There are rumors in the peloton about what's really going on between those rivals who quote unquote don't speak when Mathieu picks Wout for every winners room and vice versa. In truth Wout is the one person who does not want to talk or do anything that prevents Mathieu from getting his decompress insta reel phone time. Jasper sneaks in to see what's going on and just sees them sitting on opposite sides of the room. Wout's calling his wife and kids and Mathieu's in the adult version of the cocomelon zone. After the hour they shake hands and look forward to doing it again.

it’s one way mate 😐

Sorry, sorry, but manipulative hurt/comfort is fucking cocaine to me. The predatory aspect of it. The vulnerability—500% better if the hurt party knows they're being manipulated and is past the point of caring. The juxtaposition of sweet and sharp flavours. Barkbarkbark

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mutual 1: need him carnally *dutch cyclist making a latte*

mutual 2: [insane webweave about religious suffering and devotion to the bike]

mutual 3: do you guys ever think about wout van aert and mathieu van der poel

mutual 4: need him carnally *38 year old brit on the brink of retirement*

mutual 5: guys you don’t understand,,, the Narratives *photo of two domestiques at the 1982 tour de france*

mutual 6: tadej pogacar is the perfect density one bite would fix me just one

mutual 7: save me kate wagner kate wagner save me

mutual 8: i could recognise him by thighs alone

mutual 9: [ten photosets of the same cyclocross race, all reblogged in a row]

mutual 10: need him carnally *climber who looks like a kicked puppy*

mutual 11: [ten photosets of the 1948 tour de france winner, all reblogged in a row]

mutual 12: do you think they ever explored each other’s bodies *sprinter and leadout man*

Pauline: I think that Lotte is extremely afraid of Marianne

Some very fun insights by Pauline in an interview to Eurosport

what if you were a 1.95m pro cyclist and also babygirl

📸 alan.bucar

above all, sports fandom is about being DELUSIONAL and a HYPOCRITE and if you forget these tenets you’ve lost the plot

proof of the woshy first roubaix finish for the woshheads

these were genuine quickstep promoshots. unserious team

📸: alanmilavec

Things I have translated where Mads talks about Mathieu:

bolding mine. for @mundanememory and @bieles2017 so we can have a socratic seminar on matjemads.

From the autobiography - what happened at the Men’s Junior race in the 2013 World Championships where he finished second after Mathieu:

”At the finish line I was only 3 damn seconds behind and had to make do with a silver medal. It was, after all, a good result – almost a miracle keeping in mind my situation 10km from the finish – but it was not what I had come for, and I was bitter for a while. I had beaten him many times and had the best luck in most of our duels. On the other hand, there’s no shame in losing to van der Poel. He is an insanely good bike rider and was already double junior world champion in cross at the tame. After the Worlds race, we got drunk as shit at a party. Van der Poel stole a parasol somewhere and ran around with that and a lit candle. He poured wax over Jonas Gregard who stood there and yelled ’It’s snowing, it’s snowing!”

The excerpt is accompanied by this picture where the text identifies Mathieu as "min evige plageånd" - basically the guy who's always bothering him and being a nuisance. If I have shippy goggles on, I can also mention it's specifically "my eternally bothering guy".