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Matt Rendell @[email protected]
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Cycling, TV & print. Author, Colombia Es Pasión. Procolombia Ambassador for Tourism. Bike/business trips in Colombia & Italy (contact http://italybiketours.com).
Are there grassroots football fans organisations out there who like to support what I think is the world’s largest indigenous football tournament?
"Our aim was to transform a small local English club into a small local club with a global fanbase.” bbc.com/news/articles/… This makes me think: could we do the same for the 130 indigenous teams that compete in the Mundialito Shipibo in Yarinacocha, Peru, each February?
1) Minimum violence to curtail harmless protest or immature pranks, or 2) maximum violence (eye gouging, thuggish punching long after the event) to dissuade future transgressors?
"He took 8 Tour stages wins, a UK record for 34 years, until Mark Cavendish beat it in 2009" @mrendell looks back on the life of Barry Hoban, who died in the 20th of April 2025, at the age of 85.
#ATENCIÓN | “No debe salir una sola tonelada de carbón a Israel de Colombia”. El presidente Petro (@petrogustavo) pidió al pueblo suizo y de La Guajira que “bloquee Glencore”. También dijo que está dispuesto a cambiar unilateralmente el contrato de concesión.
Italian decision against oil company ENI. greenpeace.org/international/…
Pueblo Kichwa en Resistencia...No a las falsas soluciones climáticas 💚💙💪🏾
"The riders themselves were told to be on message" @mrendell on the Peruvian Amazon communities affected by TotalEnergies. ITV respects TotalEnergies' right to reply.
Qatar confirms that it aims to host the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Authoritarian petrostates hosting the world's crowning sporting events is becoming sadly normalised. 🧵 theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul…
Such an important feature on TotalEnergies by @itvcycling and @mrendell on the Tour de France rest day programme this evening. In support: a repost of this drawing.
Thanks to everyone who has thought kind thoughts about my small contribution to the Tour coverage over the years. My most important item since my first Tour in 1997 is in tomorrow night’s rest day programme (8pm, ITV4). Tune in, if you can.
Wirral-based 19 year old Ruben Corlett takes his first win in France. Great stuff!
“By [saving other species from ourselves,] we give our descendants the chance to ridicule our harebrained theories and keep observing, keep learning, and keep expanding their imaginations to encompass the truths of the living world.” —@nijhuism go.nybooks.com/4nPIGNj
Thanks to everyone who has thought kind thoughts about my small contribution to the Tour coverage over the years. My most important item since my first Tour in 1997 is in tomorrow night’s rest day programme (8pm, ITV4). Tune in, if you can.
🎥 @mrendell tells the story of Albert Bourlon, a breakaway artist in life and in racing
🚨🇨🇴 Un estudio de la Defensoría del Pueblo y la Naturaleza revela que la deforestación golpea fuertemente al departamento del Guaviare, en la Amazonía colombiana. ¿Qué hay detrás de este desbosque? tinyurl.com/4prc7r7b
🇫🇷 #TDF2025 Yesterday, just before the summit of the Tourmalet, Julian Alaphilippe grabbed a cardboard sign from a fan. He tucked it under his jersey to keep warm on the descent. Later, he apologized to the woman. The sign read: “Wout doesn’t know it yet, but we’re getting…
🎥 @mrendell looks into the origins of the polka dot jersey design, which is 50 years old this year ⚪️🔴🏇
The Tour de France, cycling's shop window, under the sway of fossil fuels. lemonde.fr/sport/article/…
The protestor at the finish of Stage 11 of #TDF2025 was wearing a shirt with the message: ‘Israel out of the Tour’. 📸 Dario Belingheri/Getty Images