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Padded bra concerns brings scrutiny at Tour de FranceRiders at the Tour de France Femmes will be subject to extra clothing checks before Tuesday's stage following claims some could be using extra padding in their bras to seek an aerodynamic advantage.www.rte.ie

This might tickle you if you're Irish, or know Mayo, but after @clodaghfinn.bsky.social's article at the weekend about Millie Robinson 🇮🇪 I went looking for the farm she grew up on. It's a couple of fields in the left of the red-bounded area here, about 4 kms south of Killala. #TdFF2026 #SpeirGorm

1923. The Fête des Caf' Conc' at the Buffalo. Stars of stage and screen gathered for a day's fun and games.

Seriously? A hero right out of the movies? Like Jared Leto?

Glen Hansard Was a Hero Right Out of the MoviesThe late musician didn't just make films — he lived as cinema.www.hollywoodreporter.com

Hello boys! This may become my favourite cycling scandal of all time! Wonderbra-gate! 😲 The proposed solution ...I think only a man could imagine rhe one poposed here... #TdFF2026

With the music charts dead - seriously, have *you* heard Rein Me In? Me neither! - film charts are filling the gap. But film math is magical. Is Spidey 41 really recording the second biggest opening weekend ever?

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Soars to $355M for Second-Biggest Opening Weekend EverTom Holland and his friends scored the highest-grossing debut in Sony's history and nearly swung past 2019's 'Avengers: Endgame' for the top domestic launch of all time.www.hollywoodreporter.com

There ought to be a rule that says two films can't have the same title, especially when the two films are set in the same milieu. Take Kenneth Mercken's 2018 film The Racer and Kieron Walsh's 2020 film The Racer.

Someone DMed me this and I have to confess, the person who wrote it seems to be spending far more time thinking about me than I do about them. But I might just change my profile to read "the biggest c*&% who has ever written anything about cycling".

The Tour de France Femmes rolls off today + @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social has the story of Mayo's Millie Robinson 🇮🇪, 'The Greatest Woman Cyclist of Them All', who won a precursor of today's #TdFF2026, 1955's Tour Féminin aka 'the First Tour de France Femmes'. #SpeirGorm

Clodagh Finn: The Mayo woman who won the first Tour de France for womenThe memory of the last time the Sam Maguire went west, 75 years ago, is etched in local consciousness, yet a remarkable international win by a Ballina cyclist just a few years later remains little-kno...www.irishexaminer.com

WW1 / Ernest Hemingway folk: Michael Winterbottom's long-gestating adaptation of A Farewell to Arms (announced in 2023), with Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games) as Hemingway surrogate Frederic Henry, looks to have moved out of development hell + will start shooting in - of all places! - Italy in January.

Michael Winterbottom's Hemingway Adaptation 'A Farewell to Arms' Targets Italy Shoot with Tom Blyth StarringOne of literature's most enduring war romances is heading to the screen, and the production infrastructure is beginning to take shape. Michael Winterbottom's...www.productionlist.com

Seriously? I'm expected to post on Youtube and Reddit in order to make my website visible? I'd rather keep it as a private little secret shared among the 17 people who currently access it.

Grab the popcorn, Joyce Carol Oates has biffed Emily Wilson with the MAGA stick... "Rather than disagreeing with interpretations of Homer in a collegial manner, this person, who has benefited enormously from Nolan’s film, speaks in the crude language of MAGA folks"

Here's an interesting one: who's the Black cyclist photobombing Antonin Magne at the Critérium des As? The Dilecta jersey puts him as one of Pélissier's 12-strong pacing team. Frustratingly, L'Auto only had the names of 11 of them. Could be Ali Neffati, he would have been in his early 30s then.

Couple of peeps got interested in this pic. Francis Pélissier with a track bike. But the trees and the surface don't look like no velodrome. It wasn't. This is the road circuit in Longchamp. Pélissier was taking part in the Critérium des As in September 1927. (As = Aces)

New rule: All living, retired Tour de France winners should be gagged throughout the month of July. Or maybe round them up and intern them on the Isle of Wight for the month and ban them from talking about cycling.

If you're in the UK or Ireland, a brief Now streaming sub might be worth the money if you're suffering Mads Withdrawal Syndrome. www.nowtv.com/watch/asset/... Four 44 min episodes covering Pedersen's 2024 Classics season and into the Tour.A Belgian Eurosport production.

The Race to the Sun - Paris-Nice - is finally getting an English-language biography. Due out February 2027, from the publishing house that Harry Potter built, Bloomsbury. They also publish Carlton Kirby, FWIW. #CyclingIsComingHome #TdF2027 #TheBoomIsBack

Five down. Two to go. #TdF2026

"platforms should take more responsibility to address fakes + mark AI-generated content. But all all evidence so far has shown that this is – to put it mildly – unlikely, making it all the more vital that we educate students how to identify + assess the sources for the narratives they are absorbing"

AI slop is warping our view of history – our schools need...With historically inaccurate content swamping our feeds, it is vital that we identify and assess the sources of the narratives we are absorbingobserver.co.uk

Honestly, you don't need the com, Christopher Nolan trying to do a rom would be hilarious in itself. It'd probably start at the end with the couple married and the woman dead and buried and then tell the story of the sad man's stoic struggle with grief.

Christopher Nolan Says He Would Be “Terrified” to Direct a Romantic ComedyIn a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar-winner said making 'The Odyssey' has made him interested in potentially directing a horror movie: "It very much whets my appetite for more....www.hollywoodreporter.com