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And this eventually decided the GC Fantastic final stage with an epic Fuglsang vs Porte battle, Fuglsang eventually won it by a few seconds because of those seconds Porte lost Friday when Froome nearly pushed him in the barriers.

Andrea Dovizioso And wow, Folger and Zarco are absolutely superb additions to MotoGP

By putting the bar 25cm higher than your PB and jump over it? At least that's what I'd suggest

MotoGP in Catalunya so far is almost like a Moto3 race

Menno Vloon had a PR of 5.60m, jumped 5.70m yesterday to get the standard for the world champs, then moved to 5.85m and cleared that as well, new national record

Four laps around Cham today, with one not so easy climb in every lap.

That should be fine of course, but it shouldn't be some sort of forced rule. I wouldn't open a thread if it's obligated to post all kinds of podiums and whatnot and everything in a forced exact same way etc. Someone who wants to do that should do that, someone who doesn't want to do that shouldn't have to do that (and should still be allowed to open a thread without the opening post being changed to fit the exact strict format for example).

Freaking hell, this punch given by Murthel Groenhart to Harut Grigorian (and someone getting in the ring hitting Groenhart) Big question remains why on earth Grigorian walked away.

Wonderful, that gives hope

Federer91 gave a good explanation for that a couple of pages ago

I'm not sure neither but I doubt there's a lot of hosting difference between these two examples: Example 1: 5 threads with 100 posts each Example 2: 100 threads with 5 posts each In both examples there's 500 posts

Ah, yes. I think if someone is interested in opening a thread about a specific tournament or competition, that should almost be reason enough to do so. If it turns out there's no interest, it'll fade away by itself and there's nothing lost.

Because why not Honestly, it's the only reason I could think of Well, apart from it being like a big 'cooling down' towards his next peak.

But then you've got the whole thing where first someone has to make a decision about whether or not there are enough posts about it and so on. What is the need of having all these super strict 'rules' all the time? It's not North Korea, there's nothing wrong with opening a thread when there is big news or a big competition. If you open a thread for a competition and there's not enough buzz, so be it, it's not the end of Totallympics. I don't read the general basketball thread, but if someone would open a thread when there's some big news I'd definitely read that, and I think I'm not the only one who'd think like that. It's just so weird and useless to have all these subforums for every sport but have every subforum populated with mostly 1 or sometimes 2-3 active threads. It's almost as if people have some sort of irrational fear for threads, but they don't get in the way and they help in making the entire forum more findable.

For a 6km time trial, one could definitely call this domination by Dennis, 56km/h

Ostapenko

Well that was a tiny bit lucky

Come on Ostapenko, now finish it off and give me those delicious 2-1 prediction contest correct score points

He has 4 theoretical chances, but I'm not convinced he'll win more than one stage

So one federation is fighting against doping yet gets warned, another is corrupt to the absolute core of the federation itself (like boxing) and it doesn't get any warning....riiiiight

There's live timing http://www.matsport.fr/

6:37 for Cannondale's Ryan Mullen as fastest time so far.

Exactly! And besides, it's just annoying to talk about several races all in one thread (just like Tirreno and Paris-Nice in the beginning of the year)

At the team presentation yesterday, there was a sort of sprint competition on roller bikes, where every team selected one rider for the match-up. Niccolo Bonifazio had a little accident against Oscar Gatto

So the prologue has started (which is longer than 5km so officially should be called a time trial, but who cares), the full starting order can be found right here: https://todaycycling.com/tour-de-suisse-2017-ordre-et-horaires-des-coureurs-du-prologue/