Tuesday, 21 April 2026
Vol. XII · No. 174 · The Long-form Issue
● Now reading: The Long Quiet of a Goalkeeper
Contributor / Since 2019
Desmond Hale
Investigations, Athletics & Cycling
Desmond has broken three major doping investigations and one wonderfully strange story about a stolen bicycle in the Pyrenees. He will read one more document, always.
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Edinburgh
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Stories filed
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Selected work
The bylines
Long-formField Notes from the Tour
The Unfinished Mountain
Three weeks in a team car on the Giro, and the slow realisation that the mountain you planned for is never the mountain you climb.
Hale02 Apr 202622 min
Long-formReportage
Winter Games, Off Season
What a Norwegian biathlon team does for the six months the snow is gone, and what those six months taught me about concentration.
Hale21 Feb 202613 min