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Today I live painted the LIVE studio coverage of the Giro D’italia! 🇮🇹
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After stage eight of his Giro d’Italia debut in 2000, Matt Stephens was a broken man.
“Today was the longest stage of the race and so far, for me, the hardest,” wrote the Brit in a diary he kept for that year’s Giro edition of Cycle Sport magazine. “We ended up doing 270 kilometres. Back at the hotel I sat in my kit for half an hour, too shagged to get changed, eating fruit salad and muesli and all the sweet contents in my room’s mini bar.”
It was a sorry sight, made sorrier by the fact that Stephens, 30 years old at the time, still had 13 stages left of his three-week date with pain. A knee injury following a heavy crash on the second day had left him limping around Italy, doing what he could to hang on for his Linda McCartney teammates until he was forced to abandon after Stage 16.
The Giro had well and truly chewed him up and spat him out. But despite his suffering, Stephens would be back for more – albeit in a very different form.
Since his retirement from professional racing in 2011, the voice of Matt Stephens has become one of cycling’s most familiar sounds. As this year's Italian Grand Tour gets underway, the broadcaster and commentator speaks to Rouleur about why the race that once broke him might just be his favourite of the lot. Read more via the link in bio 🔗
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This year, Matt Stephens is more nomadic than ever, as he presents his Sigma Sports Unplugged Rest Day Reflections podcast mini series from the TNT Sports / HBO Max Studio, in-store at Sigma Sports, and from the Giro d’Italia itself!
In this episode, Matt looks back at stages 1-3 of the 2026 Giro d’Italia as it kicked off in Bulgaria. Exciting finishes, an almost untimely end for a Stockley Park duck, and of course those two horror crashes in stages 1 and 2 all feature.
With cameos from Adam Blythe and Orla Chennoui, there are plenty of laughs along the way too. Follow the link in our bio to listen to the episode now.
‘Oversize Windowsill Pilates / Twirl Refusal.’
In this diptych we see a man in a hotel room in Chiswick situated on an oversized windowsill adopting two distinctly different physical postures.
Image 1 sees the man seemingly performing a Pilates / Kung Fu manoeuvre last photographed in Finland, 1978 on the set of the popular soap opera Elämänmeno, by camera operator Matti Korhonen.
Image 2 sees the same man sat cross legged, his back turned to an unopened bag of ‘Twirl Bites’ purchased from the Co-Op the same day, possibly in an act of confection based defiance.
Opposing creative forces bind the images, in essence the onlooker is witness to a fusion of polarity. The fabric of reason rigorously examined with a silent chocolate observer.
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