De_Gambassi

Here is a interesting interview (yes really) from Lappartient 

https://www.letemps.ch/sport/david-lappartient-aujourdhui-un-cycliste-gagner-un-grand-tour-carburant-leau

A couple of key points:

• Believe that the peloton is much more cleaner today that it was 20 years ago
• Calls Froome "innoncent" (heum...), and says that WADA left UCI with no choice
• ASO knew that Froome was going to be cleared when they made their statement a few days before the Grand Départ (so, yeah, pure PR move by them)
• UCI spent 10 M€ on anti doping every year, that's 25% of UCI budget. According to him, some IF spent as little as 50 K€ a year.
• Very aware of the boring nature of modern day cycling (specifically modern day sky cycling): Six riders teams, ban of power meters and headsets, salary cap are all considered at that point (*do it, David, do it now !)

Regarding the IOC policy and its olympic program, I can only encourage people to read this piece from insidethegames

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1068066/liam-morgan-beijing-2022-will-not-be-any-more-exciting-with-addition-of-more-mixed-team-events

This two beauties sum it up quite nicely to me 

Citation

Yes, the Olympics are about celebrating participation, but they are principally about competition.

Citation

But convenience and suitability should not trump the need for thrilling competition

French selection (86 members), that's 14 more than in Amsterdam.

https://stadion-actu.fr/championnats-deurope-de-berlin-la-selection-francaise/

Lemaitre and Diniz are the two most notables missing names (both injured)

il y a 5 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

And apart from visibility, I'm pretty sure it's not exactly helpful to ride through thick, toxic smoke when competing at the very limit of the human body, with heart rates basically at or near it's maximum and trying to get every bit of oxygen molecules you can get into your system. But no, flares are great.

Yeah, that too 

If i was to put the blame to someone, that would be the guys who light up the flares . Riders really need all the visibility they can get.

Nibali's fall (not due to motorbikes as it was reported earlier)

That's right before the first bareer...

During today's press conference it has been said that the number of quotas needed for the additional sports will be counted towards the overal 10,500 athletes set by IOC Charter (contrary to what happen for Tokyo)

Il means that the number of additional sports will be low (very likely lower than five) and that they won't request a large number of quotas (any team sport is basically screwed at that point)

Edit: Paris will make its proposals by the first semester of 2019.

Besides, how many opportunities the same set of people should have to rack up medals doing basically the exact same thing. ?

il y a 13 minutes, Olympian1010 a déclaré:

That will increase though, as nations see an opportunity to medal

Any event will see participation grow if they were included in the olympics. Doesn't make it right 

I had a look at FIS website. The womens skiing big air thing had on average a whooping 7 girls competiting during this year's world cup...

Regarding the penalty :

Bonus from yesterday night:

Juste maintenant , dcro a déclaré:

 

Sure, that's one thing to look at it. The other is that we missed once-off opportunity which will not be repeatable. And we missed it in possibly the stupidest way imaginable, as even some players have admitted.

 

France will play and win many big finals. Maybe already in 2020/2022 (even though I might get a quote from Agger and his claims about European World champions ). We will not.

I'm sure people said so after 1998.

Actually, we don't. But I'm sur we'd love the exlpnation .

All right, I didn't post it earlier but that front page from l'Equipe was brillant (that was before the semi final, thus th Tintin theme)

The gremin on the left being The french FA boss (again) with Giroud and Deschamps (and his pet, don't ask)

il y a 7 minutes, Bohemia a déclaré:

 

I thought you were kidding when you said you didn't remember another French user, I thought you were intentionally snobbing him or something, sorry

I thought so too.

I feel very depressed to have made less of an impact on heywoodu that benetolympique did.

Edit; I guess to tell people to fuck off is not enough, i need to get also full retard also.

Juste maintenant , heywoodu a déclaré:

And there we have the user I couldn't get the name of to congratulate earlier on in this thread  

 

So, here we go: congratulations!

I'm the french user who tell people to fuck off, that should be easy enough to rember.

Juste maintenant , heywoodu a déclaré:

Saw that one before and still find it annoying that they also put Croatian flags on/near French territories  

People in french guyana are moaning, defintly.

11 hours ago, intoronto said:

 

From the same guy who feel obliged to correct someone when he mentions something to be "from Québec", and to claims it for glorious Canada.

Juste maintenant , konig a déclaré:

You dont like my joke 

Fuck off with that tedious shit. We allready have the most pathetic idiotic troll on the internetz claiming a world cup for Algeria each time Mbappé enter the stadium.

I'm sure that as an Argentinean, you'll find it very funny if each time Argentina was achieving anything, you'll be told that there is no such thing as argentineans but Italians, spanish and whatnots. Very funny indeed. Very original also.

Sur 12/07/2018 at 03:07 , konig a déclaré:

 

By the way: lets see who is behind the mask......

 

Fuck off 

I had to look at hckosice results post and see Groenewegen name to remember myself that I did wach the stage today.

OT Allez Allez 

il y a 56 minutes, Bohemia a déclaré:

 

France after extra time

But earlier in the match Belgium was leading 6-3. After 90 minutes it was 6-6 and then there was only one goal during ET that made France win

Sounds legit. I've put my monthly salary on it. Thanks for the tip.