I've been lucky enough to go to numerous World Your cycling races. Feeling guys blow past you while climbing a fucking ski mountain is insane. Bring on the boards for a sprint finish with everyone elbowing at 70kmph is genuinely terrifying.

the single most typical upper class Viennese man in existence

Luge is much more challenging technically as well, far less dependent on athleticism at the start and much more so on actually piloting the sled.

He is nicknamed "The Herminator" for a reason. Absolute legend.

He hosts a sports show in TV here in Austria and still races contestants to this day 😂

Just made the same decision ... except it's already 3am here

@jacketdan.bsky.social this GT defense is real bad, isn't it?

I've seen some bad GT defensive performances in my time, but this might be the worst one. Just a complete meltdown.

Been a while since I was in Dresden as well 😆

Don't think it's 2 levels, but Augustus II the Strong built a bridge from the Taschenbergpalais to the castle for his very influential mistress Anna Constantia to use

I would need to be tranquilized to survive that matchup

Very unlucky bicycle crash 😢

Seems I should recover 100% in 6 months - 1 year

I listened to this on morphine after breaking my femur. Not sure what parts I hallucinated and which parts were actually in the episode.

Kazakhstan is awesome, and would probably be your favorite place in the world if you visited.

Near Almaty I had a guy offer to let me have a giant steppe eagle sit on my arm. Took one look at a bird with a 1.5m+ wingspan and those giant talons and figured it was better to just admire safely.

It's eerily similar to his performance on the Hautacam in 2022 where he basically sealed the Tour for Vingegaard dropping back from the break and pacing him like a motor bike.

Just a crazy unique rider.