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Plus he had to change his plans because of Gaviria's brave but futile attempt

Hard crash for Sverre Lunde Pedersen during a bike training: ruptured spleen and fractures in both hands...hopefully he'll end up alright.

I'd find it hard to believe Great Britain won't win a medal. If there's one nation where the years before the Olympics in specifically track cycling mean nothing..

Can I enter Netherlands A, Netherlands B and Netherlands C for the men?

Not very succesful conversation attempt between the Dutch commentators (one Belgian, one Dutch - Karsten Kroon) when passing a motorcycle circuit: "Do you have a motorbike at home?" "No." "Ok." "You?" "No." And quiet for three kilometers This came after 20 kilometers (at least) of talking about who has the most hits on Google when searching their name

Sure, the women's game might be less developed at the top and so the difference might be less pronounced, but doesn't that also work the other way? I mean, one might assume the world's number 19 in the women's game is relatively worse than the world's number 32 in the men's game. Take something like football as an example, where in many national competitions the differences between the top and bottom in the men's game might be pretty significant, but not extreme, whereas in the women's game high scorelines appear way more often. Edit: Ah right, the women's tournament has that weird thing with a 'strong group' and a 'weak group', that might save them a little...

Meanwhile one of my colleagues came up with "My wife and I won't get vaccinated...nope, we're not going to do that, we don't believe in it." Which sort of sucks. One of my favourite colleagues, but this kind of reasoning....ugh. Quickly changed topic before I accidentally said something I shouldn't say

They do, but "anyone who wants to get a vaccine, will have had the option to do so by ...." has changed from "by June" to "by July" and might keep moving and moving back because of the 10 million exceptions they are making I get that certain groups should go first, but if you have too many of those exception groups, the whole process goes sloooooooow before you finally reach a stage where any random person who wants a vaccine, can come and get a vaccine. I believe we're not at the stage where people born in 1962 or so can come and get a vaccine, maybe next week it's 1963's turn and so on.

You mean this year?! Lucky!

Absolutely. The difference is huge between my work laptop (no ad blocker and only decent browsing because the laptop is good, but the site is annoying) and my private laptop (ad blocker and smooth browsing). I still wish there was sort of a Premium thing on Totallympics: pay a small amount and in return, you get no ads anymore. I enjoy Totallympics a whole lot, it's absolutely no problem to pay a little (and help keeping it in the air) in return for having no ads. It's not like I ever click on ads anyway...

Meanwhile, the death toll has passed 100. Unsurprisingly with a large majority of deaths on Palestinian side.

Full potential for things to go very wrong again today. First off, a peloton on fire will have a bunch of sprints inside of it for sprinters to try and be at the front before the 200m 12% part in the finale starts, especially since that part is right after a sharp turn. This is already after another potentially dangerous roundabout, and is followed by a whole bunch of more dangerous situations. Dangerous corners, dangerous roads, dangerous stuff in the middle of the road (Dombrowski and Landa already fell victim to the organizers earlier this week, after all). Let's hope things go alright this time...and maybe they learned from earlier and made some changes.

Some performance by Ciccone as well...riding head-to-head against Ganna for a good while with his face in the wind, attacking all the time and still going up with the very best climbers of this Giro.....interesting

He might have a genuine shot at surpassing Bodrogi's career. Still a way to go of course, but so far so good

"Pink Remco: Evenepoel writes history and grabs the leader's jersey in the Giro" I am loving this

I can't remember Laszlo Bodrogi in pink so probably

Belgian commentator on Eurosport has been celebrating Evenepoel's pink since a kilometer before the finish, but it's going to be Valter

Gino Mäder with an awesome win for Bahrain-Victorious (large part thanks to Matej Mohoric' awesome work), the very next day after yesterday's drama Now it's a matter of seeing who got pink...it could be Evenepoel, but it might be Attila Valter @Vektor

Attila Valter is still hanging on with the best 15 or so.

Bernal on the attack, but this time He is there as well. In fact, He might be on the way to pink, unless Vlasov stays with Him.

George Bennett once again in trouble way too early.

Ah, Gene Bates apparently. I think he'll be heading home tomorrow. https://www.greenedgecycling.com/team/gene-bates/

Wow, what an idiot....apparently Matt White is not the one driving usually, so I'm curious who is.

Qhubeka manager Aart Vierhouten was doing a good job this Giro d'Italia, working with Nizzolo to come up with the helmet joke. Bit of an issue yesterday though...whoops (everyone involved is doing a lot better than the car, luckily). https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1392757596365508609/pu/vid/640x640/_bHPB_iCqEmHX5jW.mp4?tag=12

Sivakov is out too after his fall. Boy, who would have expected this kind of drama when having a stage where it's totally flat and basically completely straight for 160km after which the well-rested and nearly sleeping peloton has to go through a technical finale towards a bunch sprint !