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#creatingmemories on the Team Sunweb jerseys, ugh I hate their new age hippie crap

Elie Gesbert has started and the Tour is under way

Not if you stole my idea of Küng winning.

I'm curious about this as well. I guess it's no problem to post the stage predictions the day before or of that stage, like with tennis and all other contests?

That is just not nice at all. Like, really not nice.

It's probably a good idea to write that in the rules, because now it says that after today, you're too late

So we have until Monday for all predictions? Cool, I'll wait with my predictions until the first two stages are finished then, it'd be not so smart to enter them now

Dutch NOS: 'Three big favourites: Froome, Quintana and Gesink' Not only do they manage to not even show Quintana in this photo, but Jesus, Gesink? I mean, I'd jump around of happiness if he wins the Tour more than any cycling result could make me happy and a million times better than when Dumoulin won the Giro because Gesink is an awesome guy who's had an insane amount of shit in the past years, but no, just no, not a favourite

Oh, on the podium there was a little smile from Gbagbi

About Beigi: I thought I remembered there was something about the Iranian federation treating him bad or something, or at least some reason to go to Azerbaijan apart from just money, like too strong competition at home (I'm not sure, I thought I read it here on Totallympics but of course correct me if I'm wrong) I'm curious why he's considered a traitor, since I guess simply switching nationality doesn't automatically make someone a traitor depending on the circumstances. I just watched the finals now and annoyingly, the entire 2nd round (where pretty much all action happened) of Beigi's final is just not in the video, like it's removed Well, winning silver while being out of training since Rio....I'm fairly sure that's an impressive result. I'm not a fan of Gbagbi, she seems so emotionless, even when she won gold she just walked around without even a tiny smile on her face

Küng to beat Van Emden at odds of 1.9 at Fonbet, that sounds good

I'm just looking at the odds for today's stage now and Küng has odds of 7-9 Tony Martin as the big favourite seems odd, he hasn't really done anything that interesting this year. Roglic makes sense considering his fantastic year, Van Emden has said around 264 times in the past week that he is very tired because he started training way too fast after the Giro.. Ok, money going on Küng with these odds And maybe a tiny bit on Porte.

Nope

As for today, Stefan Küng will take the win, just so you all know that already.

I agree with almost everything I'd put Quintana a little lower, but then again, he spent some magic time in Colombia after the Giro so you never know how he's coming back. I don't think Fuglsang will get close to a top-10, for Majka it all depends on having a bad day or not. If he doesn't, he could get top-5, if he has one bad day, he might just lose more time to have the freedom to attack as per usual. Same thing about the green jersey: Sagan as huge favourite and Kittel as the big favourite in case Sagan DNF's. For Matthews and Colbrelli I think there's just not enough 'hard' stages and all other sprinters (from Demare to Cimolai and Cavendish to EBH and Groenewegen to Kristoff) seem way too....meh, not regularly fast enough. Like every year I think there's at least 30 riders who could realistically win the polka dot jersey, it just depends entirely on who wants to go for it, who has a bad GC and wants to compensate for that etc, more than anything this is about who wants to go for it rather than who can do it Pinot because he's definitely not going for a GC after the Giro and Rolland because he's a superb attacker, so I agree. Same with Majka if his GC falls apart and hopefully Gesink sticks to the plan and let's go of his GC ambitions. 100% agreed about the white jersey

Decided not to do it after all? I guess with less than 5 hours to go it's kind of too late

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African championships with good live timing where results are easy to find, this is something new and good

Two winners in one race, this whole Czechoslovak championship thing keeps being something 'different' year after year

It was clear that he was in very good shape, but 71+ meters...damn

I'll eat my shoe if he does that

9.75, 19.48, 42.75 at South African champs next year, Semenya Style

The mistake LeTour made is that Reguigui is not in the team, but Jaco Venter is. Which all is an utterly ridiculous selection for the team that presents itself as "Africa's Team" by the way, not even one single Eritrean when they've got Teklehaimanot, Berhane, Debesay and Kudus to choose from. But alright, that's another discussion.

It's not Switzerland and it's not raining, so Spilak wouldn't have so much to do here

ISU qualifying standards in speed skating should be absolutely no problem at all for Pedro Causil of Colombia, so that's very good news