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A murder roils the cycling world: In gravel racing—the sport’s hottest category—the killing has exposed a lot of dirt
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- Title
- A Murder Roils the Cycling World
- Authors
- The New Yorker
- Published
- Nov 7 2022
- Word count
- 8225 words
Cycling sure has its fair share of douchebags.
Also, didn't have "Chris Tolley interviewed for a New Yorker article" on my bingo card this year.
I followed this when it happened because I'm pretty interested in American crit cycling and am familiar with some of the more prominent figures. I guess I still have some difficulty in bridging the story from this popular athlete (Colin Strickland) to his jealous ex-girlfriend (Armstrong). To me, this article is far less about Moriah Wilson than it is about how cycling produces (or attracts?) asshole dudes with huge egos. Like, this article is 8k+ words and it's not really about this awful tragedy so much as it is about Strickland and his sphere of influence. I guess I just have mixed feelings about it. Is it trying to implicate Strickland? Not really, I guess? Is it trying to paint him in some poor light? Maybe moreso? And I guess it also kind of paints some others in the sport the same way?