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Good money, no team tactics and cute dogs: the rise of pro cycling freelancers

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36 points PaulHoule | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 02:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.331s | source
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jsnell ◴[22 Oct 24 04:11 UTC] No.41911111[source]▶
Does anyone follow gravel racing? If I wanted to watch a couple of past races (ideally on YouTube) to see if it's for me, is there anything you'd recommend?

For context, I'd thought I wouldn't like pro cycling as a spectator sport, since my exposure to it was just from Tour de France and track cycling both of which I find somewhat ridiculous for different reasons. But I was totally riveted by the road races at the Olympics this year.

(Aside: What's up with the "cute dogs" in the title? The article body text has nothing to say about dogs.)

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1. wink ◴[22 Oct 24 09:23 UTC] No.41912597[source]▶
Not explicitly, I subscribe to a couple people who do cycling and bikepacking related videos, and some of them also race gravel or MTB.

But for some reason (and maybe I'm lying to myself), they in general don't have a huge audience, so it feels less than following pro sports and more "following this rando on youtube, but the rando happens to have a couple thousand viewers and also does pro/amateur sports".