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2024 Matt-isms in commentating the Tour de France for Australia

- “the bridesmaid of the general classification” about Romain Bardet

- “it’s an arm wrestle…but with quadriceps”

- Bridie (my queen) : “He’s giving big kings a better hope at riding KOM”

- “it can’t be a drought when you haven’t had anything to drink anyway”

- “2nd spore” he’s just like me for real, really tried to say spot so hard

- Bridie: Trademark Tuft

- “Riding through on the confidence carpet” i will be introducing this into my vernacular - apologies to everyone in my life

- “the chainsaws are out” about Wout Van Art’s legs

-“it’s lucky mountains don’t have strong feelings about these things”

- “zingle, the bunny hopping expert” he really does love a bunny hop and i think he’s very real for this

- “the grimace has been successful over the line”

- “purple patch of his career”

- “I can get hypnotised watching his feet”

- “Pogacar now has a carrot (Remco)”

- “good weather today for ducks at least”

- “he’s cool, calm and collected…all the c words”

- “they got more than a plus one on their invite”

- “thumbs up to the race medical, thumbs down to team mechanical”

- Brent van Moor: “I’m a terrier”

With an honourable Mention from 2023: “butter wouldn’t melt in Jia Hindley’s mouth but it will cause lactic acid in everybody else’s legs”

shit is going to go DOWN in the UAE team bus after today’s stage… they have no problem on the mountains but the second something happens on the flat pogačar is left to fend for himself 😭😭

Let's talk about Wout's son asking where Jonas is.

That was so cute.

the posts of random stuff people say but as inspirational quotes cycling version:

the tour is over and as a usa-ian i don't know how to justify my awful sleep schedule now. also what am i supposed to do without being able to wake up and watch six hours of cycling before anyone expects me to be awake???