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Well, two years later it was still "coming home", so I'm not sure what was supposed to come home this time Nice song(s) anyway.

Youtube stream is live I have no idea what I'm watching.

Why not a new thread (or one for women cycling) ?

If that's legally possible : yes ! (or at least the amount of cash put on medicine every year)

That's factually wrong... They do have a team about that (and a medical one, and a research one, and a high performance one, etc.). Granted I don't how big they are or how efficient they are. That's the thing, we don't know how much the storyline of how much professional a team is or is not is true. There is something UCI could relatively easely do and that will help with the credibility of cycling is to ask for and publish every year the accounts of every pro cycling teams. By itself, it should help to reduce the grey/illegal area and it would also allow the public to know what are the real differences in research/performance/material/whatever between teams and how much of this storyline is true.

Actually, I was reading a bit of the wielerforum in the last couple of days for curiosity sake and there is a couple of guys who don't buy the Team JV hyper domination, orange or not. In Belgium, one would be immediately stripped of his nationality if he was questioning the real TDF winner.

Funny, in francophone Belgium at least, France is claimed to be a very chauvinist country (contrary to Belgium obviously)

Well, one (gold) medal is clearly not that great. But considering the team we had there, that's was kinda expected with only two solid medal hopes (Kevin Mayer and Quentin Bigot). Honestly, I was fearing we would come empty hand for the fist time since 1993, but Drama Mayer cleared that for us on the last day. 9 Finals is better than expected, and we discovered 2 two new medal hopes for the future (Wilfried Happio in the 400mh and the men's 4*100 relay) and also that Lavillenie is not dead yet. On the placing table, we end up with 32 points which is slightly better than Doha and Tokyo. Munich can't come soon enough. Plenty of new faces will be there on the road to Paris 2024 LA 2028.

Belgian sport seems very much on the rise. Maybe, 10 medals+ in on the table for Paris ? That would be a first... since Paris 1924.

If Mayer next throws are as bad as his shot put, he won't even be on the podium. It's very open IMO.

Hassan with no medals !

Weird stuff. The B&B Hotel team that you may have seen at the recent TDF (or not ) will sign a partnership with ... the city of Paris. Actually, not a sponsorship as there won't be any money, just that the team will use the name of the city. Money wise, a new sponsor is expected to be announced very soon. So please welcome the team to be known from next year as : Paris Cycling Club - B&B Hotel - Whatever.

Please, don't use your power against us anymore.

Thank you for the jinxing. I know who I'll personally blame in case of defeat.

France into the men's foil semis also, wich means our worst ranked team at this championship (men's sabre) will end up with a 5th place

McNulty had one good joke, Van Aert is having a three weeks stand-up.

I see cycling is back to comedy club.

Enzo Lefort Fun stat: it's the first time since ... Paris 1900 that France close an international championship with 3 or more individual tittles.

What a strange sport fencing is Cannone was nobody a year ago, was not even going to Tokyo, and now he is olympic and world champion

Who was that?

Media interest generally speaking and overall recognition. Granted, I speak mostly from a french perspective (basically, no media coverage at all and sport officials barely noticing the event) It might be vastly different in other countries.

In France,the World Games just have started on TV. I'm so hyped, I only need to wipe out my memory of the last 10 days.

My sole conclusion of the 2022 world games : these athletes deserve better

Women final was live (ended 5 minutes ago on a french victory ). Men's final should be next.

Finally, the awfullness of not-on-ice artistic skating is over