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Jason Gagliardi is the engagement editor and a columnist at The Australian, who got his start at The Courier-Mail in Brisbane. He was based for 25 years in Hong Kong and Bangkok. His work has been featured in publications including Time, the Sunday Telegraph Magazine (UK), Colors, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, Harpers Bazaar and Roads & Kingdoms, and his travel writing won Best Asean Travel Article twice at the ASEANTA Awards.

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MAGAZINEThe Weekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM, 22 MARCH 2025. FEE MAY APPLY. Portrait of Cadel Evans 21 November, 2024. Photo: Julian Kingma for The Australian Weekend Magazine

What happened when I cycled Cadel Evans’ road race

They wanted to name roads and bridges after him but the Tour de France winner wanted a different kind of legacy. One that could give everyday blokes like me a taste of Europe’s greatest races.

Jason Gagliardi

step changeReview

Australian Ballet School 60th Anniversary Gala Performance - Four Season Picture: Supplied

Why different body types in ballet ‘are a road to freedom’

Of the recent furore in which a critic upbraided The Australian Ballet’s dancers for being too thin, star choreographer Graeme Murphy is circumspect.

Jason Gagliardi

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My life in tights

As a teen in the ’80s Jason Gagliardi performed ballet in Outback Queensland before heading, wide-eyed and innocent, to the big city. And he lived to tell the tale…

Jason Gagliardi

MAGAZINEWeekend Australian Magazine

Podcaster Patrick Broe (R) and Sepp Kuss cycling together. Photo: X

The Aussie podcaster who could transform the Tour de France

As a YouTube personality hosting the Lanterne Rouge channel, Patrick Broe turned his cycling fandom into a full-time job. Then the big boys of professional sport came knocking.

Jason Gagliardi

Battle of the sexesWeekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 05 AUG 2023. FEE MAY APPLY. 11/07/2023 Pioneering female cyclist, Margaret McLachlan tinkers with a bike rim in the garage of her Cooranbong home near Lake Macquarie. Peter Stoop/TWAM

Cycling’s unsung hero and a new question of gender

Margaret McLachlan knows all about fairness. At the height of her powers, she was banned from competition simply for being a woman.

Jason Gagliardi

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 05 FEB 2022. FEE MAY APPLY. 15/01/2022 Participants during the Guinness World Record breaking attempt at the longest static indoor spin class at Little Bay, Sydney. Source: Anthony Gordon

Hell on wheels in the world’s longest indoor spin class

Thirty hours, non-stop, on a spin bike? It’s the hardest and probably the stupidest thing I’ve ever attempted…

Jason Gagliardi

READER COMMENTSCommentary

Johannes Leak Commentry cartoon for 01-05-21, Version: Commentary Cartoon (Original), COPYRIGHT: The Australian's artists each have different copyright agreements in place regarding re-use of their work in other publications., Please seek advice from the artists themselves or the Managing Editor of The Australian regarding re-use.

‘Stop dumbing our kids down’

Readers have their say on the national curriculum quarrel, going on the defensive, and the India travel ban.

Jason Gagliardi

READER COMMENTSCommentary

BEIJING, Feb. 25, 2021 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, meets with role models in China's poverty alleviation fight and relatives of those model poverty fighters who lost their lives in the country's anti-poverty cause before a grand gathering to mark the nation's poverty alleviation accomplishments and honor model poverty fighters at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 25, 2021. (Photo by Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi via Getty Images)

‘We must wake up to China’s bluff’

Readers have their say on China’s weapon of mass distraction, losing our religion, and the toll of anonymous trolls.

Jason Gagliardi

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Dan Andrews travelled to China in December 2012, in a trip planned by his then-China adviser Mike Yang, who has been linked to several groups in the Communist Party’s United Front influence operation.

‘Massive diplomacy fail for China and Chairman Dan’

Readers have their say on belting up the Middle Kingdom, Kiwis’ failing eyesight, and much ado about Byron Baes.

Jason Gagliardi

READER COMMENTSCommentary

Ita Buttrose is missing in action over the controversial 101 Doll Squadron ABC report.

‘Are we sure Ita is still there?’

Readers have their say on ABC’s 101 Doll Squadron diss, the end of the stiff upper lip, and barristers’ big bickies.

Jason Gagliardi

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