James Spragg
Sports scientist, coach, mountain and coffee enthusiast
- Reposted by James SpraggIt’s crazy that 100% of the FIFA peace prize winners attacked another country less than one month after winning the prize. Such bad luck for FIFA who had thought long and hard about who should win this prestigious award.
- Reposted by James Spragg...BTW the pig's name is Herta, which it shares with a popular French brand found in supermarkets 🐷 🥓
- Reposted by James SpraggTwo page interview with Mathys Rondel (Tudor) in L'Equipe after a promising first full season. He's moved to the Pyrenees with his family (sister Léa is pro too) to find better training roads. They've renovated a house where he has a Thibaut Pinot-style animal collection with rabbits, a pet pig...
- After 2 weeks away on training camp It’s back to parenting with a bang - 5am wake up call! Please send coffee
- Odd to see Norris go onto hards
- Tsunoda’s ‘defending’ against Norris was laughable both for its blatancy in rule breaking and its ineffectiveness
- Piastri making Norris’ life hard!
- First World Cup skimo of the season! 2nd place for Germany over the line but they received a 30s penalty and got regulated to 4th 😞
- It must be some kind of career milestone in professional cycling when agents start adding you on LinkedIn
- Giro organisers again doing their best to make the stage 20 to 21 transfer as hard as long as possible! Got to Rome at 2:30am last year 🙈
- Zurich to Innsbruck has to be one of the best train journeys in the world!
- Fair play to the ABC journalist questioning the Saudi Crown Prince
- no one really acknowledges just how good non alcoholic beer is nowadays!
- got stung by a bee today - in November!
- It’s a complex thing W’ : link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Walked past the local high school yesterday. Not a single normal bike outside - only e-bikes! 100% understandable in a valley that goes from 600m straight up to 2000m but still interesting to see!
- I do quite enjoy the irony that the vast majority of people who talk about the dunning-kruger effect do so from mount stupid
- Reposted by James SpraggVital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
- I hate the clocks going back more than ever…both my kids have woken up at 5:30 every day this week
- Stewards in Mexico…
- One phrase that bugs me way more than it should is ‘my PhD student’ or ‘my athlete’ As a coach, supervisor or manager your job is to support people; not to own them or their achievements
- Everywhere I have been today in Germany only has baby changing in the women’s toilets - an entire country stuck in the 1950s
- It’s really time to start using video drones to capture bike races
- Reposted by James SpraggFor anyone following the life of Little Léon the Tro Bro piglet, here he is at 5 months 😍 Really hope Valentin can win him a little brother next year 🥺 From instagram
- Bronson’s accent in ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ makes it unwatchable
- The best thing about data is it doesn’t give care about your opinion Consequently - this is also why people don’t like data
