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FancyFenchel

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  1. Geraint Thomas collected all the podim places - how many riders achive that?
  2. Thomas Bach (Olympic Champion, Fencing) spotted next to the podium.
  3. Stage 1 - F. Ganna (4) Stage 2 - too late (176) Stage 3 - F. Jakobsen (5) Stage 4 - P. Sagan (5) Stage 5 - W. Van Aert (16) Stage 6 - D. Teuns (6) Stage 7 - T. Pogačar (1) Stage 8 - M.Matthews (2) Stage 9 - B. Jungels (1) Stage 10 - L. Kämna (10 + virtual yellow ) Stage 11 - J. Vingegaard (1) [=227] my last few picks was very lucky for the riders so today I'm going with Stage 12 - R. Bardet
  4. Random statiscitcs from procyclingstats: Who is the most constant rider? Overview of the riders with the smallest difference between the best and worst result: # Rider Difference Best result Worst result 1 LAFAY Victor 28 137 165 2 BARDET Romain 40 8 48 3 MCNULTY Brandon 42 20 62 4 GRADEK Kamil 42 108 150 5 THOMAS Geraint 46 5 51 6 VINGEGAARD Jonas 48 2 50 7 VLASOV Aleksandr 51 6 57 8 LUTSENKO Alexey 55 16 71 9 PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien 57 18 75 10 ROGLIČ Primož 58 3 61
  5. I know computer games are not sports, but there are bans for faking the world record too. https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/6/23196836/summer-games-done-quick-cheating-metal-gear-rising-revengeance
  6. Stage 1 - F. Ganna (4) Stage 2 - too late (176) Stage 3 - F. Jakobsen (5) Stage 4 - P. Sagan (5) Stage 5 - W. Van Aert (16) Stage 6 - D. Teuns (6) Stage 7 - T. Pogačar (1) Stage 8 - M.Matthews (2) Stage 9 - B. Jungels (1) Stage 10 - L. Kämna (10 + virtual yellow ) [=226] Stage 11 - J. Vingegaard
  7. Kämna in yellow! Virtually. UAE give up or just save energy of decimated team.
  8. Also wearing face mask. Pogačar have to watch out not to be positive in few days. I know they are sleeping alone, but what about eating, team bus rides or team briefing? I don't belive they did it without any contact. BTW. Kämna is in breakaway today, yeah!
  9. So the methodology is just some survey of random people living in one city and having no comparsion about others? (nothing against Edinburgh)
  10. Stage 1 - F. Ganna (4) Stage 2 - too late (176) Stage 3 - F. Jakobsen (5) Stage 4 - P. Sagan (5) Stage 5 - W. Van Aert (16) Stage 6 - D. Teuns (6) Stage 7 - T. Pogačar (1) Stage 8 - M.Matthews (2) Stage 9 - B. Jungels (1) [=216] Stage 10 - L. Kämna
  11. Stage 1 - F. Ganna (4) Stage 2 - too late (176) Stage 3 - F. Jakobsen (5) Stage 4 - P. Sagan (5) Stage 5 - W. Van Aert (16) Stage 6 - D. Teuns (6) Stage 7 - T. Pogačar (1)! Stage 8 - M.Matthews (2) Stage 9 - B. Jungels
  12. Stage 1 - F. Ganna (4) Stage 2 - too late (176) Stage 3 - F. Jakobsen (5) Stage 4 - P. Sagan (5) Stage 5 - W. Van Aert (16) Stage 6 - D. Teuns (6) Stage 7 - T. Pogačar (1)! Stage 8 - M.Matthews Coivd strikes back: UAE Team! Chruis Froome being 41st yesterday - it's his best result since 2018. Also yesterday German Eurosport commentator said Roglic is Slovak.
  13. So podium in Paris should looks like: 1. Pogačar 2. Vingegaard 3. Thomas
  14. Stage 1 - F. Ganna (4) Stage 2 - too late (176) Stage 3 - F. Jakobsen (5) Stage 4 - P. Sagan (5) Stage 5 - W. Van Aert (16) Stage 6 - D. Teuns (6) Stage 7 - T. Pogačar
  15. Stage 1 - F. Ganna (4) Stage 2 - too late (176) Stage 3 - F. Jakobsen (5) Stage 4 - P. Sagan (5) Stage 5 - W.Van Aert (16) Stage 6 - D. Teuns
  16. Jumbo BikeExchange So much action on the stage. Crashes & defects. Pogačar attacing but at the end it doesnt event matter. Pogačar made only 13s. Van Aert saves Vingegaard, his jersey and a bunch of other riders like Thomas (btw. Ineos had a lot of good riders for the cobbelstones, but at the end they leaders were mostly alone). Stage 5 - W.Van Aert - could I have extra points for him beeing MVP of the stage? :D DNF: GOGL Michael HAIG Jack Also TVmoto hit the hay bale and caused a massive crash.
  17. Stage 1 - F. Ganna (4) Stage 2 - too late (176) Stage 3 - F. Jakobsen (5) Stage 4 - P. Sagan (5) Stage 5 - W.Van Aert
  18. Some memes from today: Philipsen was just happy with his place! :D
  19. Magus Cort just won 11/12 climbs. He is absolutely dominating the KOM. Great ride from Van Aert!
  20. This roundabout just 200m before 3km safety line... And two others round about corners. Some people just want peloton to burn. Stage 1 - F. Ganna (4) Stage 2 - too late (176) Stage 3 - F. Jakobsen (5) Stage 4 - P. Sagan
  21. The sprint of Van Aeart was semi-fair. Probably enough for penalty. Just 78 of 176 riders finished in peloton. As far i can see +39" Uran Caruso G.Martin Froome Mollema also Jungels Haig
  22. Jakobsen messed the last corner, was may to much on the outside and lost a lot of positions. QST had probably the best sprint team. Van Aert just another second place.
  23. Oh… schön here we go again! I am internally torn between two oppositions. On the one hand I just want to reduce the number of events per/or discipline to create a dense and compact schedule. Where everyone event is unique and all the very best athletes of the sport are competing against each other in the same event. This will made also easier to follow to the fans and watch. On the other hand I want more sports and more events to have more Olympics. On some days I just want to reduce the swimming schedule to just like 10 events. On others I’m fine with actual plan, even though I get headache after watching 100+ swim races and trying somehow memorized who won medals, was in the final. I not sure how to solve this conflict. But a few things I like to change at the Olympics are: 1) Ultra controversial here: get rid of the medal table! Just do not sum medals from different sports, which are incomparable for sake of some nationalistic pride. 23 swimmers could win shit tone of medals for the table, while 23 footballer just one. Also if a country just focuses on maximising their medal output, could just invest in few sports, which are giving a lot of medals/discipline/athletes. Also state base doping system are resulting from the ambitions of being top on the medal table. Also the medal table is just reducing all the athletes, all their live and all the way to the Games and all the competition to just some number in the table. I hear a lot something like “How many medals we (<- our country) won? And why so little?” They don’t ask who get the medal, in which sport, how was the competition, what is their story, was it disappointment, was it lucky shot, was it fair. No they want to hear the single number. They don’t care about sport, about competition, about athletes. Also if we get rid of the medal table, we will have less discussion about this discipline needs more event, these have too much etc. Because the importance of the sport will less dependent on the number of medals you could get. 2) I like and I want a constancy of the Olympic programme. It doesn’t mean we could add or get rid of new sports or add new events etc. But I don’t like completely changing all the programme at every game, constantly adding something or just adding new sport for one games! 3) Less controversial things: Mixed events only if they are not redundant and adding something new to the games. Having mixed 4x400m (or swimming 4x100m free) additional to the men’s and women’s one make no sense. Adding something like mixed 4x800m or mixed team in some sport like triathlon is perfectly fine for me. 4) I think all this quota reducing is ridiculous. IOC we reduced quota to reduce the cost! Hey now we can add new sports with new venues to increase costs again! Absolutely genius. Furthermore, quotas are incomparable. We could have additional 50-100 cyclist for the road race, who only are only competing for the one day (professional cyclist are also used to sleep at different hotels evert night), they are not the same quota like some team sport with two-week tournament. Also how does the number of surfers on Tahiti interfere with number of athletes in Paris? Ok, I’m done. For now.
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