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Bardet showing some balls

Just as unavoidable as the everlasting finish in Pau...

Sagan does not look like he's finishing today.

Doesn't make it good

I feel different for team sports (although I do think qualifying for the football ends too early, yes), but I think for individual sports one year is too much, not only swimming.

Not being able to swim in the world championships because you weren't good enough one year before is so stupid

[hide] Men's Tournament Knockout Round July 22nd - July 28th, 2018 16 Nations, Placement Matches, Quarterfinals Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Bronze Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 28th 2018, h. 20:30 Croatia 2 Italy Gold Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 28th 2018, h. 22:15 Serbia 3 Spain [/hide]

Jesus Gando

NINE DART FINISH for Gary Anderson!!

We've touched 38,2 degrees today (and 37 degrees in several other parts of the country), the second hottest day in history in the Netherlands (the record is still at 38,6 degrees in 1944, that barely survived today). I wish houses here were built on keeping heat outside instead of built to keep heat inside (for the winter months)

De Zwaan is playing so, so well He beat Van Gerwen, beat Lewis and now is playing amazing against Chisnall.

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.

[hide] Women's Tournament Knockout Round July 23rd - July 27th, 2018 8 Nations, Placement Matches, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Bronze Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 27th 2018, h. 20:30 Hungary 3 Spain Gold Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 July 27th 2018, h. 22:15 Netherlands 1 Greece [/hide]

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.