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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”