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Finally we've got time for the second season of Kingdom, Korean zombies

What is the appeal of doing that? I mean, I absolutely get the appeal of the Tatras, it is just gorgeous and I'd love to go there one day, but why go when there are thousands and thousands and thousands of others there so instead of overwhelming nature and peace you just see people waiting in line with you and probably tons of children crying "when can we go home" because they're getting tired?

Out of genuine curiousity: what is the appeal of 'fake gangster' kind of music/videos?

The corn threat is too much, hold on please instead of publishing these death threats.

First ever KTM win, first ever South African win at this level. What a race

I guess that will have to do.

What a race so far. Rookie Brad Binder leading the race on the KTM, ahead of Morbidelli. Meanwhile Zarco got penalized for Espargaro's mistake (wtf indeed), but still managed to hold on his third place ahead of Quartararo, so far.

Anyone else feeling like they're lost on Totallympics lately? I generally use it via the Unread Topics section, but it's just so full I generally see that and think "meh, forget it" and close Totallympics after a few seconds

Wow, helper Mads Pedersen sprinting to the win against the likes of Ackermann (yeah I'm a day late )

And his condition is mentioned as being 'good'. Now that is some awesome news if actually true (which does seem to be the case, although it would be nice to hear something official, meaning from his team).

Cool, now let's see if this will actually happen and won't be something like Asiavision which has been announced for years and never actually happened

Considering he's going to be burnt to a crisp, she's the smart one there. If going to the beach can be called smart anyway, all that sand getting absolutely everywhere. Yuck.

Excellent basic explanation. Pretty curious to see how strong the backup Mercedes cars will be after this Ferrari dropped down miles as soon as their cheating was uncovered/acted on last year.

Renault wins the protest against Racing Point, which loses 15 points and gets 400 thousand euros in fines for using their cars.

Anyhow, back to the main thing: apparently Jakobsen has had a five hour surgery overnight. There seems to be no brain damage, which is the most significant bit of news, and they're going to try and get him out of the coma today - hopefully that will indeed show a lack of brain damage. There are worries about the chest area (meaning the words of the race doctor of last night can be taken with a grain of salt, I believe she said there is no damage there), where significant damage is causing respitory problems. As a non-expert, that does sound like something that's easier to treat than brain damage though. For now things sound a little more positive than last night, although the situation still is definitely very serious.

Generally one waits until more is known about the condition of the involved people. I've seen plenty of very bad crashes both in cycling and motorsports, where replays were only done once the involved athletes were at the very least sort of ok.

Meanwhile Patrick Lefevere has basically called for Groenewegen to be arrested for attempted murder. Which, bad as Groenewegen's move was, is just idiotic to begin with - not in the last place because this happens so often in sprints, luckily almost never with these consequences, and when Lefevere's own riders do it and people get angry at them, he basically just tells everyone to shut up and 'this is part of racing' (which it shouldn't be).

Yep, although it's not as bad as the Giro d'Italia director after Wouter Weylandt's fatal crash, where they brought live footage from the helicopter above where you saw blood gushing out of his head (minutes after the crash, it wasn't an accidental image). But come on, have some sense.

No, you're understanding me wrong there. What I meant was that the UCI's reaction, within two or three hours after the crash, was filled with emotion and anger, you can sense the adrenaline the writer of it had. That's understandable, but I'd expect a federation to wait a little, at least go through the common decency of talking to both sides (in this case probably represented by their teams) and then releasing a statement. I am in no way defending Groenewegen's move there, I thought I had made that abundantly clear.

I wonder how many people voluntarily go and watch that knowing his life is still in danger. The TV director showing replays (multiple, from all kinds of angles) within minutes, while there were and still are fears for his life, was just disgusting. That person needs to be fired, if you don't know how to do a job (and it is a rather universal thing in sports to not show these kind of replays until more is known about someone's condition), do something else.

Understandable to react out of emotion and adrenaline, but a bit of a disappointment a federation does so (not the tweet, but the statement).

Plus 'his palate was crushed'. I did not even know that was possible, damn.

Only right thing the team can do for now.

Yep, this was sort of a Theo Bos in Turkey move.

Meanwhile both Groenewegen and the TV director should find another job for the next few years, absolute morons. Screw you both.