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Well if I have to tolerate skateboarders doing a 0,3 second trick and surfers laying in the water for half an hour before trying something in order to have sports climbing on the program, alright, I can do that

Wait, sports climbing being 'additional sports' for Tokyo and Paris, but not even being mentioned for LA....does that mean the Olympic era of sports climbing - a rare new Olympic sports which actually adds a whole lot to the program - will already end after Paris?

Oh boy. Judging by the amount of times I've seen 'cricket' while scrolling through the past pages, I have a feeling....

By the way, quick question: I see this thread has absolutely exploded in the past few days....is there any actual news or is it mostly discussion? I wish I did (and normally I do), but sadly at the moment I don't have time to read 10+ pages about everything

The first argument is a matter of preference of course, but the second argument: I couldn't agree more. There are plenty of sports which, personally, I wouldn't want as part of the Olympic program (hello breakdancing, modern pentathlon among others), but that doesn't mean I don't respect the work the athletes put in... Added to that: the sports which for me don't need to be part of the program....what I care about is not that they are part of the program, but that they take away decently sized fields - or even entire events - from other sports which I personally prefer. Anyhow, as much of a sports fan as I consider myself, I am extremely happy I am not the one making any decisions about all this, since there is no way to do it 'right'

Nestlé being mentioned as dangerous parasites, that provides like half the jobs in my town (ok not exactly half, but it is big enough as a job provider here to greatly influence stuff like where a new road will be made)

@mrv86 If you're entering to run a marathon, you do know you're supposed to actually run the marathon course right? Public transport does not count, buddy https://runningmagazine.ca/sections/runs-races/11000-runners-disqualified-from-mexico-city-marathon-for-cheating/

It is very split. There's a big Dutch forum where it's split between people laughing their heads off at the absurd dominance they're showing (Vingegaard's Tour de France time trial was a real highlight, but Van Aert's climbing for example scores rather high as well) and some people who either just ignore it or try to rationalize it a bit. I believe there's also two other big specific cycling forums, but I don't really post there, so it's hard to say. From what I've read from other people, it's mostly just a "hurray, it's amazing!" atmosphere there though Newspapers and 'critical journalists' and such are just cheering along.

@dcro Almost influenced a competition this morning during my bike ride, unsurprisingly in the Ermelo area (it really isn't that close to Ermelo in reality, it's the outskirts of the town of Uddel where things happen) I took a turn to go towards Staverden (smallest city in the Benelux, fun fact), saw a sign that traffic was being controlled a bit further up ahead and indeed, where the main road was crossed by a smaller road, and two guys with bright yellow bibs were keeping an eye on traffic there. Bike path was clear, so I had no reason to slow down, but suddenly saw a rider on a horse come up on the smaller road, with a bib (green bib, number 22), luckily I was just in time to stop (and receive a 'thank you' hand gesture from the guy) A little further up ahead, there was a sign pointing people towards the 'FEI Endurance EC 2023', which I have now learned - as I assumed - means the European Championships. On FEI's website I see competition starts tomorrow, but I absolutely did not imagine the horse crossing the road Any idea what's going on today and, just out of curiousity, who the #22 guy might have been?

Time trial today, let's see what the organization and TV direction manages to mess up today after forgetting to check the sunset time in Barcelona, randomly taking the times way before the finish in such a way the whole stage might as well be erased and the danger was not taken away anyway (and having no system in place for that, so asking spectators for videos so they can make a result), a weird final kilometer in Tarragona causing some crashes, missing basically an entire bunch sprint for the stage win, missing deciding attacks on the climbs, being stuck in 2005 with their late TV starts resulting in missing an epic echelon battle on Sunday and going live when everything has already calmed down, being stopped by some mud and so taking the times at 2050 meters (?) from the finish at some random gate in the middle of nowhere (but with a solitary lady with a notepad standing there, so a mess in recording the times is impossible!) and then messing up the travel to the time trial city resulting in riders arriving almost in the morning. Ah, La Vuelta I can already see some of this week's stages being cancelled because they end up not having permission to cross the French border or something

It wasn't even the last mess of the day, because the travel to Valladolid for tomorrow's time trial took until 3-4am for most of the teams (plane and bus....come on, plan your Grand Tour in such a way at least in-race plane flights are gone...).

Step 1 is making sure he stays with Jumbo

Yeah, I do like it as well, but it feels so insanely obscure when it's even hard to simply fill a normal-sized final.

Lol.

Well that ain't much at all, but at least enough to fill a competitive-looking final

How many women's eights will be at the Olympics in the end? Surely more than...well, 5?

Ok, not even this month

Even some careful single digits already on the west of that map, lucky Although after a hot week here it's also rather nice now the past few days, with maximum temperatures topping out at 19-20 or so

Which of course he blamed on everyone and their mother, instead of on his own failure to brake after the finish line.

That's mostly something from up to 15 years ago or so, when it was largely a Spanish party (and the Giro was often an Italian party). 'Host broadcast coverage' isn't that much of a thing nowadays anymore. In the Giro and Tour, coverage is available basically from the start of every single stage, whether you and I can see it or not...it is there (and through the likes of Eurosport/GCN, it can be watched). Vuelta coverage simply doesn't exist for the first large part of the stage, which is just nonsense nowadays.

Cool If you're ever in roughly the area north of the line Amersfoort - Apeldoorn and you see someone cycling on a bright green Cube mountainbike, chances are it's me (chance is even bigger if a smaller person on a white Cube mountainbike is accompanying said person and both are wearing black/red/blue )

I'd say it is might be a bit unfortunate if a children's event is where one has to get their sports successes, but a win is a win, so yeah

Now that you mention it...did they even have medal ceremonies? Bit of a shame it wasn't part of the program at all, but if they'd do it the next day like the weird trend seems to be, it doesn't really matter anyway since the emotions aren't fresh anymore anyway then I do agree the championships in itself was, as per usual, a fantastic week of athletics

Then we finally go full-on into the winter season though

Jesus goddamn Christ this Radzi on Eurosport is annoying, interviewing the British 4x400m men's team right when they very clearly want to watch their teammates, the women, race their final. Have some freaking sense for sports man, you moron.