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[pro-cycling-primers]

🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️ So, you're interested in starting watching cycling in 2025 (I hope), but have no idea where to start? 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

Before the start of the road cycling season this year, I thought I'd post some information for people completely new to the sport. You might have seen some Tumblr posts going crazy about men and women in tight lycra, or watched a bit of the Tour de France on TV once, or maybe this post found you some other way! Let's get to it.

When does it happen?

Cycling doesn't have a set timetable nor are races only at weekends. It's mostly the same each year, but there have been some changes over the hundred-plus years professional cycling has been around.

The WorldTour (highest level of pro cycling, more about that in a later post) season lasts officially from January until October, with the full women's calendar for 2025 looking like this:

And the men's like this:

Don't try to watch all of them. Or do, I'm just a Tumblr blogger hoping more people get interested in this great sport 🤷

Okay then, which races should I watch?

The answers to this are many and varied; every list of 'best races to watch' will have at least one cycling fan clamouring 'But HOW could you ignore [x]!?'

In terms of basic introduction to the sport, I think this would give a solid season-wide grounding:

Five one-day races have mostly arbitrarily been declared The Monuments: Milano-Sanremo, Paris-Roubaix, de Ronde van Vlaanderen, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and Il Lombardia. (A more detailed post about these will be coming later in the season). All but Lombardia have men's and women's versions, with Milano-Sanremo Donne running for the first time in 2025, though Trofeo Alfredo Binda is a more well-established women's race in a similar region at a similar time.

Each has its own quirks, history, and favour different kinds of riders. The big names (except the pure stage racers) will be there.

I'd also recommend one of the early-season one-week stage races, Paris-Nice or Tirreno-Adriatico. They run at the same time, for one week in March, and present the first opportunity for the top stage racers to stretch their legs (another post about different types of riders will come). On the women's side, Itzulia Women or Tour de Suisse.

One of the Grand Tours is in my view, essential: Giro d'Italia, Vuelta a España, or the big one, the Tour de France

If you want, you can disregard this entire section and just watch the Tour. It's the biggest race there is, the most-covered, and teams bring their best riders in their best shape. It's a massive cultural event. If you take nothing from this post other than following a little closer in July, then it has been a success in my book.

How can I watch cycling?

Cycling has a serious lack of easily accessible coverage. Every race organiser has different TV rights arrangements, varying MASSIVELY from country to country, with some having free-to-air coverage of most races on national television but some having no option other than the paid services Discovery+ and Eurosport.

For an international suggestion there is a lovely site: tiz [dash] cycling [dot] io has free (!) livestreams of every race you could feasibly ever want to watch, and a back catalogue covering most of the last decade +

5-15 minute highlight videos from YouTube channels such as Eurosport, FloBikes etc. are also available a few hours after a race finishes! The Tour de France has its own channel with decent highlights and interviews.

See you later in the season!

[dawnofprismatica]

Me normally vs when it's olympic time

[rayyzcosmos]

Kroos, Reus, Bonucci, T. Silva, Chhetri bid goodbyes this season....

who said a sport cannot make you ugly cry?

[che-de-di-co]

"Il bene si fa, ma non si dice. E certe medaglie si appendono all'anima, non alla giacca.

[Gino Bartali]

[mitchellparker]

hey hi hello

ziggy or ferris, any pronouns, autistic, 20, bi (gender & sexual), learning ASL. i’ve been a fan of baseball since i was 8 years old and this special interest refuses to evacuate my brain.

main: @yellowjackets96 / asoiaf sideblog: @helaenarya / writing sideblog: @believemenatalie

ULT BIASES

teams: washington nationals, cleveland guardians

players: ryan zimmerman, max scherzer, jose ramirez, sean doolittle, shane bieber, josiah gray, triston mckenzie, jordan zimmermann, victor robles, juan soto, eli morgan, CJ abrams, lane thomas, daniel hudson, luis garcía jr, steven kwan, keibert ruiz, jake irvin, mackenzie gore, mitchell parker, riley adams, stone garrett, andrés giménez, the naylor bros, gio gonzález, will brennan, emmanuel clase, tanner bibee, kyle finnegan, and probably many others im forgetting :]

OTHERS I ENJOY

teams: arizona diamondbacks, tampa bay rays

players: shohei ohtani, corbin carroll, zac gallen, ketel marte, ryan mcmahon, carlos correa, byron buxton, ozzie albies, mike trout — essentially, anyone with whom i’ve had nice encounters, and/or find silly :D

[saucingitup]

and this is why baseball is the best sport (see also: these baseball sidequests)

[justcatposts]

Sport is life

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[pro-cycling-primers]

👋 Welcome to @pro-cycling-primers! 👋

So. Netflix dropped last year the second season of Tour de France: Unchained, and inspired by the fantastic work of @f1-primers, I thought I would start this sideblog to create an introduction of sorts for new fans, and eventually create a repository for all sorts of informative posts here on cyclblr :)

Welcome! Please feel free to ask questions or submit your own primers/guides/introductions on anything you like; particular race/edition of race, rider, team, rivalry, history, lore, tech, whatever! I will also reblog any guides I see/am tagged in.

Please correct me! I'm a lone cycling fan hoping to attract more people to the sport, and don't know or purport to know everything about the sport.

This post will change as this blog grows and more primers are posted :)

✏️ Want to contribute but can't pick a topic? Here is a list of ideas/launching points :)

[dawnofprismatica]

idk is there a sports side of tumblr? i wonder if that exists like there's sports twitter. i think sports tumblr would be really fun

[incognitopolls]

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[hardtchill]

Your cheat sheet to every VERY LEGAL stream to watch Olympic events

First of, don't worry, streams are very easy for the Olympics. Some will even be free in your own country even if those aren't always the highest quality. Anyway, for people living in countries that require you to buy a subscription to watch i have a VERY LEGAL way to watch the games anyway.

These are websites that will help you find a stream, just make sure to instal an adblocker extension (i would suggest ublock origin but others work as well) before you visit these websites.

Freestreams https://freestreams-live.my/ is my go to atm for basically any sport. The bigger sports and games you can easily find by entering the name of the country (in case of football) or the name of the sport in the "search event here" bar. Most games come up right away and you simply click "watch" and then the stream you wish to watch. If your game/sport doesn't come up and it's within 4 hours of it starting you need to go another route. Google on what channel your event will be broadcasted and go to the 24/7 TV tab on freestreams. Find the right channel and voila, you're set.

4streams If Freestreams can't provide my next stop is usually to go to https://4stream.watch/, this website sometimes has streams that are a little bit more niche. Again just use the searchbar and press watch when you find your event. 4stream will open up a new tab and link you to tv247365. If the first stream doesn't play, click on the next one under the black screen.

Sportfeed24 https://www.sportsfeed24.com/ is another website i sometimes use. I'm not quite as successful as with the other two websites but sometimes it does. It focusses on US sports so not as much variety but still a handy website. Soccerstreams https://top.soccerstreams100.io/ another useful site at times. A little bit more annoying to navigate sometimes but it usually has plenty of streams and includes the names of the channels (when something is shown on different channels or different countries). Useful when you're trying to find the right language. Again, US focussed so has a particular focus in sports.

There are plenty more VERY LEGAL websites, but these i currently use. If you can't find what you're looking for sent me an ask and i'm sure i will be able to find it for you. I have 5 weeks off so challenge me with some obscure sports please or my brain will turn to mush.

[aeolianblues]

My understanding of hockey from Tumblr is: 'I need that Canadian man on his knees and begging like a dog'

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Life in southern Gaza is hell and we live in a tragic situation with the onset of winter while we are in tents

We face daily financial difficulties 💰 that make things even more complicated 🧳.

My goal is to raise 8500💵 to ease these financial burdens, and there are only 350euros left to reach this amount 🏁.

Every support, no matter how small 💫, will make a huge impact in helping us 🤲.

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[scarlettphantoms]

Sporty/Athletic Hawks has my heart :D

[nature-hiking]

Fresh snow on the mountains - Zillertal, Austria, february 2022

photo by: nature-hiking