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  1. heywoodu
    That would be very helpful indeed. I think I'll be able to give them a good listen later in the week mostly. I could now, but it's really a matter of 'moments' for me - right now I can, five minutes later maybe I'm very much not in the mood to pay attention, and so on.
  2. heywoodu
    Ah, paparazzi. The scum of the earth followed him. If he wasn't a cheating a-hole, one might feel sorry for him.
  3. heywoodu
    Bidard, Pellaud, Boaro, Padun, Benedetti, Rosskopf, Hansen, Clarke, Torres, Campenaerts, Narvaez, Richeze and Van Empel. Those are the names for today, for what it's worth. Hopefully we get some bigger names chasing them later on.
  4. heywoodu
    Apparently one team (not said which) asked the organizers to finish the Giro on Sunday, with a hilly stage, sprint stage, mountain stage and time trial to finish it off. They said no, for now, although I'm sure everyone is rather curious to see how the second rest day/mass testing day will go.
  5. heywoodu
    Yeah that last part is a bit unfortunate. It's no secret though, riders have mentioned exactly that (policemen, motorcyclists, even local guests in the same hotels and buffets). It's a shame there isn't much of a 'bubble' and if there is, organizers don't seem to care about keeping it. On the other side, I really don't understand teams using hotel food at all in these times. Most of them are fairly big professional teams, surely they can cook some pasta and stuff in their own trucks?
  6. heywoodu
    Sigh.
  7. heywoodu
    A whole bunch of motorbike riders around the Giro has tested positive. Sidenote: a lot of these stay in the same hotels as teams and local guests, with barely any COVID-restrictions in place around things like buffets. Talking about motorbike riders, the total moron/amateur who hit Viviani while for some inexplicable reason driving in the middle of the peloton has rightfully been kicked out of the race.
  8. heywoodu
    I have no idea, points and mountain classifications usually fly under my radar, I care more about who are the best sprinters (in sprint stages)
  9. heywoodu
    It was August Jensen, who apparently crossed the finish a while later on his own. That's good.
  10. heywoodu
    The crash, happening because Ackermann makes a dumbass move. Logically it's just waiting for him to be DQ'ed, but I wonder when something will actually be done. Every single sprinter does it..
  11. heywoodu
    Terrible crash just now in the sprint of the Scheldeprijs. One guy went down hard, I think someone else hit him on the head when he was down already. A few riders sitting and standing here and there, but one guy from the Riwal team was quickly shown just lying on his back motionless with medics attending to him and blood visible on his face... Replay showed his head hitting the ground and his helmet just 'jumping' away immediately, he was hit after that...
  12. heywoodu
    There is truly no challenge to Demare's reign as king of the sprints here, wow.
  13. heywoodu
    Oh I'm enjoying the marvelous commentary of Karsten Kroon and his co-host, the first 60km today was a mix of talking about this train and about which Dutch cookie they'd get in their snack bag today - the other co-host is Belgian and doesn't know most of them, apparently. Also, the Belgian guy said it was good Kroon's newborn baby has her mom's eyes, "because they are so beautiful", leading to a nice bit of awkwardness.
  14. heywoodu
    @Gianlu33 @Dunadan Any idea what's up with the train driving next to the peloton? The Dutch commentator duo has been wondering about it for over an hour now
  15. heywoodu
    Bit of a weird interview as well. It's like his image as a swimmer is more important to him than his actual family, even saying "so that my family and everyone will recognise me as a swimmer again". I really don't think being recognised as a swimmer again should be priority when you're screwing your marriage.. By the way, a quick Google search leads to his wife being Yuka Mabuchi...a Japanese diver?
  16. heywoodu
    I've seen a lot of Sagan wins, obviously, but holy cow this was one of his very best bits of cycling ever. Maybe Vlaanderen 2016 is above it, but that's about it. What a ride.
  17. heywoodu
    The event might have some delay. A private situation has come up today and I'm not sure how much I'll be able to focus on this at the very moment - which of course isn't the priority for me right now, but I do want to have the right mindset to deliver something good. I know I won't be able to listen all songs and vote right not, for example, that'd be unfair to the contest given that I'd probably rush through them just to get it over with.
  18. heywoodu
    Sagan and Ganna, now that's a lead group.
  19. heywoodu
    Geoghegan Hart screwing the lead group by joining them with his only 2:41 minutes behind the pink jersey.
  20. heywoodu
    Aaaand that's all of Jumbo out.
  21. heywoodu
    [hide] General 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Week 2 (Stages 10-15) Vincenzo Nibali Wilco Kelderman Jakob Fuglsang [/hide]
  22. heywoodu
    Yeah I was happy with being the only one who didn't have Thomas on the podium, but I'm confident that my 'Kruijswijk will win' pick isn't going to end up so well
  23. heywoodu
    Jos van Emden gave some examples of the Giro organizers being the Giro organizers: teams are in hotels with total public access, where the riders - who are supposed to be in their 'bubble', like they definitely were in the Tour - had to share the buffets and so on with local guests. The organization has a big role to play in this slowly going down the drain with two podium favorites and a whole team already out..
  24. heywoodu
    Speculations based on nothing I guess, since they also didn't withdraw the whole team fromt Gent-Wevelgem after the Tiesj Benoot situation last week. And there we go, a specific item saying Matthews won't start (which one can read as 'the rest will start'). https://teamsunweb.com/mm-giro/
  25. heywoodu
    To be fair, the Tour de France seemed to have been much stricter in terms of protocols and such, as for example shown by two positives meaning you're out, whereas in the Giro even four positives doesn't mean you're out unless you decide so yourself.
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