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@andyp Kate Wagners article from today is great
*They’re very different in real life — small, elegant, decidedly fragile. It is astonishing to me that a body purposefully composed, shaped, and disciplined to do this one specific task, this sublime, arduous, brutal task, is one that is so compactly delicate. There’s something soft about them, something textural — maybe it’s the day-glow freshness of their kits and the immaculate smoothness of their skin, but I got the distinct impression that if one were to reach out and touch them the sensation would be velvety, similar to dragging a highlighter across paper. I can’t explain it — I don’t even know if it makes sense. They are so very much alive, moving and breathing and when you see them, the thought of them crashing becomes suddenly unbearable. In real life, the way they perch upon their bicycles takes on the quality of dance, light and airy, gestural. I did not realize just how much I had to see them in real life in order to understand them until I looked and they were there.
Every single one of them is beautiful.*
https://derailleur.substack.com/p/a-certain-kind-of-magic