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Goes to fractions, I think?

TGH wins! Into Rosa!

Same thing happened on Thursday & he cracked in the last 4km. Almeida now attacking Kelderman for 3rd. Hindley goes! Dennis gets him back. Gee, two great battles at once! Hindley again, TGH follows! Irish fans going crazy - Geoghagan is an Irish name, don’t know his family history. Probably has one Irish parent.

You never know if the graffiti on the road relates to this race or is some archaeological relic from years gone by.

Kelderman’s group are now practically accepting cans of beer from the spectators, so that’s him done. Hindley gets the sprint, should go on the attack now.

They’re going to contest the sprint! t

Yeah, but he only wants to keep it to say 45 secs to a minute though. Might still be possible. indeed, Kelderman’s group is making up time now. But...

Kelderman has a strong group, might be able to make up something on the descent. Problem is that he has no Sunweb rider to help him, so can’t count on the others. Hmm, TGH has another Brit, Matthew Holmes in his group.....now if this was Pinot, disons & any random Frenchman...

That’s what every Grand Tour needs, morons with smoke canisters. Oh look, new emoji! Didi is there! Wham, big splits straight away. Dennis on front. Kelderman struggling! Now a straight race between Hindley & TGH!

In conjunction with the record-challenging cold that is set to surge southward across the central and western United States, another potentially record-setting snowstorm is set to target millions of Americans in the coming days. This time, the dose of wintry precipitation will target areas much farther south, including some that typically don't pick up snow until much later in the season. https://www.aol.com/2020-10-23-october-snowstorm-set-to-smash-early-season-records-24660758.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9wam1lZGlhLmNvbS9pbnN0YXB1bmRpdC8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC-QhLaD9lbTGEBbXIQdYEhyhGoH0XafQ6tsbhr0CnSkGkZZD_kwGSIrnpCdKOFSaTnWfJxiTXIomMlE64lJGUghHuFDqACQCtoIvkNgllVCbLvCFIsGwIP4Q5BcXu20H11obxOKOBvAKaPMtgNTHN1ar82hshyTGDgbENaR1tbi

Second time up, 36k to go, Ganna goes to the front....

Peloton starting to break up now. INEOS now on front driving with 66k to go.

Couple of bits of early news. Arnaud Demare unbeatable as winner of the Ciclamino Jersey. Ruben Guerreiro unbeatable as winner of the King of the Mountains Jersey, obviously terms & conditions apply. At the moment trundling along on the flat, 101km to go, then three climbs of Sestriere to come. Think each climb is a slightly different route. Breakaway with 7 mins. Hah, no snow on this side of the Alps. Check your winter sports schedules & bets accordingly. Just got the classic helicopter shot where the camera pans from riders spinning around on the flat to the absolute wall of rocks they’re approaching. Just a few km till the climbing starts. Astana - what’s left of them - now closing the gap & riding for Fuglsang.

The bad news: last Sand Rally race before the Winter Break! The good news: Marbula 1 [ie Formula 1, but you’ll get sued for calling it that] is back on 7 November.

So what you’re saying is that it’s mostly the rarest birds that get killed by wind turbines?

Well, we’re approaching the Mordor of conspiracy theories now.

Yeah, but wind & solar kill actual physical living birds. Fossil fuel plants only kill theoretical, statistical birds in academic journal articles financed by the green lobby.

See, this bears out my theory that nowadays the majority of dopers in cycling are second-raters desperate to get a contract renewal.

Doubt it will be Kelderman: his team-mate Hindley looks the better bet just now.

Bunch sprint in classic order developing over in Northern Spain.... All sorts of people you didn’t even know were in the race appear for the sprint & Sam Bennett gets it. Two wins in a row for .

Much needed won for Josef Černy - no contract next year, team going out of business & no team GT wins in two years.

Peloton gives up the chase: fourteen in the breakaway will be fighting for the win.

Of course not. Your liberal friends never tell people there are heavy ecological costs associated with their policy preferences. In fact, solar farms also kill large numbers of birds. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solar-farms-threaten-birds/

He’s absolutely correct. https://www.fws.gov/birds/bird-enthusiasts/threats-to-birds/collisions/wind-turbines.php

Well, that’s democracy for you. Not quite sure why people expect a minority should be able use the Courts to dictate laws to the majority after the minority has lost a whole series of elections.