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Of all people, Adam Hansen - who is supposed to do freaking Iron Man's after this - leads the charge.

Why not just drive to 10km before the finish and go from there? It's not like the end result is going to be any different

Which is awesome. At least I'd find it awesome, I remember how excited I was when Olympia's Tour (an U23 race) had a stage finish in my little home town (and a year later even a stage finish, a whole time trial and a start!), roughly 15 years ago Jukka Vastaranta won the sprint, I see Matti Breschel, Niki Terpstra, Thomas Dekker (lol), mountain king Kenny van Hummel, 2016 sudden surprise Sergey Firsanov and a year later among others one of my all-time favourites, Robert Gesink in the results, cool

I'll have time to listen tonight, but I can almost guarantee I've heard more cringe-worthy things in a few years of following the Brazilian 'team'

I didn't mean to offend the place where they start, I meant that the start location seems to have changed 87 times today so I meant it like "Who knows where they'll start" Apparently by now it's sort of decided then, excellent!

And then the stage went back up to possibly 180km, then riders were standing around in the rain on the roads waiting for the bus of their teams to turn around and pick them up for a 100km stage and now it seems to be 112km from godknowswhere to probably the original finish location. What an epic mess. Also Wilco Kelderman's luck: finally he has a big leader's jersey and his one glorious day to show it is washed away in a sea of rain and chaos

Aaaaaaaaaand it's gone.

It's annoying, not shocking

Same here (this being a problem I mean), mostly at open sea. People here are fed up with these huge machines anyway, even more so since a while ago they built a complex with a good few of the huge ones, which could provide power for over 300.000 households! The number of households it provides with power?

I am now rather curious why I was mentioned in a post that's now ready to be deleted.

Positive test (no, not COVID-19 test, the classic one) for Matteo Spreafico. It came from samples on 15 and 16 October, the day before the time trial where he and his teammate blatantly broke the rules in front of the cameras and nothing was done against it

Accomodations are being readied, most likely delegations will get to know their destinations tomorrow

I'm especially meaning the 10km race walk.

Wow, that is some bullshit. Oh well, it's only the Commonwealth Games anyway, I can't be too bothered (is what I'm telling myself).

Alright, the voting window will close on Friday October 30th at the end of the day. Everything from there has moved up by one week, meaning the Grand Final will be held on Saturday November 14th.

Editing the dates is the very next thing I am going to do as of this moment.

APELDOORN - Personal issues have made for a bit of a delay to the Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2020, but we've received word that the ball is rolling once more, so to speak. Our neutral party has received the votes of the Dutch host delegation. A word from our president: "We'd like to extend our sincere apologies for the delay, sometimes life throws you a curveball and you just have to focus on more important things for a bit. This week we started to feel like the situation was well enough to give all songs a good listen and a fair chance to compete for points, and boy, they did. Some songs were more to our liking than others, some songs got better after more listens. Interestingly, the top-2 stood tall after the first round of listening and remained high above the rest, it was only a matter of careful consideration to choose the twelve and eleven points. Anyhow, we're happy to announce the Dutch votes have been sent and we are now entirely open for everyone else to send in their votes. A handful of juries have already done so, but a sense of honour and justice made sure nobody in the Dutch delegation opened any of the messages yet." A change in the schedule to give everyone appropriate time to send in their votes will be announced today, not to worry. From the entire Dutch delegation: "May we have your votes please?"

A nice 260km rest day tomorrow

Kelderman holds on and takes the pink, with Hindley in second!

Hindley would have had to do more though, probably.

Wondering if Hindley will attack or not, he seems stronger.

Looks like Kelderman has been mentally broken when his team's car drove past him towards Hindley.

Oh wow, Hindley with what's potentially an absolutely fatal rookie mistake at the intermediate sprint

Hindley almost crashing head-first into a stone wall because he's been fighting to get his jacket on for minutes now.

INEOS is riding Hindley towards the pink jersey.