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Bit of a weird interview as well. It's like his image as a swimmer is more important to him than his actual family, even saying "so that my family and everyone will recognise me as a swimmer again". I really don't think being recognised as a swimmer again should be priority when you're screwing your marriage.. By the way, a quick Google search leads to his wife being Yuka Mabuchi...a Japanese diver?

I've seen a lot of Sagan wins, obviously, but holy cow this was one of his very best bits of cycling ever. Maybe Vlaanderen 2016 is above it, but that's about it. What a ride.

The event might have some delay. A private situation has come up today and I'm not sure how much I'll be able to focus on this at the very moment - which of course isn't the priority for me right now, but I do want to have the right mindset to deliver something good. I know I won't be able to listen all songs and vote right not, for example, that'd be unfair to the contest given that I'd probably rush through them just to get it over with.

Sagan and Ganna, now that's a lead group.

Geoghegan Hart screwing the lead group by joining them with his only 2:41 minutes behind the pink jersey.

Aaaand that's all of Jumbo out.

[hide] General 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Week 2 (Stages 10-15) Vincenzo Nibali Wilco Kelderman Jakob Fuglsang [/hide]

Yeah I was happy with being the only one who didn't have Thomas on the podium, but I'm confident that my 'Kruijswijk will win' pick isn't going to end up so well

Jos van Emden gave some examples of the Giro organizers being the Giro organizers: teams are in hotels with total public access, where the riders - who are supposed to be in their 'bubble', like they definitely were in the Tour - had to share the buffets and so on with local guests. The organization has a big role to play in this slowly going down the drain with two podium favorites and a whole team already out..

Speculations based on nothing I guess, since they also didn't withdraw the whole team fromt Gent-Wevelgem after the Tiesj Benoot situation last week. And there we go, a specific item saying Matthews won't start (which one can read as 'the rest will start'). https://teamsunweb.com/mm-giro/

To be fair, the Tour de France seemed to have been much stricter in terms of protocols and such, as for example shown by two positives meaning you're out, whereas in the Giro even four positives doesn't mean you're out unless you decide so yourself.

Michael Matthews is the Sunweb rider.

Who could have expected that a peloton of 160+ riders cycling together for hours and hours while spitting around and yelling in each other's faces would lead to some positive cases? I wonder what Vuelta organizers are thinking at the moment.

Wow, all of Mitchelton-Scott has withdrawn.

If it's Kelderman, after Kruijswijk and Yates (and Thomas' misfortune), I'm switching to Vincenzo Nibali actually being from a place where voodoo magic is real

The Jumbo positive is none other than Steven Kruijswijk, damn. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Sunweb's positive is Kelderman, considering he's actually doing good and didn't have his usual bad luck yet.

Hmm.

Huh, I guess I must have only added India to the OP while forgetting the playlist Thanks!

[hide] Week 2 - Stages 10-15 Stage Top 3 Riders Lanciano - Tortoreto Stage 10 October, 13th 1st: Michael Matthews 2nd: Giulio Ciccone 3rd: Ben Swift Simon Clarke Jai Hindley Michael Matthews Mikkel Honoré Enrico Battaglin Matteo Fabbro Fabio Felline Andrea Vendrame Diego Ulissi Joao Almeida Peter Sagan Porto Sant'Elpidio - Rimini Stage 11 October, 14th 1st: Arnaud Demare 2nd: Peter Sagan 3rd: Michael Matthews Michael Matthews Fernando Gaviria Alvaro Hodeg Arnaud Demare Ben Swift Davide Ballerini Davide Cimolai Andrea Vendrame Elia Viviani Peter Sagan Cesenatico - Cesenatico Stage 12 October, 15th 1st: Giovanni Visconti 2nd: Einer Rubio 3rd: Jhonatan Narvaez Lucas Hamilton Michael Matthews Ben O'Connor Thomas De Gendt Valerio Conti Giovanni Visconti Diego Ulissi Simon Pellaud Mark Padun Lawson Craddock Cervia - Monselice Stage 13 October, 16th 1st: Arnaud Demare 2nd: Peter Sagan 3rd: Davide Ballerini Michael Matthews Fernando Gaviria Sebastian Molano Mikkel Honoré Arnaud Demare Enrico Battaglin Gianluca Brambilla Fabio Felline Andrea Vendrame Diego Ulissi Peter Sagan Conegliano - Valdobbiadene Stage 14 October, 17th 1st: Filippo Ganna 2nd: Mikkel Bjerg 3rd: Chad Haga Rohan Dennis Victor Campenaerts Mikkel Bjerg Tony Martin Alex Dowsett Filippo Ganna Jos Van Emden Steven Kruijswijk Wilco Kelderman Joao Almeida Chad Haga Rivolto Air Base - Piancavallo Stage 15 October, 18th 1st: Wilco Kelderman 2nd: Jakob Fuglsang 3rd: Domenico Pozzovivo Patrick Konrad Harm Vanhoucke Jakob Fuglsang Giulio Ciccone Fausto Masnada Vincenzo Nibali Domenico Pozzovivo Steven Kruijswijk Wilco Kelderman Rafal Majka Joao Almeida Pello Bilbao [/hide]

APELDOORN - The Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020 will be held in the city of Apeldoorn, but the focus definitely won't be on the city alone. Apeldoorn has been chosen because it's in the heart of the Veluwe, arguably the most beautiful part of the Netherlands - at least the entire Dutch delegation, every member of which was born and raised on the Veluwe, agrees. There's many centuries of history located here, sometimes in the obvious places, other times way more hidden. A word from the President of the organizing committee: "I was born on the Veluwe and spent many an hour cycling around it's forests, but there was towns not twenty kilometers away from home I'd never even heard of until I happened to come across them via some small forest road." As one would expect, these places have their history, and it's often near these hidden gems where one can find things like hills. Huh, hills? Yes, hills. Not your regular hills, but burial mounds, thousands of years old. Our President once more: "Take Niersen. Maybe three people and a cow live there, who knows, I think I was 25 when I happened to come across this place. Blink and you passed it, while cycling, but apparently I didn't blink. It's not a very interesting town, but the surroundings more than make up for it: the burial mounds, thousands of years old, are unmissable once you know they're there, and this area has been inhabited for at least 6000 years! Sorry it took me so long to find them.." Anyway, the Veluwe. The true green heart of the Netherlands and as organizing committee, we would absolutely stress any Totallympian who ever visits the Netherlands to come and pay the Veluwe a visit - a Dutch delegation member would be more than happy to personally welcome you! It's really not that special, until you realize thousands of years ago a group of people gathered here to bury someone The majestic red deer, King of the Veluwe - during this time of year one can hear their mating calls echo for kilometers across the forests in the twilight, the committee President can speak from experience and say the sound alone is impressive!

The playlist is up-to-date https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzUHeCF584Usl2kyCF-e_8s3lVBxom0re

Right, not necessary for Germany anymore I see, still for Malta @Glen, which is no problem. Then there's Moldova @Ionoutz24, if a song is submitted before Wednesday, it's fine by me.

Right, catching up on the last few days and going to enter everything in the playlist that isn't there yet now. If it's still needed, for anyone who needs it: a time extension is no problem @catgamer

Right, this thing with hemispheres being different than 'the Western world' and so on always confused me

Totallympics has got another Brazilian Rollerski Circuit win The 5k freestyle, as announced yesterday: revenge! @brunamoura crossed the line with a victory scream in what was a massive new personal best time! Second place for Duda, who absolutely broke apart her old PB The women and girls are improving left and right and that is really awesome to see!