Tom Davidson

Senior journalist @cyclingweekly / host @ttpdcst 🚴 / MA graduate @cityjournalism

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

Tadej Pogačar’s 43km solo win on stage six was his longest ever at the Tour de France. The two minutes and 38 seconds he won by was his biggest single-day margin. Entire Tours have been decided by less.

Reaction from on the ground below

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[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

The fire brigade is hosing down fans, riders are drinking 10 bottles a day, and yesterday I saw Jasper Stuyven eat a fruit pastille lolly as if it were a chicken drumstick

Is the Tour de France now a race of who melts the slowest?

https://t.co/Z4u3tj90kT

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

The crêperie in Les Angles had prepared extra batter to feed the crowds expected for today’s Tour de France finish. Then wildfires tore through the region, and the race urged fans not to come.

Here’s what an eerily quiet stage looked like on the ground

https://t.co/VgrOoflBc1

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

Del Toro fever has struck the Tour de France.

I spent the day speaking to Mexican fans at the finish in Barcelona. One couple spent €2,500 on flights from Mexico to cheer on Del Toro - it’s their first time in Europe. What a day for them.

https://t.co/HofyCbC9tu

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

Paul Seixas, the youngest Tour de France debutant since 1937, is carrying the hopes of a nation. But who is he? And how will he handle the pressure?

I profiled the 19-year-old for @cyclingweekly magazine - read for free online now

https://t.co/HYJzoAeuKE

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

We still do this at @cyclingweekly! Here’s my entry for this year:

1. Pogačar
2. Vingegaard
3. Del Toro
4. Lipowitz
5. Ayuso
6. Seixas
7. Halland Johannessen
8. Evenepoel
9. Pidcock
10. Vauquelin

[Simon Warren @100Climbs]

When I worked at Cycling Weekly back in the 90's we always had to pin our @LeTour Top Ten on the wall for everyone to see...

1. Pogačar
2. del Toro
3. Vingegaard
4. Seixas
5. Lipowitz
6. Evenepoel
7. Piganzoli
8. Pidcock
9. Ayuso
10. Vauquelin

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

I’m out in Barcelona for my fourth Tour de France with Cycling Weekly.

Always grateful to be here, and excited to see what this edition throws at us. One sleep until the TTT 👀

[Cycling Weekly @cyclingweekly]

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[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

Tadej Pogačar says comparisons between him and Eddy Merckx are “complete nonsense”. So forgive me for drawing this parallel: just before Merckx won his fifth Tour de France in 1974, he made his debut at the Tour de Suisse and topped the GC

https://t.co/7P38esJEMg

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

Katie Archibald has today announced her retirement from cycling.

A titan on and off the bike, she leaves behind a legacy as one of the greatest track cyclists in history

https://t.co/QQA2omJ7uD

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

Born out of a YouTube experiment, @rockets_cycling have now blasted into the high-stakes world of Grand Tour racing.

I spoke to Bas Tietema, Dylan Groenewegen and Tomáš Kopecký about the team’s rise 👇

https://t.co/y14wiOrNL3

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

I did a little grassroots racing investigation for the mag. Full article free to read online now

https://t.co/s60zInK4qU

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

Second again, Tadej Pogačar is still determined to win his missing Monument

My dispatch from the velodrome yesterday: https://t.co/PBXCiQrFfc

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

@WestemeyerSusan It pulls automatically from the website. Admittedly not always the clearest

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

This Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix Femmes will be broadcast only after the men’s race has finished.

As such, fans will only see nine of the 20 cobbled sectors / the last 50km (of 143km)

[Cycling Weekly @cyclingweekly]

Less than an hour and a half of women’s race to be shown on TV this Sunday https://t.co/KT2Ty0u7lu

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

@lukascph You know me, Lukas. Always asking the important questions

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

For anyone wondering if Carys Lloyd got her race-winning LEGO after #RondevanBrugge yesterday…

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

Read the full interview: https://t.co/dFMceITuNQ

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

@lukascph Thanks, Lukas. He certainly did.

[Tom Davidson @t_davidson]

Oskar Svendsen set a VO2 Max record, won a world title, and then disappeared from cycling in 2014, aged 20

I caught up with him to find out what he’s been up to since (spoiler: he now works for a company that makes indoor herb gardens)

https://t.co/tGa4kAhuPI