My Worlds Have Collided

so much love to robert gesink for his incredible career🥰🎉🥇 enjoy retirement!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEPPIE

⚠️⚠️CONTENT WARNING: MENTIONS OF WEIGHT AND HEIGHT IN RELATION TO CYCLING/SPORTS AND HEALTH ETC. The USA national support hotline for eating d*sorders is (800) 931-2237.⚠️⚠️

so for those of you who didn't see wout's post stage interview, he made an interesting comment about Sepp's weight, essentially about the idea of Sepp being 60 kgs and doing such an incredible pull to close the gap on stage 7.

this is actually insane. for those of you who don't know, Sepp currently weighs 61 kgs (134 lbs) and is 1.82 meters tall (essentially 6 feet). For context, Remco Evenepoel is the same weight and is 1.71 meters tall (5 feet 7 inches). For more context, super domestique Wout is 0.08 meters taller than Sepp (about 1 or 2 inches), but weighs 78 kgs (171 lbs). For more context, as a fairly in shape person but non professional cyclist, I am 1.57 meters (5 feet, 2 inches) tall and weigh about 57 kgs (126 lbs).

Reminder that last year, Sepp was also a super domestique, and was likely a similar weight to Wout. His job was blocking the wind for Jonas and Primoz. However, now he's expected to be at the weight of a GC contender, despite being the height of a super domestique.

Overall, this just makes me really really worried about his health. Especially looking at the fact that he has been suffering really badly from the effects of getting covid in May/June, and I wonder if there's some correlation with this drastic weight loss.

TO BE CLEAR: I know Sepp is a professional athlete, and I know that VLaB has the best nutritionists keeping an eye on his health and recovery. However, it is nearly impossible for me to imagine a healthy way to drop that much weight, particularly considering the difference between his previous race weight and now.

Today's Visma Lease-a-Bike accomplishments 💛🖤🤍

Wout secured the maillot rojo for stage 3 of the Vuelta! ❤️❤️

Wout also managed to place 2nd in the bunch sprint at the end of the second stage of La Vuelta! Not yet the win we're looking for, but he's getting close!

Marianne Vos WON the maillot vert at the Tour de France Femmes!💚💚💚 Absolutely incredible accomplishment!

Olac Kooij with his second stage win of the Tour de Pologne!! 🥇🥇

And, to finish it out, a beautiful Jonas Vingegaard - Wilco Kelderman 1-2 in the GC of the Tour de Pologne!💛💛💛

The bees are really shining right now and it's so so deserved after such a rough year💛🖤🤍

no because the rest of my fam bought so hard into the netflix plotline and im so hyped to be like LOOK AT HIM THO LOOK AT WHAT HE CAN DO

the power of a bad netflix episode (ben o’connor framed as a tantrum throwing child and incompetent gc leader, said arc is resolved by him riding support, everyone goes ham on the david gaudu/ben o’connor flop climber narrative, sneakily top 10’s giro and no one gives a fuck, goes to vuelta, attacks and goes on a 5’30” gap breakaway, wins stage, HAS RED JERSEY? WITH 4’51” ON PRIMOZ ROGLIC??? netflix returns to writers room)

Interviewer: Did you tell them you were confident? Did you think your back would allow this?

Primoz: No, but nobody asked me... I would've told them to go slower

GUYS SOMEONE BOOKMARKED MY WORK ON AO3

THE EAGLE OF DURANGO OUT ON COURSE!!🦅🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

i can and will continue to somewhat quote luke rowe on this one: the challenge for roglic in the tdf is the stay on his bike

hey primoz so how does it feel to always be so close?

credits under cut

not strong enough - boygenius // primoz roglic - stage 4, tour de france 2020 // primoz roglic and tadej pogacar - podium ceremony, tour de france 2020 // we were young - fortesa latifi // remco evenepoel, primoz roglic get tour de france taste at paris-nice - afp report (flobikes) // primoz roglic - podium ceremony, vuelta a espana 2021 // jonas vingegaard, sepp kuss, primoz roglic - vuelta a espana 2023 // paris-nice | watch: primoz roglic’s bad luck returns to haunt slovenian star - in the bunch // the miseltoe murders - mark romel // primoz roglic - podium ceremony, giro d‘italia 2023 // primoz roglic - stage 16, vuelta a espana 2022 // the tour de france dream is dead: primoz roglic’s curse of crashes - rachel jary // roglic abandons vuelta after stage 16 crash - road bike action magazine // primoz roglic - podium ceremony, adriatico 2023 // primoz roglic - stage 20, tour de france 2020 // a self portrait in letters - anne sexton

EDUARDO AFFINI beating josh tarling by 0.28 seconds😲😲😲