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Too bad it was Laporte in 2nd place, and not the sadly absent Bouhanni for Cofidis

ASO's work has been rewarded

And what I heard is the same that you often hear in these fast-spreading wildfires: people try to get out by car, the roads get blocked and people burn in their cars.

Found the insult

The jury definitely deserves some complaint there: penalizing one rider for that was 100% correct, whereas another top rider got away without any sort of punishment for doing the same thing a few kilometers earlier. And no, nobody is saying the punishment should not have happened (also there's quite a few people saying 20 seconds was too little).

That sounds awfully painful.

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So Dressel has to qualify for next year's world championships in another way?

Fan-freaking-tastic. The 678th stage finish in the unavoidable Pau and to add insult to injury, the ASO thought it'd be fun to go through the north, where there is not a single bit of climbing apart from 2 joking hills, instead of going to the south and pick up some leftover parts of the Pyrenees. It's like they hate everyone who likes the Tour de France. A fitting end to this insulting stage would be Demare taking the stage win while holding onto the car.

Interestingly, the guy is mentioned as Irish on Procyclingstats https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider.php?id=129113 Also having competed in the Irish national championships recently, so I'd say he counts as Irish

He's being accused left and right of cheating on the mountains by only being able to finish in time by hanging on to cars. Plus organizers made the time limit easier when he was in trouble, but didn't do anything when non-French sprinters were in trouble, of course. Apart from that Demare did not make himself much appreciated with his bitchfight with Bouhanni when they were in the same team.

I think he won't appreciate you calling him 'she' And this is just the confirmation or something, Pars being caught/banned was news in April

That moment when you discover your boyfriend (for several years) with whom you've been having sex, actually has no penis. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/25/man-no-penis-admits-sexually-assaulting-two-women-thought-having/

What an exciting sport

One part in the far east of the country had a bit of a shower (actually more like a mini-hurricane judging by the videos)....look at that temperature drop in 10 minutes I want that too.

I seriously love sports and events where the entry lists are ordered based on qualifying times/performance and not on nationality.

Thomas escaped the action of some probably drunk idiot. Good thing that moron is easily recognizable with a photo like this, one should think he will be easy to arrest.

So he'll DNS on Saturday?

Some moronic policeman thought Froome was a tourist and pulled him off his bike on the descent after the finish

Where are you people watching this?