Road Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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Team Slovakia

 

Day 1

SATURDAY 27.07.2024

 

14:30 Road Cycling W Individual Time Trial Final

25. Nora Jenčušová  44:22.30 (+4:44.06)

 

[Olympian1010 7,971]

16 hours ago, heywoodu said:

It has been quite a work behind the scenes to get them to start here, and even under their country's flag, but it did work. If I'm not mistaken they train somewhere in Europe nowadays, I feel like it's Germany but I'm not sure. It's working though!

I believe she and her sister have been training at the UCI WCC for the last few months. Great ride for her today.

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14 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Flat tyre for Tarling.

That sir, is a city in  (and a very important city in ancient Phoenicia)

 

I believe you mean "tire." 

[Monzanator 4,499]

I believe Australians also use the word "tyre". And even more shocking "tyres"

 

[heywoodu 15,135]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

That sir, is a city in  (and a very important city in ancient Phoenicia)

 

I believe you mean "tire." 

I was in fact talking about the place where the Carthaginian empire has it's roots after the princess/queen found her way out with a trick. Tarling wants to visit it, but it's sadly flat!

Edited July 28 by heywoodu

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1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

I believe she and her sister have been training at the UCI WCC for the last few months. Great ride for her today.

And especially Yulduz is really doing good, this year's she's been finishing midway in the pack in quite strong and good races, whereas usually athletes from her background would finish far, far, far ahead of the pack. If she can keep this progress up, and of course that is always an 'if', I genuinely believe she'll be capable of slowly moving towards things like top-30 results in (mostly flat, for now) World Tour races. Doing that even once would be amazing.

https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/yulduz-hashimi

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4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I was in fact talking about the place where the Carthaginian empire has it's roots after the princess/queen found her way out with a trick. Tarling wants to visit it, but it's sadly flat!

I thought it was Carthage the Romans left flat not Tyre.

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1 minute ago, Nickyc707 said:

I thought it was Carthage the Romans left flat not Tyre.

Yeah, Tyre got done by other powers, but it still ended  Carthage was with the Romes indeed.

 

Kind of off topic, but the Fall of Civilizations podcast is amazing, coincidentally the Carthage episode is the second-to-last one I listened.

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8 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah, Tyre got done by other powers, but it still ended  Carthage was with the Romes indeed.

 

Kind of off topic, but the Fall of Civilizations podcast is amazing, coincidentally the Carthage episode is the second-to-last one I listened.

The Romans had a talent for it. They did the same to Corinth. 

 

One of the best programmes I've seen of that kind was about the fall of the Hittite Empire which covered large parts of Turkey, Lebanon and Syria. The discovery of a library in the abandoned capital, the work done to decipher the language and the consequent revelations about the rise, fall and collapse of their Empire were fascinating. I'm still waiting for someone to decipher Etruscan though.

 

 

[Epic Failure 355]

Kwiato has pulled out of the RR for

 

Stanisław Aniołkowski replacing him.