#mont-ventoux

[evenepoel]

top 5 giel lejeune flops

top 5 fave gymnasts

incredible questions thank you kip!!

giel flops

the entirely of tabor. what his flops lacked maybe in flashiness they made up for in sheer number i’m pretty sure he came off his bike like 4 times minimum during that race

going from like 4th to 13th in the last lap at worlds in 2025. also him just going absolutely flying at one point during that race

speaking of him going flying, his fall when he was leading during belgian championships this year. and also the way he just gave up midway through the sprint at the very end

flamanville where he not only got his worst result of the season (5th) but also messed things up for soren by coming off his bike right in front of him

2026 worlds miniflop when he caught the plague and then almost went slip-n-sliding but managed to save it

gymnasts

uchimura kohei (cheating generic answer. that’s the goat) 

zhang boheng 

zou jingyuan

hashimoto daiki

tomita hiroyuki (born to be a tomita fan, forced to be 7 when he retired)

bonus: kawakami shohei seeing as kohei is kind of a cheating answer.

this one was actually kind of impossible... there are so many gymnasts. and so many GOOD gymnasts. i feel like i automatically tend towards AAers when it comes to lists like these (5/6 of these guys are career AAers / former AAers lmao)... it’s so hard i could honestly do a list for every single event + AA but that would be 35 guys so maybe not.

[maillotjuane]

🗽🔍 for the ask game! from mont-ventoux

hiiiii kip thank u!! 🫶🫶

🗽Which monument was your favourite this year?

definitely san remo it is was INSANE and its always so fun to watch!!!! i will say as well though although it was probably my least favourite to watch for the racing i loveeee lombardia for the landscapes it is SO beautiful :-)

🔍 Were there any obscure races or results this year that not many people watched but you really loved? Maybe a lesser-known favourite of yours won a small race?

gonna be honest here i am a massive cycling normie so i dont know if anything i watched this year counts as a smaller race 😭😭 but im open to recommendations if u have any!!!!

tagging u so u can find this ^_^ @mont-ventoux

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[evenepoel]

💌 yay

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[evenepoel]

💌

HI KIP you match my freak to an alarming degree honestly i don't know what i'd do without you. you're funny, you have excellent taste in athletes, and you're also just a really lovely person. ALSO i love your photography i think it's SO cool. and thank you for taking the time to get pics of my cx little guys at the end of last year <3

[evenepoel]

hi it’s kip!! 😍🥇‼️ for the ask game, i hope these are ones that work for you as a new fan to answer!

hi kip @mont-ventoux !! ty for the ask 🥰

😍 did you acquire any new favourite riders this year?

answered here & here but here are a few more: paul seixas, paul magnier, giulio pellizzari, isaac del toro, mathieu van der poel… also bonus christen brothers mention because you fully converted me lmfao

🥇 what were your 5 favourite races/wins of the season?

answered here!! but special extra mentions to the david gaudu vuelta stage win and the mathieu van der poel tdf stage win because those were great. and ik i haven’t seen the giro yet but isaac pink jersey!! very important for mexico 🇲🇽 and ive seen clips from when he took it and they’re all very sweet

‼️ what was the most exciting race you watched this year?

there’s probably a really random little race that i’ve completely forgotten about that i thought was soooo exciting for no reason 😭 but off the top of my head - on the women’s side, the worlds rr was soooooo good. + on the men’s side, i really enjoyed what little we got to see of the tour de l’avenir this year bc it seemed pretty open right to the end! and i’ve mentioned it a bunch already but mont ventoux tdf was SO exciting to watch. also not road cycling but the novelty of cyclocross atm means every cx race is very exciting to me. so much happens in such a short span of time!!

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