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'Different teams' isn't that much of a thing as people often like to believe at world championships. At least not when seeing national teams as by definition being different teams. A Belgian and a German can be closer teammates at world championships than two Spaniars, to give one nation that's famous for riding against each other as example. Roglic wasn't going to win a sprint against Van Aert, possibly Alaphilippe (if they had caught him) and Kwiatkowski, all he could have done was help his teammate who did have a quick sprint. He just didn't have anything left in the tank anymore, nearly had to let go at two short attacks and his sprint was barely a sprint anymore, so it's only logical he didn't manage to pull on the lead for Van Aert.

Belgian federation's president is a little salty as well, although in his case it's because he hoped for more instead of less for Van Aert Luckily there's also Johan Bruyneel.

Everyone, take a breather today, because it's going to be madness from tomorrow on I don't believe it's correct, since I think 2 November is the first day without a WT race after tomorrow, but still.

Cool to see some familiar names there like Eugen Wacker, Adrien Niyonshuti, Dan Craven and Elchin Asadov, who went into the attack a little bit today if I'm not mistaken But yeah, not surprising about Froome, before his magic appearance at the Vuelta he was just not very good

What a win, after recently losing his dad. Very much a deserved champion, and this time definitely one we are going to see a lot in his rainbow jersey.

Oh well, doesn't look like Roglic had anything left in the tank anyway.

Titiphilippe

At this point Roglic really should have been going all out for Van Aert...

Van Aert looks like they started 2km ago.

Let's go Nibali

Pogacar on a solo, roughly 35 guys in the chasing group including basically all of the main favourites.

Meintjes in the group of dropped riders in order to stay invisible.

And DNF.

Since there wasn't enough going on yet, an old new war is heating up.

Yeah, as soon as the dates and route were known, I don't think anyone expected to actually have every climb in the race It's the Giro, that's how it goes.

Whoopsie.

Right, Lutsenko's DNS is due to a positive test. No, not that one, just the COVID-19 test.

There you go, Grosu in the attack.

During the neutralized part 20 extra euros were matched on Lutsenko, huray!

DNS for Natnael Berhane because of visa problems. Which is rather sad by itself, but even more so now: he raced just last week...in France, and now such a short bit away he can't even start.

Grosu can suddenly do everything lately, who knows I missed it, but apparently Meintjes placed an attack in I believe the Tirreno earlier this month

And there we go

Meanwhile the first competitions in months have been held, but the Chilean races obviously only had Chilean athletes this year, so they're not that interesting sadly.

Aaaaand we're live Go Nibali (and The Luts, if nothing else)

To be fair, it does seem like most countries are testing a whole lot more (and not only testing pretty sick people anymore), which obviously leads to way more cases.