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Tarling Bike exchange and then was brought back to the peloton behind the team car, very clearly. Now he's taken out of the race, there you go. Another serious outsider gone.

Tiller, Hagenes, Haller and of course indeed Asgreen...that was a lead group of rare strength for races like this.

Out of curiousity, what would be the easiest sport for him to qualify in? Is there a summer equivalent (in terms of qualifying) of cross-country skiing before the changes to make it harder/more realistic? I'd guess athletics with the universal quota, but if only one athlete from is better in the 100m or something, that'd be tough Of course world rankings in MTB are quite odd that way too I believe, or has that changed by now so athletes can't get high enough anymore solely based on 'easy' races?

What

Her sister testing positive for EPO as well doesn't exactly help her case though.

You do realize it's 'best lamb dishes' specifically, right? Not exactly surprising for Turkey to dominate this

This remains unbelievable to me. I mean, one strike can happen, people make honest mistakes. But if that happened, you're already supposed to really be on edge.....then it happens again.... If you know that a third time will result in a ban, which it should, how are you not spending every day making absolutely sure, ten times a day, that all your whereabouts information and everything else is entirely correct? Ask your coach, ask your federation, ask your NADO, ask everyone to make sure you do it correctly... Like Rastorgujevs in biathlon: he got a strike because he wrote down his address as "Stelvio, Bormio", which was obviously not enough to locate him (as WADA/IBU/whoever told him). He then got another strike unrelated to that, and later a third strike......because he wrote "Stelvio, Bormio" as his address again. Come on. There might have been something else going on in her case, like not having anyone at all available to ask something to (teammates, coaches, federations and so on, maybe the relationships between them are bad, who knows), but ban or not, at least I hope she will learn to deal with the system...

Fantastic, can't wait for that whole act again....

Sterkenburg beats Smetko , two wins to go to get to Paris.

Where can I sign for this? Cool to see there is actually some hope (I mean, probably he won't get it, but if you say the chance is there, I'll have hope). Brother Marcel Sterkenburg in 87kg is already out in the first round, so it'll have to be him

And if you desperately need to show something, just keep it with the helicopter shot from high up without zooming in. That way we see the situation isn't cleared yet, but we can't see the details of what they're doing. But yeah, preferably just don't show it at all. Put an extra camera on the waiting peloton or something, that's pretty interesting often, hearing the riders talk and discuss the situation and so on.

Also Jay Vine....again. Peloton went on that downhill like crazy (for no real reason at all), even after someone in the lead group had already missed that turn a few minutes earlier... Basque/Spanish TV director should be fired immediately by the way, not only keeping the live pictures there forever, but even zooming in, showing all the replays, slow motion scenes of riders who may or may not be conscious.....those utter imbeciles from the Giro d'Italia TV during Wouter Weylandt's last moments alive all over again.... I mean, come on. They zoomed in as far as possible on Vingegaard, who we at least saw move a bit every now and then, and also on the UAE guy who was just motionless on his back (like Weylandt that time). We as audience don't need to see that, the riders' families don't need all that on TV. Fucking idiots.

For safety reasons, Paris - Roubaix organizers have decided to let a full peloton of riders fight massively for a super tight and sharp 'chicane' right before the famous Arenberg cobbled section. Can't go wrong!

"The highest placing boat from a country receives 8 points, the second highest 6 points" etc What is that all about? Wouldn't one assume that in a given category, the winner of said category receives maximum points, no matter what nation they're from? Maybe she's explaining it wrong in the video, maybe (most likely) I'm misunderstanding it, but it sounds rather silly

Renzo Tjon-A-Joe has received a Dutch passport and will most likely represent the Netherlands (if he qualifies of course) in Paris, instead of Suriname

Jeez, Schooling, Irie within a day or so, I suppose they didn't make qualifying times to announce retirement this short before the Olympics?

Tomorrow in the prologue in the Basque Country, all favourites start before the TV broadcasts begins

The spectator who was hit on the Hotond is badly injured, but not in a life threatening condition.

Spectator hit, she was not looking good at all... Belgian TV's motorbike commentator said he just passed the place of the crash and said it looked very bad.

Nice 140km warm up is done

It is the day of days, Tour of Flanders Although in Belgium it's the end of a week of national mourning, it has had a general vibe - and I swear I am not exaggerating - as if Van Aert died last Wednesday (he got injured and broke a few things but he most certainly is still alive). Flanders is....weird All week long, all the cycling talk shows have been about it, there were live blogs about his wife and kids arriving in the hospital and so on.

Cambridge stroke Matt Edge very much in physical trouble, about to faint even it looks like. Very much, you know...on the edge.

Doesn't look like it's going to be the first real close race in over two decades. Too bad

Almost time for the men, go Oxford (because of Jelmer Bennema)

Still always feels more special than even the world championships Nice bit of fighting, Oxford cox wasn't happy at all