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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.

Kelderman's team has broken Almeida....after which an out-of-this-earth Rohan Dennis has broken Kelderman. Jai Hindley is incredibly strong.

Valverde +0:51 Dumoulin +0:51 Formolo +0:51 Martinez +4:29 Vlasov +4:31 Pinot +9:56 Ion Izagirre +11:12 Froome +11:12 Woods +18:29 That was stage 1.

Incredible first stage, what a war already! And my predictions are an absolute and total disaster

Imagine getting screwed for 8000 euro by Ben O'Connor of all places.

Chris quietly optimistic Froome is nearly being dropped from the peloton which still counts at least 50+ riders at the start of the day's last climb.

And Tratnik wins, gambleSlovenian cheers Riders in the last year of their contract strike again

Not bad.

Not really though. The Vuelta has a strong field in terms of GC riders, the Giro has a decent field but with Yates and Kruijswijk out one can forgive the field for not being as strong as it could be and with Ackermann, Bennett (Vuelta) and Demare (Giro) the world's best sprinters are in them. The likes of Van der Poel, Van Aert and Alaphilippe were in the classics which is by far their strongest point anyway. All together, it's just not really noticeable that the peloton is a bit stretched.

Dani Martinez looks hurt after a fall I hope he can get back on his bike, but fear either a DNF today or DNS tomorrow..

Historic moment: at this very moment, two Grand Tours are being held, the Vuelta has started.

In February it was Gaviria and his leadout Maximiliano Richeze who tested positive. Now Gaviria tested positive again and after 50km or so....DNF Richeze.