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Final climb coming - 5 people in the Pinot Group, honours even in main group.

Over the top on the Croix de Coeur -descending road does indeed look very sketchy. Pinot the big name in the breakaway, gets the KoM points.

We got racing! Lots of activity early on as lots of otherwise unemployed riders & masterless ronin want to get into the early break. Very unusual day with a heavy climb right from the gun, already Cavendish, Gaviria, Milan & Co out the back.

Broken hip for TGH Giro d'Italia: Britain's Tao Geoghegan Hart fractures hip, Geraint Thomas & Primoz Roglic involved - BBC Sport

Friday's Alpine Stage gets a haircut, and the first big climb of the day, the ascent of the St Bernard Pass, has been cut out because of a shortage of hyper-cute dogs with kegs of brandy round their necks risk of avalanches. So the race goes through the tunnel instead, but still finishes with two Cat 1 climbs.

Vlasov also out, riders are mutinous.

Surfing Champion says her sport must learn to do without surfboards, wetsuits, international travel, media coverage. Surf champion Lucy Campbell says her sport must be greener - BBC News

Been around long enough not to share your blind optimism.

Even years ago there were tons of technical support sites that were obviously machine generated. I never touched them!

Used to work in IT at a University. It was childishly easy for us to pick up this kind of plagiarism, using software that's specifically designed to detect boilerplate & stereotyped text that has already been used by someone else. The first student at a UK university has been caught using ChatGPT after they cited a book on 'Leadership Insights for Wizards and Witches' to write an essay on leadership theories. In what is believed to be the first known case of its kind, the University of Bolton student was failed for using the AI-chatbot to cheat their way through the assessment. First known student at UK university caught using AI bot ChatGPT citing Wizards and Witches book | Daily Mail Online

Seems a bit odd that Muslims in Europe always vote for Islamists/Far Left in European elections, but vote for what you are calling "Islamists/Far Right" in their native country. Bit of a contradiction there.

Was a bit lucky that Evie Richards got a puncture & a terrible wheel change when 15 secs in the lead. But obviously a big win for her.

Great day for Ineos as both Thomas & Geoghan Hart hit the top three. Narrow - fractions of a second - win for Evenepoel though.

Big early lead for

Right, that’s enough of the rubbish songs - now for the judging!

Hang on, shouldn’t this be a song in this prime spot…but no, we have stolen the glory so…

Ok, my top three - which I’m sure will win - are

Get some stick, but any song that features slavic words without vowels is good for me. Šč

Stick to the cycling, lads.

Was a proper EV song.

Even with the sympathy vote this is going nowhere.

Predicting a 12 for From the jury.

Was famous for its tailors. Until today.

Anyone else notice ‘s subtle tribute to Tintin’s trousers?

Relegated to the regional play-off with Christmas Island, Vanuatu & East Timor.