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As I used to say, road cycling history is not just a collection of names, dates, and results. There are stories behind them, and real human emotions. Not just for the participants themselves, but for everyone reading about their struggles, sacrificies, failures, and triumphs.

That is the reason why we like consuming stories (either real or fictional ones), because we are seeking the emotional connection.

Because we want to be invested in a story emotionally.

But sharing stories in the digital world is becoming more and more complicated.

People tend to visit websites directly less and less often.

Social media, once a useful tool helping readers to find someone's website is functioning rather as a gatekeeper nowadays. The devastating dominance of rage-baiting marketing and the desperate chasing of algorithm destroy all the possibilities of real human connection either to the desired stories or, eventually, to the storytellers themselves.

But luckily, there are other ways to find more human connection. Methods give the freedom to share and consume stories in a slower, deeper, more complex, or, I should say, a more intimate way, even when everything around relentlestly try to force us to a more shallow and superficial way of living.

Sing up to my Road Cycling History newsletter and join me on a journey of a more wholesome way of connecting to the legendary great (or sometimes lesser-known) stories of this beatifully unique sport.