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Czechs, tired of being 'Europe's garbage can', will push for better food I support everyone that pushes for better food

It's like the Maldives sent their flag to rape the Mauritania flag in Chernobyl, leading to this horror of an alien-baby-flag.

The way Naesen saved Bardet's Tour today, fighting on his own against a full-power echelon, one of the best short performances of the Tour so far

Boooooooooo And that thing looks ugly, holy hell

China

That was not good at all from Carter

Better than nothing, thanks

Has the live scoring been found by now btw? I still can't find it anywhere, which is hugely annoying.

How does the team event work? Individual jumps and the points are added I suppose, since it's not synchro?

I've got a feeling ice hockey is a big deal in Slovakia

What a stage Echelon masterpiece, once again Dutch and Belgians showing this is their strength (especially Naesen, saving Bardet's ass )

There's even some previews, tranfer news etc on the regular Dutch websites now and then (which is a lot more than men's handball, men's/women's basketball and some sports like that) Obviously football is the biggest sport here like in almost every country in the world, I'd say in terms of attention it's followed by cycling, darts, speed skating, Formula 1 (in random order)

Good chance for EBH then, especially combined with the finish line that's not easy at all

Is Janse van Rensburg still there? By far the best lead-out in this Tour so far, EBH could definitely win it if JvR is there.

I don't care if I'd have money on Bouhanni, never would I cheer for that guy

Women's water polo is no exception in getting some kind of public interesting between Olympics in countries where there's a team that's competitive on an international level. Of course less than bigger sports like basketball (but that's the same for men's water polo), but that's what happens with a sport like water polo that's in general just not very big or popular on a worldwide level. In the top-8/10 level it's apparently more competitive than men's water polo by the way.

That's even less than I thought....now that's quite pathetic actually Only two nations more than korfball

Last world championship ranking is not exactly a good thing to look at, since there you had the same problem with non-competitive teams competing. The main point: for a 8-10 team tournament it's perfectly justified to have women's water polo there. Public interest depends entirely on the success of teams, like in almost any sport. Here nobody gives a damn about men's water polo for example. Besides, in men's water polo isn't it basically always the same few teams who dominate? That's getting a little tiring.

Reporter: "Matthews, how did you win the points jersey?" Matthews: "Because I used my capabilities better than my rivals and so got the most points, obviously."

Abandon Bennett

Dishonest? Don't get me wrong, I prefer Kittel winning the green than Matthews, but every number 2 in any competition would be utterly stupid if they don't try to win the race in a way that's obviously within the rules It's like not Kittel had mechanical troubles and lost the time because of that, he's not good enough and it's perfectly fine, honest and smart to use that to your advantage.

Netherlands beating France 17-2, beating Japan 20-8, when is someone gonna give our team a hard time?

Definitely, although this many teams is just stupid. There's 8-10 teams who can actually fight and so 10 teams would be good for the Olympics. 16 teams is a little too much.

But the green jersey isn't necessarily for the best sprinter Although I usually prefer the sprinters winning it, so Kittel winning now would be a good change in finally having the best sprinter win the green after quite some years