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Fantastic, went to put my sports clothes in the laundry right when the climb happened so I missed it.

I had not seen that before I mostly know him from a year suspension and being involved in a road rage fight last year for which he was convicted by court

Come on guys, this is a really dangerous group with huge engines like Lampaert and Vermote

Oh poor Thomas Degand, went on the early attack with 230km to go and nobody joined him I'd ask Hilaire to put on some music in my earphones and make it an extra long training

[hide] Women's Tournament Preliminary Round July 14th - July 21st, 2018 12 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 14th 2018, h. 14:00 Netherlands 6 Croatia July 14th 2018, h. 15:30 Israel 6 Italy July 14th 2018, h. 20:30 France 3 Greece July 15th 2018, h. 17:00 Israel 4 Netherlands July 15th 2018, h. 18:30 Croatia 1 France July 15th 2018, h. 20:30 Italy 3 Greece July 17th 2018, h. 17:00 Greece 3 Croatia July 17th 2018, h. 18:30 France 3 Israel July 17th 2018, h. 20:30 Netherlands 2 Italy July 19th 2018, h. 14:00 Israel 3 Greece July 19th 2018, h. 17:00 Italy 3 Croatia July 19th 2018, h. 18:30 Netherlands 3 France July 21st 2018, h. 17:00 Israel 2 Croatia July 21st 2018, h. 18:30 France 2 Italy July 21st 2018, h. 20:30 Greece 3 Netherlands Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 14th 2018, h. 17:00 Russia 6 Turkey July 14th 2018, h. 18:30 Serbia 3 Germany July 14th 2018, h. 22:15 Hungary 4 Spain July 15th 2018, h. 14:00 Turkey 4 Hungary July 15th 2018, h. 15:30 Serbia 4 Russia July 15th 2018, h. 22:00 Germany 3 Spain July 17th 2018, h. 14:00 Russia 3 Germany July 17th 2018, h. 15:30 Hungary 3 Serbia July 17th 2018, h. 22:00 Spain 3 Turkey July 19th 2018, h. 15:30 Germany 4 Turkey July 19th 2018, h. 20:30 Russia 2 Hungary July 19th 2018, h. 22:00 Serbia 3 Spain July 21st 2018, h. 14:00 Serbia 2 Turkey July 21st 2018, h. 15:30 Hungary 2 Germany July 21st 2018, h. 22:00 Spain 1 Russia Men's Tournament Preliminary Round July 16th - July 20th, 2018 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals, the 3rd Nation from each Group will qualify for Quarterfinals Play-Offs Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 16th 2018, h. 15:30 Georgia 10 Hungary July 16th 2018, h. 18:30 Germany 2 Italy July 18th 2018, h. 12:30 Germany 5 Georgia July 18th 2018, h. 20:30 Hungary 5 Italy July 20th 2018, h. 12:30 Germany 5 Hungary July 20th 2018, h. 15:30 Georgia 5 Italy Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 16th 2018, h. 11:00 Montenegro 3 France July 16th 2018, h. 22:15 Malta 6 Spain July 18th 2018, h. 17:00 Montenegro 7 Malta July 18th 2018, h. 22:00 Spain 3 France July 20th 2018, h. 18:30 Malta 5 France July 20th 2018, h. 22:00 Montenegro 4 Spain Group C Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 16th 2018, h. 14:00 Turkey 5 Greece July 16th 2018, h. 17:00 Croatia 7 Netherlands July 18th 2018, h. 11:00 Croatia 8 Turkey July 18th 2018, h. 15:30 Greece 5 Netherlands July 20th 2018, h. 14:00 Turkey 3 Netherlands July 20th 2018, h. 20:30 Croatia 3 Greece Group D Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 16th 2018, h. 12:30 Russia 5 Slovakia July 16th 2018, h. 20:30 Serbia 7 Romania July 18th 2018, h. 14:00 Romania 2 Slovakia July 18th 2018, h. 18:30 Russia 4 Serbia July 20th 2018, h. 11:00 Serbia 6 Slovakia July 20th 2018, h. 17:00 Russia 2 Romania [/hide]

Nope, but I'll ask on a Dutch forum. I do know that they didn't find a main sponsor, so they're depending on many small local sponsors. The good news is that ticket sales are going well, the match against Cuba is almost sold out already (3000 people) and 75% of the sky boxes have already been booked. Basically it needs to be a financial succes (or at least not a loss) or else it's probably over, since this is most likely the last chance for the tournament.

Weird that Dumoulin got it or weird that Fuglsang didn't? Because just to clarify: basically everyone in the Netherlands, from fans to media, agrees that they are right to give Dumoulin the penalty (which was more or less a tactical decision probably, now he lost 20 seconds with that, but without stayering he might have lost much more)

Great, because when you're going to a stadium with 60.000 people dressed in a bikini with a golden crown on your head and flags on your face and waving flags in your hand jumping up and down as high as you can, the last thing you want is for people to see you

By the way, odd time penalty for Dumoulin. He deserved the penalty for stayering behind the car, no doubt, but less than 20km earlier Fuglsang and half the Astana team did the exact same thing...I would suppose they got the same penalty, but strangely I've heard nothing about it..

Hold your horses, there's a mountain in the middle.

Still one day behind with watching (just finished yesterday's evening session). The commentator after Zohri won: "History has been made! The first ever Indonesian gold medal......in the men's 100 meters.....in the U20 World Championships!" I really don't think the main bit of history here is "the first Indonesian ever to win the 100 meter in the U20 worlds" Had they ever won any medal at all, any event? Or even any age category?

This is a bigger upset than Germany not qualifying for the knock-out stage.

The Tour de Suisse is already sort of nicknamed the fourth Grand Tour

Don't get me wrong: I don't dislike it, I just don't see why this huge stuff in huge letters couldn't be put in a spoiler, so those who want to scroll their way through it only have to make 1 click. I'm not saying "don't post it", just "it doesn't need to take 2 full screens of space"

Viet-Nam 'Chinese' was too long to write?

Out of curiousity: isn't it a good idea to use the spoiler option for those huge posts with two big videos and the top-3 of a stage in letters that are so big my entire screen is filled with just 3 names? It costs only like 2 seconds extra to click on the 'Spoiler' button and post it there, but it saves a whole lot of scrolling Easy.

Nah, not in terms of his podium chances, with that crazy hard Giro in his legs

This is, in no way at all, anything close to normal Two and a half minutes in a 15km climb time trial

What

Martin

Porte thinks this is Willunga Hill.

Slagter is alive?

I doubt it matters much, it's not like one should realistically expect him to fight for the podium

This timing for Dumoulin to get a flat tyre