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She is not swinging and missing at journalistically/objectively reporting on pro cycling; she is deliberately introducing a different, New Journalism style to the sport.
I expect she would relish a doping revelation on Rog or Pog as she regularly alludes to the dark side of cycling – it would allow her to bring a heightened moral consequence into her narrative, or something.
Her writing has shaped, to some degree, how I think about Rog, Pog, et al. Not what I think about their strategic moves within races, but how I imagine them to be as complex people. She develops characters and stories within the sport when most journalism is reporting on results. It’s great stuff. Need more like her.
Everyone should stop trashing Wagner and begin rehearsing their anti-gravel, gatekeepery nonsense. Some big
fondosraces coming up!