O, Valencia!
Americans win two stages and GC at Spanish stage race! USA! USA! USA!
Just a heads-up, this photo is not from the Volta a Comunitat Valenciana, but from Brandon McNulty’s stage in at Paris-Nice in 2022. UAE has white sleeves now, and McNulty has a mustache.
Here’s Mac Daddy on Saturday, looking like he’s just run from Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge to deliver the news to General Meade that the rebel assault has been repulsed, but Colonel Vincent has been mortally wounded.
This edition of the newsletter was originally supposed to be about the accursed Peter Thiel and his all-PED Olympics. Cycling has a rich and interesting history with performance-enhancing drugs, so I was going to tell a couple body horror stories and talk about the pernicious philosophical1 underpinnings of the technolibertarian transhumanist movement.
But then something wonderful happened. America happened.