On Twitter most of my friends and mutual were also journos and I forget that you guys here are unpaid experts

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Sometimes I feel like a real imposter on Bluesky because every now and then everyone on my TL will start dragging cycling media and journalists and I'm like

All good, sending good mental vibes to u and good collarbone vibes to Morg

I mean i am happy to be wrong and this afternoon was chaotic but I rewound a few times and changed the wording a few times to try to get it right

I mean he quite literally did collide with Vauquelin idk what to say about that. Vauquelin crashed and Matteo had nowhere to go except into him

I thought it was downhill and the wet was why multiple riders went down on different occasions on the same corner but idk I can really only go off TV and comms and a replay

Guys them is me

Um eek

Paula Blasi: Wins the #AGRwomen solo, chugs the podium beer in one go. 🍻

SD Worx crisis era

Kasia finally winning the sprint and it's for second is just cruel

Paulaaaa

And unfortunately the way TV figures are collected is not qualitative in any country so even if sponsors would like to know that, there's no way to know how focused ppl were

OF COURSE

No that's what I'm saying- if that many people in France tuned into the TDFF on its own, then i am inclined to believe that a lot of people would also watch Roubaix! We have prior evidence that womens cycling is popular in France

That is a wild stat

Yes Bristol! I think she was more like "please get me out of the rain" 😆

Showed her the bridge. She didn't really care

Personal space is at a premium

It could do, although I think with the massive numbers for Tour Femmes last year it certainly tracks! Also even if you watched it just because you didn't turn the TV off, you still watched it 😆

That 70% is for peak in France (same figure for womens was 1 million last year according to same site) www.ozap.com/actu/audienc...

Agree. I also think the way Strade Bianche is set up works pretty well for TV viewers - tho I know people do want to watch the flag to finish men's Roubaix

Yeah I mean i think positives are a side effect rather than an intention on ASO's part, but still important

It's so obvious that there are many downsides to the one day thing and I remain not a fan of it BUT I think we have to look at what matters the most. And when it comes to sponsoring teams and races, it's that TV figure that will matter

If TV viewership of women's Roubaix was up 70% as suggested then that is a good thing. We can hand wring about other things and whether the "right" kind of fans were at the roadside but this is what we have wanted FOREVER. More eyes on the sport. So silly to be like meh whatever about that

Ah gotcha - I had seen it was a translated quote, not just being unnecessarily harsh to someone speaking their second language 😆

Yeah i think its translation but I never understand using a translation that doesn't make sense to your readers

What does "sit up and lead" mean

Poor Marianne though man what is it with this race for her

Have the feeling that PFP held back from attacking and then for Vos to not win... not ideal