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It's always a shock....if he runs

It is really taking quite long for the full schedules for a bunch of sports to be out....still waiting on beach handball and beach football, for example. Also not a word on 3x3 basketball so far, it seems. Surely it can't take long anymore for the full draws and schedules to be out, considering it'll start...well, next week?

Probably, but experience shows that some multi-sports events (hello EYOF) have been absolutely awful at this If Eurosport has the rights, they'll probably have everything on their online channels, excellent because it's always live and on-demand. If it's on YouTube, same thing. If it's on some EOC platform...start to worry. If it's on Olympics.com....start to worry as well, since they'd usually show a small selection and the user friendliness of their website in terms of finding stuff is nearly a crime. If here in the Netherlands we have to rely on the NOS (EBU partner)....yeah, no European Games for us. Barely anyone in the country knows it exists, so NOS is definitely not going to do more than 5-10 minutes highlights in the sports news at night.

Yep My way of following the Grand Slams until roughly the semis is mostly the check the results on a daily basis. Not because I wouldn't like to see the rest, but I simply would miss too much anyway because of work and such, so seeing 20% of the earlier rounds and missing the rest would just be frustrating (and I always forget reading up on the news) I see there's quite a lot of discussion about it. Good thing Sorribes Tormo and Bouzkova didn't make it that much further I guess, hadn't seen the video until now but they clearly didn't even care about the ball girl and only went straight for "disqualify them!"

Miyu Kato won the title in the mixed doubles, after apparently being DQ'ed in the women's doubles. I had missed it, but what on earth did her opponents in the women's doubles have to do with the DQ of Kato and her partner? Kato hit one of the ball girls, apologized and got a warning from the referee. That should obviously be that, but Sorribes Tormo and Bouzkova - who were in no way affected - somehow felt the need to protest it and get them DQ'ed? On what grounds?

There were some doubles teams that wanted to enter, but they had to swallow their pride and couldn't do it.

1976 - First sub-4:00 2023 - First sub-3:50 Took a good while

Wow, wow wow Hurta-Klecker with absolutely perfect work as well btw, 2:04 at 800m was asked, she delivered 800m in...2:04.00

@Monzanator @rybak and fellow Polish users: do you know where the official schedule/timetable for the Irena Szewinska Memorial can be found? The (I think) official website still only has last year's schedule on it, but it's next week already https://bydgoszczcup.pl/en/events/

It's hard to choose in Norway though, especially for those right under the absolute top. They've easily got 10+ athletes who could get a double digit amount of IBU Cup top-10's in a season. I guess there's more playing in the background behind his retiring that is not directly related to performances.

I'm not specifically a fan of Newgarden (but nothing against him neither), but that was great to see It would have felt a bit....'meh' if the ever-anonymous Marcus Ericsson of all places would be a back-to-back winner. Although he did try to make some media lines by going all "it was so unfair!". Yeah, duh, you felt it was unfair because you were in the worst possible position for a 1 lap restart.

Yeah that was....dumb. His race was incredibly impressive in terms of his speed and positioning, still finishing in 10th and even being in the fight for more in that chaotic last part despite a drive through...but yeah. Damn.

"Street circuit king" Perez making a bit of a fool of himself in Monaco

Yeah, it was hard to believe this was actually officially in Italy Even more awesome that Roglic managed to explode the way he did right there in front of basically an entire home crowd

Belgian's main cycling pundit: "It's not that Evenepoel might have won had he not gotten COVID-19, he would have won." https://www.hln.be/wielrennen/kijk-michel-wuyts-die-op-z-n-honger-bleef-zitten-in-deze-giro-is-duidelijk-remco-had-niet-kunnen-winnen-hij-had-gewonnen-br~adebcb17/

Looks like beach handball and beach soccer also don't have their draws and full schedules out yet.

It seems like there have indeed been changes. 3x3 basketball for example. Austrian's document: Official website: Apparently there still hasn't been a draw, so there's also no Wikipedia to help out

McNulty will absolutely get his chance though. Almeida isn't going to do every GC and Vine seems to be barely capable of riding in a straight line (so great at climbing, but a massive danger in anything else). McNulty is a potential GC podium rider.

Fun to rewatch this, Dutch commentator on Eurosport going mad at the moment the last split is known (Thomas 29 seconds behind Roglic and so basically decided), English commentators on Eurosport had no idea about the differences, seemed mostly oblivious to what was actually going on and kept with the default English Eurosport thing of "he is sufferent, he is now rrrrrrreally pushing hard!" What a final ride, damn. It doesn't make up for the near-total lack of action in this Giro overall of course, but at least - at long last - there were a few edge-of-the-seat minutes at the very end, what a finish

50% time limit That's just ridiculous, 30% should absolutely be enough for any healthy pro rider at this level. It's fine if it's hard. Oh well.

Fun fact: Laurenz Rex has a younger and also talented brother....called Tim. Yeah

So far we're only getting images of the first 10k, nothing of the climb, which is the only part everyone wants to see Hello, it's 2023. Use a drone or something, come on, at least give us something this Giro Edit: finally, we see someone on the climb!

Right, the climbing ITT today, with 5km at 15% or so, parts at 22%....this climb is an absolute monster. Can't really blame the riders for not wanting to attack at any moment, putting a time trial like this on the last real day is really just asking the riders to please take it easy until then (also so we can have a fairly close GC and thus all pretend it is an exciting race). It's an addicting sport though, so we'll keep watching even if for three weeks we have been watching to something that's less exciting than watching one's nails grow (which they did, because there were no nailbiting moments)

Almeida did a 5 second attempt, Thomas for a tiny bit longer and Roglic waited until the very end after holding on for a bit. Surely they're putting in the effort, but in terms of entertainment for the GC this is understandably quite widely seen as the most dull grand tour since the Froome-era at least...then again, one assumes the organizers were not going for an action-packed Giro but for something a bit easier to follow, considering they put almost every single hard thing in the last stages (which of course leads to waiting, waiting, waiting and more waiting). On the bright side, the near-total lack of GC action - maybe they're waiting for Rome to really try something, or after Rome? - is definitely being made up by some fun fights for the stage wins. Riders who do want to attack, the likes of Ben Healy and especially the absolute man of the match, Derek Gee. The Pinot vs Cepeda fight was quite fun to watch as well, just like Nico Denz' stages. Actually good that the GC teams and guys are still on wait-mode, because without it we'd probably not even have seen these fights for the stage wins.

Oddly, it seems that they have removed the file. Luckily I downloaded it earlier, but it makes one wonder whether there's some significant schedule changes