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Frame Text: How to Draw a Horse by Emma Hunsinger References: Podium at Super Prestige Diem (2011) | "Aux racines de la rivalité entre Mathieu Van der Poel et Wout Van Aert" (L'Equipe) | Podium at Cyclocross World Championships Juniors (2012) | Wout trailing Mathieu at at Cyclocross World Championships Juniors (2012) | Podium at Cyclocross World Championships Elite (2017) | Wout winning an unknown race | "Van Aert: Van der Poel has always motivated me to beat him" (Cycling News) | Podium at Cyclocross World Cup Hoogerheide (2016) | Podium at Cyclocross World Championships Elite (2015) | Cyclocross Otegem Start Line (2017) | "Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert: The anatomy of a rivalry" (Cycling News) | Otegem (2017) | "Mathieu van der Poel en Wout van Aert, de koningen van de cross: 'Als je niet kunt afzien, moet je gaan voetballen'" (Humo) | Otegem (2017) | Cyclocross Otegem Start Line (2018) | Cyclocross Valkenburg World Cup (2016) | "LOENHOUT: Super Van Aert wins a Trofee 'super modder' + MORE PHOTOS & TV COVERAGE" (Cyclocross Rider) | "The van der Poel-van Aert rivalry: 'It’s impossible for us to be friends'" (Le Course en Tête) | Podium at 18th Superprestige Heusden-Zolder Elite (2022) | Wout and Mathieu after an unknown race (2014) | Mathieu and Wout during the Cyclocross World Championships (2016) | Wout touching Mathieu's back after the Cyclocross World Cup Namur (2020) | Wout and Mathieu after the Tour of Flanders (2020) | Wout and Mathieu after the UCI World Championships - Road (2023)

I can't get this song out of my head (en sommerdag for alt for længe siden - TV-2)

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english version

GIVE WOMEN THREE WEEK GRAND TOURS

okay right let’s get something straight about kevin magnussen in the context of sports nepo babies: kevin does not fit the traditional understanding of it at all. the best you can say is that he is the son of another motor racer - but he has very much /not/ had the advantages that other drivers including: lance stroll, mick schumacher, carlos sainz jr and max verstappen have had. here’s why:

- jan magnussen fathered kevin when he was nineteen. kevin was raised by a single mother and self-admittedly did not have a conventional relationship with his father and describes it as “more of a friendship”.

- jan magnussen didn’t have any money to support kevin’s career. in fact in 2008, kevin had to give up racing and take work as a welder. that’s basically the closest thing the grid has to being working class.

so yeah, kevin’s surname opened some doors for him at mclaren, but that is literally it. in fact jan magnussen’s success (like his le mans win) actually came after kevin’s career in f1 had begun. kevin does not have any family wealth backing him, didn’t have anyone giving him helping him to secure seats or sponsors, and his dad’s name carried very limited weight until after he’d already been dropped by mclaren. he was not groomed from birth to be a racer like some and has never had a safety net.

this really puts into context why he’s such a scrappy little bastard as a racer and why he loves his scrappy little bastard team so much. they may have passed over him in favour of money in the form of nikita mazepin but they were very upset about having to do so to stay afloat and got him back as soon as the opportunity was there. that’s loyalty!

just to illustrate how completely serious a sport this is, the uci just fined isaac del toro 200 chf for “damaging the image of the sport” for - wait for it - celebrating his milano-torino win with his jersey fully unzipped

-Logan DNF because he felt ill

-Esties threw up by lap 15

-Lance stumbled to the ambulance after getting out of the car

-Max and Oscar couldn't even stand

-George had to take his hands off the wheel, opened his visor for air in pit

-Alex couldn't get out of his car for 2 minutes and needed assistance

-Fernando complained about his seat was too hot

-Kevin Magnussen requesting to have the 'leaf blowers' directed at him by the Haas mechanics

-Bottas said it was “torture” and on the limit of being acceptable to race in

-Yuki tried opening his visor to get more air in, only for sand to blow in

BAN THIS GP

i now have a top 3 podium pictures of all time btw

Texts from: Ada Limón, “Some place like montana” // "directly at the sun" by Heather Christle // assorted quotes & headlines from Cyclingnews.com // thursday by James Longenbach// Michael Dumanis, untitled poem // Kavejh Akbar, from PERSONAL INVENTORY: FEARLESS (TEMPORIS FILA) // Vona Groarke, [september]

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