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Whoops, Dumoulin losing 10 seconds or so with a wrong move.

Ganna going exactly as expected so far.

I wonder how many people get fooled into thinking he's got dozens of appointments in one day just by the idiotic way this little blog lists every single step Personally I've had an insanely busy day: - Get out of bed - Get out of my bedroom - Go to the bathroom - Do my business - Leave the bathroom - Go to the kitchen - Pick stuff to eat - Go to where I eat my stuff - Eat my stuff - Go back to the kitchen - Put my plate and utensils there And that's only the first half hour or so

Friends in 2018, relationship nowadays, apparently https://www.velonews.com/news/road/from-syria-to-innsbruck-cyclist-makes-remarkable-journey/

Right, that would indeed help quite a lot

There still are? No but of course I meant training infrastructure, support, equipment, all that kind of thing

Wow, I had not expected Porte to go back there. He's finally given up 100% now on winning a GT and is satisfied with having reached the podium in the TdF this year? And too bad to see such a talent like Pidcock go there, but yeah that was to be expected. Laurens de Plus was signed as well and, apart from Pidcock probably their biggest hit, Dani Martinez. Again a shame, I'd have liked Martinez to get chances to develop into a nice attacking rider instead.

Syrian guy is looking surprisingly good for someone who - most likely - has incredibly little in terms of infrastructure and facilities.

That's definitely the best Family Club location I've seen @brunamoura

Posting some pictures in a spoiler here would be great, then we Europeans can see them too without hassling with VPN's

The problem isn't CAS, the problem is whoever banned athletes without the full evidence and based on suspicions (even if they're pretty strong suspicions). Like a high judge in normal life, CAS is there to check if the rules of law were followed or not. Of course it's easier to just call everything and everyone corrupt when they don't decide in the way one wished, that's true.

Wow. I mean, everyone more or less expected she'd test positive again some day, but that's not at all what I expected a year ago

Good chance it was a hardware issue indeed, most likely something with the front tyre. One can have amazing or terrible bike-handling skills, when the front tyre goes at that speed going into a curve like that, you're just a passenger on your own bike, sadly

The knee looked incredibly bad, yes. At least pretty soon after the crash we knew she was 'ok' in the sense that she was conscious and talking to medical personell. So yeah, that's Olympic road race gold for Van der Breggen due to Van Vleuten's horror crash and world time trial title due to Dygert's horror crash (or at least in both cases with big help from the crashes, both Van Vleuten and Dygert were of course not entirely certain yet). Makes one wonder....Olympic time trial gold is the only thing missing in Van der Breggen's career now, should Van Vleuten and/or Dygert even start there? Seems rather risky

I knew I could count on you Dutch organizers will try their best to provide Slovakia with a nice location near Apeldoorn.

Could someone perhaps provide me with a first round only bracket without results? I'd like to watch spoiler-free highlights on YouTube (playoffs only) but have to know with which series to start

Yeah I don't see it happening in China, for these reasons (a World Cup biathlon in hotel rooms is going to be a bit of a challenge), and because China isn't allowing international sports events as far as I know yet (not counting eSports). But in terms of danger, I'd have no problem with going to China, less so than with going to Madrid, Berlin or Amsterdam.

Yes, Patrick had her moments. And no, I'm not saying she was an elite rider in the top American classes, but she wasn't worse than a good amount of riders who are there. It's not like all of her good results, because she had some, were due to luck, and people often forget how incredibly often she was crashed out of the race by others. No, I'm not a fan of her, but "PR crap for ignorants" as answer to saying she had her moments is just ignorant in itself De Silvestro had her moments as well, in between mostly hanging around at the back, accomplished more than Calderon and Flörsch (duh, she's rather much younger). Calderon has never really impressed me much, neither did Flörsch, although she is still young enough and has at least shown enough resilience and mental strength. In the end, it's not like every team can just choose everyone to race for them. I didn't check why De Silvestro wasn't in the car, perhaps she had other obligations or just wasn't an option for Porsche for other reasons than just performance. If Porsche was looking specifically for a female driver, they may have tried her, but in the end it's still simply a matter of trying to get the strongest and De Silvestro isn't one of the strongest overall riders. Calderon and Flörsch had nothing to do with Porsche at all, they were in LMP2 and so are just entirely out of this discussion anyway.

Most likely because their seats were already filled in. Suddenly coming up with comparing De Silvestro and Patrick out of the blue...it's a bit impossible to compare them. If you're talking about GT/Supercars racing, which Patrick hasn't raced in much, De Silvestro comes out on top (not too good, but at least pretty reliably in the back). Talk about NASCAR, which De Silvestro hasn't raced in, and Patrick comes out on top. They did both race in IndyCar and De Silvestro was simply mostly a backmarker, whereas Patrick had her moments now and then. Oh well, this was about Le Mans and both weren't in the picture there, so it's all a bit senseless. Like trying to compare Tony Kanaan and, say, Gary Paffett.

Why would that one be cancelled, and those in more risky areas wouldn't?

It should absolutely be part of it, but since people have managed to turn a children's party into something resulting in big online fights and people actually threatening with violence (in locations where children are celebrating, which they use as perfect opportunity to basically call these children every kind of monster they can think of), I think I'll refrain from doing so. It's a little sad, because it is as typical Dutch as things get, but that's life. I'll save everyone some kruidnoten though.

Yeah, I have never - nor will I ever - understood those people The only thing I can sometimes appreciate is the strong Brabant accent, which is basically the thing that makes New Kids sort of alright

You have spoken, or written, an almost forbidden word, I'm afraid

Wait, it should be music.

People outside the Netherlands know this? And yeah, that's stereotypical Brabant, so no thanks