest the Tour’s entrée to the mountains with some help from Whitey’s Whiteboard, plus Jonathan Vaughters gets tearful talking Ben Healy’s ascent to yellow.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fbbe1
It was fireworks from the gun on Bastille Day 🇫🇷
We digest the Tour’s entrée to the mountains with some help from Whitey’s Whiteboard, plus Jonathan Vaughters gets tearful talking Ben Healy’s ascent to yellow.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fbbe1
July 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#TDF2025 Stage 10 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Massif Attack
It was fireworks from the gun on Bastille Day 🇫🇷
We digest the Tour’s entrée to the mountains with some help from Whitey’s Whiteboard, plus Jonathan Vaughters gets tearful talking Ben Healy’s ascent to yellow.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fbbe1
It was fireworks from the gun on Bastille Day 🇫🇷
We digest the Tour’s entrée to the mountains with some help from Whitey’s Whiteboard, plus Jonathan Vaughters gets tearful talking Ben Healy’s ascent to yellow.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fbbe1
TdF2025 Stage 10: 4,307m of climbing, you say?
Things are looking up.
Things are looking up.
July 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
TdF2025 Stage 10: 4,307m of climbing, you say?
Things are looking up.
Things are looking up.
#TdF2025 Stage 9 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Take Me Down to Cavendish City
Huge Mathieu van der Poel (heart)break, with a tip of the lime green Van Rysel bucket hat to his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate Jonas Rickaert and stage winner Tim Merlier in Châteauroux.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fb2c3
Huge Mathieu van der Poel (heart)break, with a tip of the lime green Van Rysel bucket hat to his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate Jonas Rickaert and stage winner Tim Merlier in Châteauroux.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fb2c3
July 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#TdF2025 Stage 9 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Take Me Down to Cavendish City
Huge Mathieu van der Poel (heart)break, with a tip of the lime green Van Rysel bucket hat to his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate Jonas Rickaert and stage winner Tim Merlier in Châteauroux.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fb2c3
Huge Mathieu van der Poel (heart)break, with a tip of the lime green Van Rysel bucket hat to his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate Jonas Rickaert and stage winner Tim Merlier in Châteauroux.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2fb2c3
July 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#TdF2025 Stage 8 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Putting the Cheval in Laval.
Lionel visits the Louison Bobet museum, we gallop through today’s sprint finish with some help from Whitey’s Whiteboard, plus Picnic PostNL’s Matt Winston on the big picture for Oscar Onley’s Tour.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2faa9a
Lionel visits the Louison Bobet museum, we gallop through today’s sprint finish with some help from Whitey’s Whiteboard, plus Picnic PostNL’s Matt Winston on the big picture for Oscar Onley’s Tour.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2faa9a
July 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
#TdF2025 Stage 8 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Putting the Cheval in Laval.
Lionel visits the Louison Bobet museum, we gallop through today’s sprint finish with some help from Whitey’s Whiteboard, plus Picnic PostNL’s Matt Winston on the big picture for Oscar Onley’s Tour.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2faa9a
Lionel visits the Louison Bobet museum, we gallop through today’s sprint finish with some help from Whitey’s Whiteboard, plus Picnic PostNL’s Matt Winston on the big picture for Oscar Onley’s Tour.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2faa9a
#TDF2025 Stage 7 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Mûr-de on the Dance Floor.
Having been in amongst it at today’s finish, we chew over the talking points from the Mûr-de-Bretagne as Tadej Pogačar does his best to kill Jonas Vingegaard’s groove.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f9f6d
Having been in amongst it at today’s finish, we chew over the talking points from the Mûr-de-Bretagne as Tadej Pogačar does his best to kill Jonas Vingegaard’s groove.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f9f6d
July 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
#TDF2025 Stage 7 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: Mûr-de on the Dance Floor.
Having been in amongst it at today’s finish, we chew over the talking points from the Mûr-de-Bretagne as Tadej Pogačar does his best to kill Jonas Vingegaard’s groove.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f9f6d
Having been in amongst it at today’s finish, we chew over the talking points from the Mûr-de-Bretagne as Tadej Pogačar does his best to kill Jonas Vingegaard’s groove.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f9f6d
July 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
#TdF2025 Stage 6 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: The Bayeux Tapestry.
A supreme achievement renowned for its complexity, length and exquisite workmanship: Ben Healy’s win was one for the books. We talk to Harry Sweeny and EF DS Tom Southam.
We also visit the actual tapestry.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f943e
A supreme achievement renowned for its complexity, length and exquisite workmanship: Ben Healy’s win was one for the books. We talk to Harry Sweeny and EF DS Tom Southam.
We also visit the actual tapestry.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f943e
July 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
#TdF2025 Stage 6 for @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social: The Bayeux Tapestry.
A supreme achievement renowned for its complexity, length and exquisite workmanship: Ben Healy’s win was one for the books. We talk to Harry Sweeny and EF DS Tom Southam.
We also visit the actual tapestry.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f943e
A supreme achievement renowned for its complexity, length and exquisite workmanship: Ben Healy’s win was one for the books. We talk to Harry Sweeny and EF DS Tom Southam.
We also visit the actual tapestry.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f943e
#TDF2025 Stage 4: The Road to Rouen.
Tadej Pogačar is 100 not out, Picnic PostNL’s Matt Winston on Oscar Onley being the 4th-best rider in the world, Michael Woods on rider safety, Whitey’s Whiteboard and Simon Gill’s Gilliver’s Travels report from the Côte Jacques Anquetil.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f7c8e
Tadej Pogačar is 100 not out, Picnic PostNL’s Matt Winston on Oscar Onley being the 4th-best rider in the world, Michael Woods on rider safety, Whitey’s Whiteboard and Simon Gill’s Gilliver’s Travels report from the Côte Jacques Anquetil.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f7c8e
July 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#TDF2025 Stage 4: The Road to Rouen.
Tadej Pogačar is 100 not out, Picnic PostNL’s Matt Winston on Oscar Onley being the 4th-best rider in the world, Michael Woods on rider safety, Whitey’s Whiteboard and Simon Gill’s Gilliver’s Travels report from the Côte Jacques Anquetil.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f7c8e
Tadej Pogačar is 100 not out, Picnic PostNL’s Matt Winston on Oscar Onley being the 4th-best rider in the world, Michael Woods on rider safety, Whitey’s Whiteboard and Simon Gill’s Gilliver’s Travels report from the Côte Jacques Anquetil.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f7c8e
Time just sort of disappears when you’re following the #TourDeFrance. I’ve missed trailing at least one @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social episode, but here’s a flavour.
📷 Simon Gill
📷 Simon Gill
July 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Time just sort of disappears when you’re following the #TourDeFrance. I’ve missed trailing at least one @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social episode, but here’s a flavour.
📷 Simon Gill
📷 Simon Gill
#TdF2025 Stage 2: a picnic at KM92 became a coffee in the rain at KM29 in Arras.
Hot Stuff and A Sunday In Hell: our latest @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social dispatch from a soggy old Tour day that didn’t go to plan – unless you are Mathieu van der Poel, of course.
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Hot Stuff and A Sunday In Hell: our latest @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social dispatch from a soggy old Tour day that didn’t go to plan – unless you are Mathieu van der Poel, of course.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f6acd
July 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
#TdF2025 Stage 2: a picnic at KM92 became a coffee in the rain at KM29 in Arras.
Hot Stuff and A Sunday In Hell: our latest @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social dispatch from a soggy old Tour day that didn’t go to plan – unless you are Mathieu van der Poel, of course.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f6acd
Hot Stuff and A Sunday In Hell: our latest @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social dispatch from a soggy old Tour day that didn’t go to plan – unless you are Mathieu van der Poel, of course.
🎧 pod.fo/e/2f6acd
Something to keep you (and everyone else) occupied, innit?
Jonas Vingegaard is attacking purely for his own entertainment at this Tour de France. www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/i-did...
'I did it for fun' - Jonas Vingegaard goes on the attack at Tour de France
Two-time winner launched a surprise attack on the road to Bolougne-sur-Mer, later admitting that it had been purely for his own entertainment
www.cyclingweekly.com
July 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Something to keep you (and everyone else) occupied, innit?