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Could you add cross-country skiing to your list, por favor?

Ah, that slightly refreshes the memory and also reminds me why this probably won't be missed a whole lot in terms of overall quality

The whatnow?

Apparently a Chinese guy posted a 33.83 500m in Beijing (sea-level!) today (?) Could be Gao Tingyu, but not sure. @Vic Liu Could that be the name listed in 1st there? Just to clarify: 33.83 would be truly insane on a non-altitude track. Shinhama's 34.07 in Heerenveen is already considered an insane outlier...

Hello hello

At least Evenepoel's hard work paid out, they're not even making it a secret he was riding for Alaphilippe instead of Van Aert https://www.hln.be/dossier-alaphilippe-volgt-zichzelf-op-als-wereldkampioen/lefevere-geeft-opmerkelijk-interview-na-zege-alaphilippe-evenepoel-heeft-voor-julian-gereden~a09f3f3a/

For Stuyven in his home city Van Baarle First Dutch medal since Leon van Bon of all people 24 years ago.

Valgren and Stuyven going for silver.

And that's it for everyone not called Alaphilippe.

Meanwhile a little over 20k left and there's 16 riders left with a shot at the title. Probably a little less, assuming Van Baarle, Bagioli, Madouas etc are focussed on supporting their leaders.

Yeah, there already was barely any cyclist with a bigger celebrity status in Belgium (no matter the nationality) than Van Aert before the pandemic

And we've got a group in the lead with quite some potential in it Copy-paste from another place, which I assume is (at least mostly) right: Tratnik, Asgreen, Evenepoel, Bissegger, Demare, Roglic, McNulty, Cort, Haas, Declerq, Eenkhoorn, Swift, Hoelgaard, Cosnefroy, Erviti.

175k to go and the first three serious contenders for the title have opened the attacks already with Evenepoel, Cort Nielsen and Cosnefroy.

After Jason Dupasquier (19) in the Moto3 world championship and Hugo Millan (14) in the junior Moto3 world championship, we have lost another rider, another teenager Dean Berta Viñales was involved in a hard crash in the first race of the World Supersport 300 championship in Jerez and passed away shortly after, only 15 years of age. Cousin of MotoGP rider Maverick Viñales, for what it's worth. All other track action (WSSP and WSBK races) for today have been cancelled, obviously.

And I believe Maldives was unfortunately missing.

Vos with silver behind an Italian for the 12668th time Too bad, Vos is basically the only rider in this Dutch team I'd have liked to see win after this umpteenth fiasco Whatever happened, Vos is basically the only one in the team not to blame for her not winning, oddly enough.

This has a thrown away gold medal written all over it again for the Dutch women What a bunch of.....not great tactics.

Blanka Vas is riding a fantastic race as well @Vektor

The plan was to give all of them a chance to get away until roughly 1,5 lap before the end. If none of them did, it'd be everything on Vos. But yeah, it's the Dutch women's team. I can hardly see anyone working for anyone else unless they're actual teammates (vdBreggen, vdBroek-Blaak, Pieters and Vollering vs Van Dijk and Brand, with Vos and Van Vleuten being the lone wolfs).

To be fair, that's not that new. She already focussed 99% on time trials before the Olympics and the Olympic time trial was her main career goal, but something about no Austrian quota there and a quota in the road race led to her doing only the road race. She's not made a secret (even before the Olympics) out of simply being very uncomfortable with riding in a peloton, which is why she didn't do a ton of road races in the first place. She had six international competitions in 2019: five time trials and one road race, which was the Austrian national championships she won and in which she probably didn't spend much time - if any at all - in a large group. Last year she had two time trials, a 7-day stage race, another time trial and one more road race and before Tokyo she only had the Austrian champs (ITT and road race). It's not new, and she's not making a secret out of why it is.

Three road races, nine medals....nine different countries

USA's Kaia Schmid and Great Britain's Zoe Backstedt, who is at least twice Schmid's size, for the junior women's world title.

Dutch commentators were wondering how much of a junior team they'll be able to build

Mixed feelings about Baroncini winning: Cool to see an Italian win by actually winning this time, after the 2019 debacle Sad to see he stayed ahead of the group, because Eritrea's Biniam Girmay pulled yet another fantastic sprint out of his legs and took silver I mean, that is definitely awesome and no doubt historic, but it'd have been even more awesome and historic if Baronicini wasn't ahead of them Obviously it's not at all like Girmay is a huge surprise or anything, he has shown for quite a while already that he is a seriously talented rider worthy of riding in the World Tour, but it's still really cool to see Eritrea get a medal. And just to clarify: Baroncini absolutely deserved the win, that was perfect timing!