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I see it's not posted here yet but together with Melichar, Swiatek is also in the doubles semis

When will there be an actual serve clock and/or when will it actually be enforced? Half the time I skip 30 seconds after a point and they're still not serving, I thought the serve clock was supposed to get rid of that nonsense... I noticed in the women's tournament it doesn't seem to exist at all. The serving player just says "sorry, wind", catches the ball and goes again

I don't think anyone - riders, team managers and fans - is expecting the full course to be done as planned

This genuinely makes me wonder how old you are now. Like, 'when I'm 56', is that a far away thing or is that secretly already in 2022 or something?

A playlist is in the making

[hide] Women's Singles - Semifinals October 8th, 2020 4 Players, 2 Players will qualify for the Final Date & Time (GMT +2) Player 1 P1 P2 Player 2 October 8th, 15:00, 2020 I. Swiatek 2 0 N. Podoroska October 8th, TBA, 2020 [4] S. Kenin 1 2 P. Kvitova [7] [/hide]

Since going pro, that is.

Meanwhile the Brabantse Pijl is starting to explode (I won't spoil it in this thread of course), wait a few minutes guys

Oh well, some things are part of life...extra weird GPS results and bad TV directors when in Italy, terrible image quality when in Spain, seeing every castle and every small ruin when in France

Oh and with this hard downhill coming up and it being all wet, we can already cross out Kelderman in the top-10..

Jesus, normally Ganna would have been one of the weaker climbers in the lead group against the likes of De Gendt, Conti, Hagen and Puccio and now he's doing this New Dumoulin in the making, magically going from superb time trialist to being an even better time trialist and being one of the strongest climbers?

Dear lord Ganna is good

Commentator to co-commentator Karsten Kroon: "I'm getting an interesting bit of statistics Karsten, do you know who the last cyclist is to lead the King of the Mountains classification in all three Grand Tours, something Thomas de Gendt could reach today?" Kroon: "Uhm, no?" Commentator: "You're not going to believe it." Kroon: "Huh. Well then I hope De Gendt won't make it "

Popcorn is ready for tonight, only a bit more than ten hours to go. Let's go! Pace makers: Roy Hoornweg - 1500m in 3:55 Matthew Ramsden - 3000m in 7:52 Nicolas Kimeli - 5000m in 13:05

Could have selected him for TOISC as a sort of tribute if I hadn't made my choice earlier, but to be fair, I don't really think I know anything other than 'Jump' and that one is, in my opinion, just alright

WTF, completely missed it because work (stopped watching as soon as they finished), but a helicopter blew a fence over the road, knocking down Etienne van Empel and Luca Wackermann who were hit hard Van Empel finished, Wackermann didn't and even if he did, not even remembering that you're in the Giro is a rather clear sign you're not going to get on the bike tomorrow.

Not too good to see the doctor not stopping him, he looked like he was wobbling quite a lot and showed signs of a concussion..

Cyclists are known to be rather tough, as this shows once again

[hide] Men's Singles - Quarterfinals (Top Half Draw) October 6th - October 7th, 2020 8 Players, 4 Players will qualify for the Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Player 1 P1 P2 Player 2 October 7th 2020 [1] N. Djokovic 3 0 P. Carreno-Busta [17] October 7th 2020 [13] A. Rublev 1 3 S. Tsitsipas [5] Women's Singles - Quarterfinals (Bottom Half Draw) October 6th - October 7th, 2020 8 Players, 4 Players will qualify for the Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Player 1 P1 P2 Player 2 October 7th 2020 D. R. Collins 1 2 S. Kenin [4] October 7th 2020 [7] P. Kvitova 2 1 L. Siegemund [/hide]

Awesome, Operation Water Bottle in the Neutral Zone went rather well

How many participants do we have and how many of them picked Geraint Thomas to win and/or finish on the podium? Purely out of curiousity now that he's out of contention

So Thomas went up the Etna with a fractured pelvis

I guess it's not much of a surprise anymore, but DNS for Thomas today.

It's raceweek The classic mass starts on Saturday will be on a new track layout at the local park in São Carlos (Damha). The sprints and the freestyle interval races will be at the same tracks as the past four times these distances have been held there, which makes for interesting stuff in terms of comparing times - unless it's going to rain, which is a fairly real possibility.

Meh, when it's not Biathlon auf Schalke it's a lot less interesting. I mean, biathlon in Ruhpolding, that's...you know, normal