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Which of course he blamed on everyone and their mother, instead of on his own failure to brake after the finish line.

That's mostly something from up to 15 years ago or so, when it was largely a Spanish party (and the Giro was often an Italian party). 'Host broadcast coverage' isn't that much of a thing nowadays anymore. In the Giro and Tour, coverage is available basically from the start of every single stage, whether you and I can see it or not...it is there (and through the likes of Eurosport/GCN, it can be watched). Vuelta coverage simply doesn't exist for the first large part of the stage, which is just nonsense nowadays.

Cool If you're ever in roughly the area north of the line Amersfoort - Apeldoorn and you see someone cycling on a bright green Cube mountainbike, chances are it's me (chance is even bigger if a smaller person on a white Cube mountainbike is accompanying said person and both are wearing black/red/blue )

I'd say it is might be a bit unfortunate if a children's event is where one has to get their sports successes, but a win is a win, so yeah

Now that you mention it...did they even have medal ceremonies? Bit of a shame it wasn't part of the program at all, but if they'd do it the next day like the weird trend seems to be, it doesn't really matter anyway since the emotions aren't fresh anymore anyway then I do agree the championships in itself was, as per usual, a fantastic week of athletics

Then we finally go full-on into the winter season though

Jesus goddamn Christ this Radzi on Eurosport is annoying, interviewing the British 4x400m men's team right when they very clearly want to watch their teammates, the women, race their final. Have some freaking sense for sports man, you moron.

Holy hell

Now that's a nice stat. And India becomes .... nation with a gold medal?

And not even the adrenaline-boosting ones

Madness in the streets of Manama.

How does an event where one can easily win while barely being able to jump over the rather low obstacles still keep it's right on the Olympic program? If any event must be cut, surely the steeple is high on the list? Just to clarify: I don't want any event to be cut

Just realized the 'otunekko' I've been hearing at the end of commercials on Eurosport all week is actually someone apparently saying "Outrun your echo" Whoops.

Meanwhile it's vs with weapons, which is not normally a good thing, but luckily this time it's slightly friendlier

Moraa Awesome final, the last session is off to a good start

Mu thinking it's race walking. You can run and try to go fast, you know

A quick YouTube search suggests in 1983 it was decided quite early indeed, like often is the case in the usual African 'up the pace higher and higher and wait for nobody to be left' races Definitely wasn't a thrilling final with a decision in the last meters like today

Ah, a Dutch forum is not the only place where Jakob Ingebrigtsen is seen as a bit of an act, I see

Ingebrigtsen with the win, very cool sprint with Katir though. Grijalva just outside of the medals

Since when is the Giro the weakest? They definitely have their organizational issues, as is typical in many Italian races, but in terms of organization....Vuelta is the one that is mostly staying behind. At least we are sort of out of the era with a billion _______/ stages, but for example TV coverage (often in typical quality) not even being available at all for the first 1-2 hours of most stages...come on, it's not 2001 anymore Even the Giro has full coverage nowadays.

Unlucky today, poor organization yesterday.

Definitely better than the first option, although we're now getting to the point where it might be better to just not have any time gaps at all. It is slightly worrying that this is becoming more and more of a trend in cycling.

Super wet in Barcelona, so they came with a safety solution: times for the GC will be taken at the top of the Montjuic climb, around 3.5km before the finish. However, bonus seconds will count both at the top of the climb and at the finish. This is going to make things more dangerous, but I guess that's what they want. The issue is mostly the way to the climb: full of roundabouts, and narrow roads with lots of turns, where there will now be basically a massive sprint right through all that to get to the foot of the climb in an even better position. Smart! We're now going to get this mix: - Riders who sprint to the top for the bonus seconds and points - Riders who sprint to the top because for them, that's where the finish is - Riders who throw themselves downhill to go for the stage win and will have to pass riders who don't care anymore Can't go wrong.

Tamirat Tola with the most expected DNF for a world champion ever, although it's somewhat surprising (and certain people aren't going to be happy with it) that he kept going for that long

Looked like contact with Kiplagat, who seemed injured from then on.