Dan Deakins
@dandeakins
Cycling
"Mr Farage isn't here under advice by his security team. It's definitely not because his opponent, a bin, got 9 thousand votes"
Demi Vollering, the first two-time winner of the Tour de France Femmes, and finally, gets a stage win in the yellow jersey 🤩 What a race 💛👏
Louis Barré had such a great 2025, it sucked that his 2026 was delayed by long covid and a knee injury. His first pro victory wasn't guaranteed by moving to Visma, but he had all the potential.
Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney. The first person in any Tour de France to win on Mont Ventoux and take the yellow jersey. Her first stage win in seven years! Take a fucking bow, you legend 💛🇵🇱 15 seconds to Vollering. 39 seconds to Reusser. 2 stages to go. Holy shit.
Kasia did all she could do, and it very nearly came off. What a stunning stage 👏🤩
Onley's first individual victory in Ineos colours after an injury and illness disrupted season. Vuelta, here we come!
Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset. Her first professional road race victory (outside of NC) and the yellow jersey of the Tour de France Femmes with it. That's my 'witnessing greatness' 👏👏👏
What I needed was a fashion show to celebrate one UAE investment fund swallowing up another. Only in cycling.
The sun sets on another Tour. This one feels a lot different to the previous 5, because there was no yellow jersey battle. But what we did get was a lot of confirmation of talent; Remco, Del Toro, and the most impressive, Seixas. Pogi's 5th was a formality, but hardly surprising. 📸 visualsofharry
I'm only being an old man shouting at clouds because I used to do these posts for ITV, but what was history making about it?
Mads won the green jersey in the most unconventional way possible, in the year Prudhomme tried to favour the pure sprinters. The record books will show in 2026 it was won by, not the best sprinter, but by the best accumulator of points. Which is what the green jersey was conceived as anyway.
Mathieu emptying himself to obliteration is the single best thing in cycling
Back doing the Dunwich Dynamo after 15 years away. An overnight ride from Hackney to Dunwich, Suffolk. Always an amazing atmosphere, hundreds of cyclists, and a stonking tailwind for us. That did mean a stonking headwind on the way back, which was GRIM 💀
Richie Carapaz, you tiny dancer 😍 An incredible stage, and so much to keep track of - UAE falling apart on Galibier - Pogacar riding too hard for Del Toro - Decathlon blowing up Seixas - Sepp nearly having a horrific crash - Pogacar choice to stay with Del Toro - Remco within 26" of the win Cinema
Forget the stage win, tomorrow is all about the polka dot jersey. 7 points between Carapaz and Paret-Peintre, and there's something absurd like 70 points maximum to be claimed tomorrow, plus another finish on top on Le Alpe. Fireworks.
Most of the time, I find 'witnessing greatest' quite dull. A 2 hour solo and a foregone conclusion is not interesting to me. That, however, was special. New Alpe d'Huez record 💛🎩
Carapaz's palmares is quite unique. So many GT stage wins, a maglia rosa, polka dot jersey. But he's intentionally avoided facing Pogacar and Vingegaard. And it's worked out.