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150k to go, seems about time for Evenepoel to start his solo attack.

Nah, the French never strike or protest

Yep, nobody wanted to really try and work together, including teammates. And then Bego did what she was expected to do after her recent results: simply be impossible to catch (especially by a sort of unwilling group) Great job by the French.

Also, unbelievable Mohoric doesn't want to ride tomorrow....he would without any form of doubt be one of the absolute top favourites for the world title with his technical skills...

Bego was a level too high for the rest, and the rest just flew the flag of surrender with 15km to go, so yeah, that results in a clear gold for Bego

Are we sure the British girls actually want to win this? So far they are handing it over to Bego on a nice golden plate.

Later, yes, but at first she was busy gesturing towards the French girl in her wheel when they had split off for a bit from the rest of the group

Ferguson either doesn't seem to get basic tactics (obviously the French in her wheel isn't going to help her chase down another French) or doesn't know there's someone ahead of them

They've entered the last lap and Glasgow's summer has started, it is absolutely pouring down (meaning a group has even less of an advantage over a lone rider) Julie Bego of France with a very serious attack for a few kilometers already, she's looking strong.

Damn I would take any non-lethal rainy day over that

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Japan definitely looks like the highest quality team of all here. Their goals are fabricated nicely, with good and efficient attacks, whereas many of the other goals are somewhat coincidental, lucky, silly, etc. So far I'd say they are the favourite, besides England I guess?

Spain with a classic schoolyard goal* for 4-1 *ball lands in a group of players, everyone tries to kick towards it and coincidentally the one that hits it kicks it roughly towards the goal

Forgive me if I'm wrong and getting people confused, but wasn't he the one who years ago basically wanted to hold up his hand for billions and billions of EU euros without serious conditions (but then eventually of course needed to accept some serious conditions and get his own country's finances somewhat in order)? I know the whole thing was super complicated, so again: never mind if I'm wrong, also since there isn't really a short explanation of the whole thing available online from what I saw in a quick search

Wait, the only way to qualify for the Olympics is through the Nations League and reaching the final there? Hadn't noticed how tiny the Olympic event actually is...

UEFA teams got more than 60% of the total possible amount of points, it's not like UEFA teams could have gotten 12 (teams) x 3 (matches) x 3 (points) = 108 points in total with matches like Sweden - Italy or Netherlands - Portugal Not a big deal of course and still a nice comparison, just thought it'd be worth a mention.

And that's it, Germany is out as well. What a performance by Morocco to put themselves in this position, but they can thank Colombia and Korea as well for keeping Germany to a grand total of 1 point in those two matches

Right now Morocco and Colombia.

South Korea goes 1-0 up against Germany, which was then (virtually speaking) out of the tournament, but has now equalized after Popp was being defended rather....unfortunate by the Korean defenders.

Right, Tanfield is up on his feet. That was scary for a bit there.

Oh wow, massive crash for the third Brit coming out of the last corner (seems to have been Tanfield), who is not looking good...

Right, here we go with the 90% gold medals

Shockingly bad ride by the Italian top team.

That would be a major first, since it is absolutely far from the first time African/Eritrean athletes have been denied entry to the UK for whichever sports event... Either denied or incredibly delayed.

Right, some updates: Girmay is reported to have a visa, but won't race because of an injury of last week's Donostia Klasikoa. Berhane has a visa and will race Sunday. Tesfatsion has a visa, but will not race due to a knee injury. Mulubrhan's situation is not yet clear.