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Greipel celebrates too early

A team almost entirely consisting of rookies, that's a gamble they're taking to try and take down Netherlands and Argentina..

Belgian commentators have resorted to describing what they had for lunch earlier today, "because what else do we have to talk about in this stage?!"

Reporter to Cavendish: "You think you can keep wearing this green jersey until Paris?" Cavendish: "No way, when we're in the mountains we are all in the groupetto in the back and Sagan is picking up 20 points in the lead group. The green jersey is way out of reach for all of us. Sagan will always win the green as long as they have these intermediate sprints."

Argentina women's team: Jugadoras convocadas: 1. Belén Succi 2. Florencia Mutio 3. Agustina Habif 4. Florencia Habif 5. Victoria Zuloaga 6. Julia Gomes Fantasia 7. Pilar Campoy 8. Rocío Sánchez Moccia 9. Carla Rebecchi 10. Delfina Merino 11. Noel Barrionuevo 12. Martina Cavallero 13. Gabriela Aguirre 14. María José Granatto 15. Lucina Von der Heyde 16. Agustina Albertarrio

This stage:

Today is the perfect example: long stages are horribly boring, usually.

Voeckler has been on screen for 2 minutes and there we go, the Dutch commentators telling the story of his father. Every. Year.

Titi is not impressed.

Why on earth do organizers think it's a good idea to have 200km+ stages in a Grand Tour?

Armindo Fonseca has escaped the peloton in the first meters.....and got nobody with him, so he's now going solo in a 223km stage Already 11 minutes ahead of the rest

Apparently these are the lifters from Oceania: Men: Samoa - Nevo Ioane (62kg category). Australia – Simplice Ribouem (94kg category). New Zealand - Richard Patterson (85kg category). Fiji - Manueli Tulo (56kg category). Kiribati - David Katoatau (105kg category). Nauru - Elson Brechtefeld (56kg category). Women: Samoa: - Mary Opeloge (75kg category). Australia: - Tia-Clair Toomey (58kg category). New Zealand: - Tracey Lambrechs (+75kg category). Fiji: - Apolonia Vaivai (69kg category). Solomon Islands: - Jenly Wini (58kg category). Lifters receiving Tripartite Invitations are as follows: Cook Islands: - Luisa Peters (+75kg category). Marshall Islands: - Mathlynn Sasser (58kg category). American Samoa: - Tanumafili Jungblut (94kg category). PNG: - Morea Baru (62kg category). https://www.reddit.com/r/weightlifting/comments/4r4toe/oceania_olympic_representatives_team_lists/

[hide] Knockout Round June 25th - July 10th, 2016 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final, winning Nation will become Men's Football UEFA Euro 2016 Champion Semifinals Central European Summer Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 July 6th 2016, h. 21:00, Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon Portugal 0 1 Wales July 7th 2016, h. 21:00, Stade Velodrome, Marseille Germany 1 3 France [/hide]

Germany men's team: Australia men's team: Mark Knowles, Jamie Dwyer, Eddie Ockenden, Fergus Kavanagh, Chris Ciriello, Simon Orchard, Glenn Turner, Matthew Swann, Matt Gohdes, Tim Deavin, Blake Govers, Daniel Beale, Jake Whetton, Matthew Dawson, Andrew Charter and Tristan White.

Lashawn Marriet?

10.74 Gardner, 10.78 Bartoletta and Bowie, what a level +1 m/s wind, so this time it's way inside legal limits.

6 men have now jumped over 8.30m in the long jump final, wtf The record in one competition was 4 men and that barely ever happened...let alone 5...or 6!

Whole lot of big stuff happening in the past moments... 9.83 and 9.86 (legal) for Gatlin and Bromell, 10.74 (too much wind) for Gardner and Bowie. Felix wins the 400m in 49.68 even though apparently she's not fit yet. Meanwhile in Jamaica, both Thompson and SAFP pulled out of the 200m final. Apparently Thompson asked for a medical exception and could still be added to the team, but SAFP did not.

The Dutch men will have to do without their coach at the Olympics: Mitch Fenner, architect of the historic qualification, has passed away today

On to Angers tomorrow, where throughout history Belgians have won almost each and every time

Whoops, typo

Iceland lost, but the Icelandic "slow clap" in the stadium is 'destroying' the "Allez les Bleus!"

Eidur Gudjohnsen has come in for his 88th and last match for the Icelandic team, 20 years after he debuted by coming in as a substitute for his father. Legend

Anything is better than Italy - Spain yesterday by the way, what an incredibly boring match (if you're not Italian or Spanish of course)