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Not enough salbutamol for Froome.

Karsten Kroon is on fire: "I once had an Israeli teammate. He wasn't so good." The end.

I'm expecting LuLu Sanchez to go at least two minutes faster than Dennis

Bilbao Told you, Astana is gonna fly like crazy

He should be, nobody but the Giro organization wants to see him there, but he's there. It's absolutely shitty for the sport, but alright, enough has been said about it in recent weeks

Sioutsou fell as well and is on his way to the hospital.. Edit: And he's out

Superman has already crashed as well in the recon. That's already two of the three, four or maybe five main candidates down before the first stage (hopefully they're both ok)

That is Team Sky being Team Sky. They represent the worst of the worst in cycling and those are the people that are breaking the sport. I'm not gonna hope for crashes and injuries of course, but let's just say I hope they get some flat tyres or someone steals their bikes while they're sleeping

Rohan Dennis, Jos van Emden, Mads Pedersen, Tom Dumoulin....one of those

[hide] Preliminary Round May 4th - May 15th, 2018 16 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 May 4th 2018, h. 16:15 Russia 4 France May 4th 2018, h. 20:15 Sweden 4 Belarus May 5th 2018, h. 12:15 Switzerland 3 Austria May 5th 2018, h. 16:15 France 1 Belarus May 5th 2018, h. 20:15 Czech Republic 1 Slovakia May 6th 2018, h. 12:15 Austria 5 Russia May 6th 2018, h. 16:15 Sweden 2 Czech Republic May 6th 2018, h. 20:15 Slovakia 2 Switzerland May 7th 2018, h. 16:15 Belarus 4 Russia May 7th 2018, h. 20:15 Sweden 3 France May 8th 2018, h. 16:15 Austria 3 Slovakia May 8th 2018, h. 20:15 Czech Republic 1 Switzerland May 9th 2018, h. 16:15 Switzerland 1 Belarus May 9th 2018, h. 20:15 Sweden 3 Austria May 10th 2018, h. 16:15 Slovakia 3 France May 10th 2018, h. 20:15 Czech Republic 2 Russia May 11th 2018, h. 16:15 France 2 Austria May 11th 2018, h. 20:15 Belarus 3 Czech Republic May 12th 2018, h. 12:15 Slovakia 2 Sweden May 12th 2018, h. 16:15 Austria 1 Belarus May 12th 2018, h. 20:15 Russia 3 Switzerland May 13th 2018, h. 16:15 France 3 Czech Republic May 13th 2018, h. 20:15 Switzerland 3 Sweden May 14th 2018, h. 16:15 Russia 3 Slovakia May 14th 2018, h. 20:15 Czech Republic 2 Austria May 15th 2018, h. 12:15 Switzerland 2 France May 15th 2018, h. 16:15 Belarus 2 Slovakia May 15th 2018, h. 20:15 Russia 2 Sweden Group B Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 May 4th 2018, h. 16:15 United States 3 Canada May 4th 2018, h. 20:15 Germany 2 Denmark May 5th 2018, h. 12:15 Norway 2 Latvia May 5th 2018, h. 16:15 Finland 5 South Korea May 5th 2018, h. 20:15 Denmark 4 United States May 6th 2018, h. 12:15 South Korea 7 Canada May 6th 2018, h. 16:15 Germany 2 Norway May 6th 2018, h. 20:15 Latvia 5 Finland May 7th 2018, h. 16:15 United States 3 Germany May 7th 2018, h. 20:15 Canada 5 Denmark May 8th 2018, h. 16:15 South Korea 3 Latvia May 8th 2018, h. 20:15 Finland 3 Norway May 9th 2018, h. 16:15 Germany 3 South Korea May 9th 2018, h. 20:15 Finland 3 Denmark May 10th 2018, h. 16:15 United States 4 Latvia May 10th 2018, h. 20:15 Norway 3 Canada May 11th 2018, h. 16:15 Denmark 2 Norway May 11th 2018, h. 20:15 United States 5 South Korea May 12th 2018, h. 12:15 Latvia 2 Germany May 12th 2018, h. 16:15 Denmark 3 South Korea May 12th 2018, h. 20:15 Canada 3 Finland May 13th 2018, h. 16:15 Norway 2 United States May 13th 2018, h. 20:15 Germany 2 Finland May 14th 2018, h. 16:15 South Korea 3 Norway May 14th 2018, h. 20:15 Canada 5 Latvia May 15th 2018, h. 12:15 Finland 1 United States May 15th 2018, h. 16:15 Canada 4 Germany May 15th 2018, h. 20:15 Latvia 1 Denmark [/hide]

Arguments 1 and 6 The rest is rather serious allegations about the bribing. It'd be better to have stayed with that as arguments..

Waylon's entire appearance, from the hat to the leopard-like print to the boots, makes me want to poke my eyes out Go Hungary

I'm all for a unified Korean team, but for fuck's sake...from the very beginning of the tournament. This is just...disgusting and so respectless.

Look a few posts earlier, where you posted the same thing and there were some reactions

Welcome USA to the club of countries not taking care of their athletes (like Kenya, where I remember a case of a world-class athlete having to fly cheap because some federation official had to fly business class).

Or because Makhloufi didn't use enough

I am so going to watch that when that happens.

Crap. That's sad because Pozzato and sad because undisclosed personal reasons are never good...

"Dominated world championships over the years". Right, which suggests multiple world titles in the past, let's say, 10 years. - David Rudisha - Asbel Kiprop - Ezekiel Kemboi - Vivian Cheruiyot - Edna Kiplagat - Abel Kirui (although his last title is 7 years ago) Those seem to be the only options, unless they're very much exaggerating the 'dominated world championships' part..

Astana is going to destroy everyone. Four mountain stage wins for Lopez to begin with, Bilbao, Hirt, Kangert and Lutsenko will all win an attackers stage and LuLu takes two stages as well in the prime of his career. Vinokourov got mad at the beginning of the year so everyone has been flying this year and they're not gonna stop Oh and Israel Cycling Academy is probably going to sprint with 2, 3 or even 4 riders every sprint again, leading to more results like one sprint with a 9th, 12th and 15th place like they often do this year, instead of actually focussing on one guy for the sprint. BORA-tactics.

I won't complain about the entirely unneccesary use of "Men's Road Cycling", but can a mod at least take 'UCI' out? We don't need the federations name in every thread

Yay Israel, I already can't wait to be thrown dead with Eurosport's non-stop Israel commercials. I also can't wait for the Tour de France to start in Taiwan and the Vuelta a España to get started in Botswana.

Hello and welcome This could be useful, plus we have this introduction thread if you want. For questions you can always just ask it in this very thread or here, no problem

I'm sure we will have many more years where at least once per year it's 1 May.