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Programme for Brussels on Friday. https://brussels.diamondleague.com/en/programme-results-brussels/

5k to the sprint Bennet gets it, Sagan 4th so to virtual Green.

World Road Championships 2020 confirmed for Imola, . Race track used for the start & finish, but mainly out on the roads. Quite hilly. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/53942004 Just four events though - Senior Men & Women ITT & Road Race. 2020 UCI Road World Championships Programme Thursday, 24 September: Elite Women individual time trial Friday, 25 September: Elite Men individual time trial Saturday, 26 September: Elite Women road race Sunday, 27 September: Elite Men road race Well done tutto il mondo for pulling all that together at less than a month’s notice.

Still nothing doing today. Intermediate sprint in about 10k, so maybe some action after that.

Nobody interested in a breakaway yet - come on, minor French teams, what are you being paid for? People need to know what kind of seed potatoes they should be buying. Aha, here we go!

Good, he is now liable to be taxed on all the reconstruction costs he has incurred.

First idiot fan of the year!

Pierre Roland first to attack. Doesn’t stick.

Revisions for the 2121 timetable - No Aus or NZ legs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/53981892

All the specialist sprinters out the back with 20k to go.

Nasty crash for Tiesj Benoot from the leading group. Fortunately the grass is very lush! About €4000 worth of damage for the bike.

100k to go, getting into the hilly bit now. Got your usual breakaway snaffling up the points. Sam Bennett got the intermediate bonus, so is now equal with Sagan on points but way down on time, so unless he does something in the end.... Today’s futile, pointless, doomed solo bid for glory will be staged by Nils Politt

Lausanne Diamond League tomorrow. Not a full meet though - it’s a special pole-vault only city centre event held on the only flat bit of Lausanne, in front of the station. All the big men’s names are there. Women’s event not quite so strong.

Ordinarily Arkea-Samsic would not get near the TdF, but they have the Quintana brothers so....

Think Rabobank still exist as a local development Dutch team.

Got some live rowing this weekend - European U-23 from Duisburg.

Think so, 2nd in the Bonus, 6th at the line.

Wow! Ewan came from a long way back!

It’s like one of those Shakespeare plays where everyone ends up dead in the end & the new King is a five-year-old boy.

Didi the Devil is there! Must be sponsored by a hip & knee replacement company judging by the way he is jumping around.

Sagan takes the sprint bonus. Well, second really.

Perez has now abandoned! How strange. Crash, broken collarbone! Would have had the KoM if he’d gotten to the finish.

They’ve knocked it on the head now, back into the pack. Cousin off on his own on a 120km ride to glory!

Only going to be one WTS race this year, and it’s in Hamburg this weekend. Men & Womens on Saturday, team relay Sunday. https://wts.triathlon.org/news/article/2020_world_triathlon_champions_to_be_crowned_at_wts_hamburg There’s also a couple of World Cup races in September & October, but obviously no chance of races in N. America.

Pouring rain again.