Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2022 (La Vuelta ciclista a España)

Turienzo is developing! She's still away from the level of Nolot, Moroz and Kampman but I expect a good performance at the WCh. Her peak years are still to come (not even 20 yet).

in the first night of freestyle finals, Russia won 4 out of 5 golds. they have 2 in the final tomorrow, I think they can reach their pre-tournament goal of winning 6 golds.   but interestingly all 20 medalists of tonight were either from Ex-Soviet countries or Russian mercenaries representing somewhere else   I think it's fair to say men's freestyle wrestling is dead and buried in Europe unfortunately. (I mean the old Europe excluding Ex-Soviets) hopefully the new UWW policy pushes some of these countries to restart their own program instead of just buying mercenaries but that will take time.

It was rather a little joke on my part - she never competed on a bike, like Sablikova, but rather combined skating with roller skating. I very like her character- she is very similar to Longo Borghini and unfortunately not every our women`s cyclist has something like that.

With the strength of the Netherlands and their good strategy you can be confident about the good future, which can`t be said about Italy, where everything is and has always been a great unknown and improvisation

Okay, mental strength and ambition are importatn thing, but you still need a lot of money for preparation and training, and working in Ukraine for the last 4 years has been very risky. Also, there is certainly more money going into to higher the army than, say: 10 or 15 years ago- sport is simply not a priority there anymore, like in the USSR years, or around 2000 - at least I think so.