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Emmy-Winning Actor Ben Stiller Cheers On 38-Year-Old Pro Cyclist to Postpone Retirement for World Record Attempt

Actor Ben Stiller attends the 75th Annual Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. February 18, 2023. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Stars are indeed just like us – or so it may seem when they are part of a passionate fanbase. Despite the fame and fortune of the big leagues, it is hard not to fall for the thrill and adrenaline that only sports can provide. While we have seen numerous famous personalities gush over sports teams or stars, there’s always a new revelation on the horizon. Today’s revelation comes from ‘Night At The Museum’ star Ben Stiller, who has long been a passionate cycling fan.

However, even Stiller, a multi-millionaire movie star, was reduced to feeling enthused like a dew-eyed fan at exciting cycling updates. He showed this enthusiasm to the news that Mark Cavendish will indeed ride one more season with Astana in 2024.

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Ben Stiller is a bonafide star. He plays lead roles in big movies and is very good at doing so. Still, his enthusiasm in anticipation of Mark Cavendish’s next performance was transparently pure to witness. Every cycling fan has their eyes peeled over Cavendish potentially breaking the record for most Tour de France stage wins, and Stiller is no different. His enthusiasm was palpable in his recent tweet , reading ‘This is exciting news,’ to a tweet confirming Mark Cavendish’s return to Astana Qazaqstan for one more year.

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The record Cavendish is chasing belongs to one Eddy Merckx, who set it in 1969. Mark Cavendish was already on the verge of setting a new record if not for a crash on stage 8 in 2023. However, while the crash seemingly put an end to Cavendish’s career initially, the 38-year-old is set to return for at least another year. No wonder, Stiller, and every other cycling fan, is waiting with bated breath to see what happens next.

This is exciting news. https://t.co/FPZYIEK0Vw — Ben Stiller (@BenStiller) September 26, 2023

Still has also proven to be a big Geraint Thomas fan. From his cycling to his dad jokes on Twitter, the actor is absolutely floored by the Welsh Tour de France winner. In fact, Stiller replied to one Thomas joke on Twitter, saying, “Not afraid to do edgy material. All the more reason to be a fan.”

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Ben Stiller is absolutely eager for Mark Cavendish to un-retire

The a-lister continues to be the ultimate cycling superfan.

Actor and filmmaker Ben Stiller has a genuine passion for cycling. His Twitter timeline is filled with updates on major races, and he simply can’t get enough of the sport. Stiller was fervently cheering for Mark Cavendish to surpass the all-time stage record he currently shares with Eddy Merckx at the Tour de France. Currently, both the Manx Missile and the Belgian legend have 34 stage wins to their name.

The promising Giro

During the Giro, Cavendish announced that 2023 would be his final season, which meant he had one last chance to break the record. After a long professional career that started 2006, he expressed his desire for a change, wanting to spend more time with his wife, Peta, and their three children. He did, however, manage to secure a remarkable stage win on the final day of the Italian Grand Tour, offering hope for the Tour de France.

Watching Mark Cavendish say goodbye to his Astana Qazaqstan teammates is heartbreaking

But, as is often the case with grand plans, things took an unexpected turn. Cavendish had a crash during the eighth stage, resulting in a broken collarbone and forced withdrawal from the competition. Following surgery, it seemed that his illustrious career was on the verge of conclusion.

One last season?

Numerous sources, including AD , have reported a change in the course of events. According to the Dutch site, Astana team boss Alexandre Vinokourov has successfully persuaded the 38-year-old Cavendish to extend his career for another year. This gives him one more opportunity to chase the record.

When British magazine Cycling Weekly shared this news, Stiller couldn’t contain his excitement, expressing his enthusiasm in a quote-tweet.

This is exciting news. https://t.co/FPZYIEK0Vw — Ben Stiller (@BenStiller) September 26, 2023

Stiller frequently posts about professional cycling and was a dedicated follower and admirer of Sepp Kuss’s victory at the Vuelta.

🙌🙌 @seppkuss 🇺🇸🙌🙌 #Vuelta https://t.co/jR3FXH4c0t — Ben Stiller (@BenStiller) September 16, 2023

He’s even an avid listener of Geraint Thomas’s podcast, Watts Occurring .

This is really interesting in real time to hear @GeraintThomas86 and @LukeRowe1990 talk about all the #Vuelta drama. https://t.co/lAatFXq3qL — Ben Stiller (@BenStiller) September 16, 2023

With hope in his heart, Stiller eagerly anticipates Cavendish achieving that elusive stage win, because like all of us, he’s a devoted fan of the Astana rider and wants to witness history being made.

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The Ben Stiller & Lance Affair From 2009  (as told by Alex Wassmann) While traipsing through the Village Depart on day two of the Tour, I ran into Alex Wassmann who is Sram’s top man when it comes to maintaining all of Lance’s drivetrain needs. As we exchanged banter about the various goings on with the race, he mentioned that the actor Ben Stiller had visited the Radio Shack team bus in Rotterdam. He also alluded to there not being any repeat of the Stiller nightmare that the team endured at last year’s Tour at the Team Time Trial in Montpellier.

“When Ben showed up last year he jumped on Lance’s bike and just started drilling the shifters and some of us were just standing there somewhat horror stricken. The bike was perfectly prepped, Lance was getting ready to do his warm-up and the clock was already ticking towards the team’s start. Somebody finally got Stiller off the bike and when Lance got on it it started making a weird noise. We couldn’t figure it out so we had Lance get off the bike. He went into the motor home and we adjusted everything and had Lance come back out. When he started pedaling it was still making the noise and at that point we started getting freaked out. We swapped the bottom bracket and crank out in full NASCAR mode. Lance got off the bike again and while he was inside I laid down on the ground while someone pedaled the bike and I noticed that the outer link on one of the chain links was tweaked out and about to break. We swapped the chain and got it running properly. When I went into the team bus Lance just looked at me somewhat nervously and asked what was up with his bike. ‘Nothing,’ I said, ‘it’s fine.

With not a lot of time to spare, actually, only about five minutes before the start,  Lance got on the bike and pedaled off. When the team went out and won the race, well, that was when we all breathed a lot easier.’

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Ben Stiller Excited for Mark Cavendish’s Tour de France Record Attempt

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• Ben Stiller expresses excitement for Mark Cavendish attempting to surpass Eddy Merckx's Tour de France record
• Cycling fans eagerly rooting for Cavendish's success
• Stiller's previous involvement and interest in cycling

Ben Stiller expressed excitement over reports that Mark Cavendish will continue riding with Astana in 2024. Cavendish needs just one more Tour de France stage win to surpass Eddy Merckx’s record from 1969. Despite a crash ending his 2023 season, signs point to the 38-year-old postponing retirement. Stiller, known for his role in ‘Zoolander,’ is a cycling fan and has shown support for Welsh Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas in the past. As fans eagerly await confirmation from Stiller, they continue to cheer for Cavendish in his quest for history.

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The 2005 comedy "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story," serves up a lot of laughs from a variety of hilarious characters and is among the best sports comedy movies of all time . When slacker Peter Lafleur (Vince Vaughn), owner of the rundown Average Joe's gym, falls behind in his mortgage, he faces foreclosure, much to the delight of rival White Goodman (Ben Stiller). White, whose massive fitness center Globo Gym needs land for a new parking garage, is looking at the Average Joe's property the way a hungry wolf looks at a calf that's wandered away from the herd. As Peter tries to sort out his company's finances with the bank's lawyer, Kate Veatch (Christine Taylor) , Average Joe's member Gordon Pibb (Stephen Root) has the crazy idea to form a team and enter the upcoming national dodgeball tournament, which offers $50,000 for the winning team — the exact sum Peter needs to stay afloat.

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The night before the final, with the Average Joe's team set to face Globo Gym for the championship, Peter gets an unexpected visit from his nemesis, White. Rather than leaving things to chance, White offers to buy Average Joe's from Peter for the tidy sum of $100,000. Peter, disheartened over Patches' death earlier in the film, accepts the deal and cuts and runs, leaving without telling anyone on his team. As fate would have it, he runs into seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong in the airport and learns the cycling champion is a fan who's been watching the tournament. When Peter tells a confused Lance he's quit the tournament, he responds that he, too, was once thinking of quitting: when he was diagnosed with brain, lung, and testicular cancer. "Well, I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life," Lance says, before telling Peter he's sure his decision won't haunt him forever.

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The Hollywood star said he was lucky to have met Sherwen

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Hollywood star Ben Stiller has paid tribute to retired racer and broadcaster Paul Sherwen who died last weekend.

Sherwen died at home in Uganda at the age of 62, sparking an enormous outpouring of grief in the cycling world.

Long-time friend Phil Liggett paid touching tribute, along with current Tour de France commentator David Millar, Chris Froome and other pros, friends, fans and colleagues.

The latest name to share kind words about Sherwen, who commentated on 33 editions of the Tour de France alongside Liggett, is Zoolander star Stiller.

On Wednesday, Stiller said on Twitter: “I am so shocked and saddened at the loss of Paul Sherwen.

“He was a kind and elegant man, who was so good at what he did.

"I feel lucky to have met him.

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“I’m sending Paul’s family love and to you Phil Liggett.

“You and him are the Tour for so many of us.”

>>> Broadcaster Phil Liggett says death of close friend Paul Sherwen ‘hard to believe’

Stiller is a keen cycling follower – he was once filmed riding Lance Armstrong’s time trial bike on a turbo trainer at the Tour de France in 2009.

Sherwen became a household name in cycling circles commentating on the Tour along with close friend Liggett.

He rode professionally from 1978 to 1987, racing in seven Tours de France and winning two national titles.

>>> ‘I’ll remember Paul for many things – a pioneering professional cyclist, a great TV commentator, but most of all as a friend’

After retirement he commentated on the Tour de France for Channel 4, before moving to NBC Sports in America and SBS in Australia.

Sherwen is believed to have died from heart failure, according to his family following the post-mortem examination.

His death prompted a huge outpouring of grief from the cycling world. The Hollywood star said he was lucky to have met Sherwen

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"This is exciting news" - Hollywood's Ben Stiller delighted to hear Mark Cavendish is set to postpone retirement

World famous Hollywood actor Ben Stiller, has long been a vocal and very public supporter of cycling and he continues to share his thoughts on the sport to his 5.5 million followers on X.

With more and more news surrounding Mark Cavendish seemingly hinting to an inevitable return for 2024, Stiller (famous for movies such as Tropic Thunder, Zoolander, Night at the Museum and more) took to to X (formerly Twitter) to express his excitement.

Mark Cavendish almost certain to return in 2024 for one final season

"This is exciting news," writes Stiller in response to an article regarding Cavendish's likely postponing of his retirement.

After crashing out of what was thought to be the final Tour de France of his career, the 'Manx Missile' now looks set to have one last crack at getting that historic 35th Tour de France stage win and take his place at the top of the list ahead of the great Eddy Merckx. Love him or hate him, it sure is 'exciting news' that Cavendish has one last chance to make history!

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Ben Stiller vs. Kelly Oubre is the random beef the NBA playoffs needs

Kelly Oubre took a shot at celebrity Knicks fans and now he’s beefing with Ben Stiller

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The NBA playoffs have a new beef. On one side, we have someone so ridiculously photogenic that they could have, years ago, convincingly played a male model. On the other we have Ben Stiller, because that’s right, he’s now feuding with Kelly Oubre as the latter’s Sixers get set to take on Stiller’s Knicks in the first round.

How did this start? With a recent clip of a post-practice interview Oubre did with the media, of course, where he praised Knicks fans but then endeared himself to the Philly faithful by going full heel and taking a potshot at New York’s propensity to give complimentary tickets to celebrities in order to add to the allure of the so-called Mecca of Basketball:

Kelly Oubre is excited for the opportunity to play at Madison Square Garden, praising the fans’ appreciation of basketball culture. Also: “They’re going to give celebrities those $100,000 free tickets just to be there and not care about the game” pic.twitter.com/160CdoD86u — PHLY Sixers (@PHLY_Sixers) April 19, 2024

When broadcast journalist Alan Hahn asked Stiller , potentially the most passionate celebrity Knicks fan online — seriously, go look at his Twitter feed , he is as obsessed as we all are with our favorite teams — to respond in character as the villain he played in “Dodgeball”, White Goodman, Stiller accepted the challenge ahead of Game 1:

Oh I think I care a lot more than you think that you thought I cared… Kelly Who-bre? #KNICKS #PURPLECOBRAS https://t.co/ZnnbvIhphZ — Ben Stiller (@BenStiller) April 20, 2024

That nickname is going to go triple-platinum the first time Oubre shoots below 30% from the field in this series, but Oubre’s response might have been even better when hero/journalist Taryn Hatcher asked him if he saw Stiller’s tweet:

Asked Kelly if saw that Ben Stiller tweeted about him. Kelly’s response: “Yea I saw that. But I’m Peter LaFleur, just an Average Joe. We got this, you already know.” https://t.co/tFewHFQB1s pic.twitter.com/yQU1RQxfny — Taryn Hatcher (@TarynNBCS) April 20, 2024

And Stiller may want to be careful here. Oubre has shown throughout his career that he is particularly willing to engage when it comes to getting into various beefs. Most recently, the Sixers starter made headlines when he was fined $50,000 for calling an entire officiating crew’s set of bloodlines b---hes , but he also can be more subtle. In 2018, for example, he untied Rodney Hood’s shoes in the middle of a game.

What I’m saying is that Stiller should be warned: If Kelly comes up to you and tries to make nice and joke around before the game... just check your shoes after to make sure you don’t trip.

We’ll see if this beef escalates when the Sixers take on the Knicks in Madison Square Garden on Saturday at 6 p.m. ET, but even if it doesn’t, I hope more celebrities follow in Stiller’s example and start feuds with random role players.

Can we get lifelong Lakers courtside fan Dyan Cannon to tell Michael Porter Jr. his podcast sucks? Can the Timberwolves unban ARod from their arena so he can start a fight with Bol Bol? Do the Orlando Magic have any celebrity fans who can call Dean Wade a coward for the Cavs ducking their way into the fourth seed ?

The possibilities are endless, and I hope Stiller just started a trend we all get to enjoy.

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