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Awesome stage Pogacar and Vingegaard were unreal on the Rampe, as someone specialized in analyzing climbs and efforts noted, it may be the best ever 2-minute effort in professional cycling, absolutely insane

Yeah, with a stage like yesterday they really missed out on trying to balance things. They made it so boring that people were just tuning out and you're not going to get viewers with stages like this, while at the same time making the peloton take it so easy that they're going into the - already somewhat unwise looking - last 20 kilometers absolutely hyper-energized. Yeah, that's going to go wrong....the main Dutch preview I read every morning was already quite clear about it yesterday before the start Loosely translated ('three out of three' points to the sentences before, where he was talking about Alpecin hitting two out of two):

Just caught up but what an event, with my highlight of course Laros' insane win (not just the fact he won, also how he did it) Awesome results in other events as well of course, from world records to discus throws that were arguably better than those in Ramona, especially Alekna throwing nearly 71 meters in a stadium....wow, I'd put that above the Ramona throws in terms of outright quality, super impressive

To think we could have had an amazing cobblestone stage if they'd gone the exact opposite way, or simply stay around Valenciennes and get some Roubaix sectors. But no, they want mass crashes.

And the expected hard crash at the finish, plus Meeus shortly before that. I mean, it's not like we didn't see this coming for the past 40km...

Cool, YouTube, no more random horse nonsense, I might actually take some time to have a look at this after work today

Yeah, when will Pogacar finally win anything?

I'd say the start time of a stage makes more sense as deadline? Anyway, a bit late indeed I think... If anyone still is interested in joining (45 minutes or so left), there's also the simple pick'em format we played some years ago. Simply pick a rider, and their position in the stage is your points, fewer points = better (and you can only pick each rider once). Nobody needs to organize anything, everyone just keeps track of their own points 1. Dylan Groenewegen Also, I'd have liked to help you earlier, but kind of forgot and now it's rather late...my apologies!

Completely missed it, but one of the most influential figures in Dutch ski jumping, mostly known for his bigger roles in FIS though, has passed away last month. Horst Tielmann. That hits a little close to home, I believe my dad might still have his phone number from when he was trying to get some help and information from the Dutch skiing federation for Bruna... https://www.fis-ski.com/ski-jumping/news/2024-25/former-coc-coordinator-and-fis-honorary-member-horst-tielmann-passes-away Edit: just found some email conversations with mister Tielmann, we were trying to find some places to join some trainings in Germany, where he was working.

Awful day in general, can't remember the last time we had three actives athletes being mentioned in the same day here....because 20-year old motorcycle racer Borja Gomez, leader in the European Stock Championship (part of the JuniorGP paddock), has died today after a crash during free practice for this week's races in Magny-Cours

Because it's football news...

Portuguese football player Diogo Jota, aged 28, has apparently died - together with his brother - in a car accident in Spain. Recently won the Premier League title with Liverpool and the Nations League Final with Portugal..

Go to a Brazilian pizza restaurant and they'll put literally everything the kitchen does and doesn't have on it

OK, but then in return I'll cut it when it's on my plate

It is 100% a matter of personal taste Although that specific combination doesn't sound appealing to me, no.

And for any kind of recipe or meal there is basically just one super easy rule, especially if you make it yourself: make it the way you like it, who cares exactly how that is? If I have a recipe I love, give it to you and you make it with olives....sure, you're absolutely insane, because olives are utterly disgusting, but you know, you're eating it, so go right ahead and make it however you want it

To be honest, making a change to an Italian recipe you're going to make, serve and eat yourself, mentioning it to Italians and see them get crazy mad because that's not how their grandmother's grandma used to make it, is one of the most fun things in the world of food Something I often think of when breaking a couple of hands of spaghetti in half before putting them in the boiling water.

Wouldn't be surprised. Oh well, it's not like she doesn't ask for it.

Considering there are a billion kinds of cheese, I have no idea exactly how to translate everything, but I believe what I put on my pasta is a kind of Gouda cheese (the 'young' one, not the 'old' cheese, yuck). Coincidentally we recently had parmesan cheese on pasta, but that was rather disappointing, it tasted so....meh. Do you actually use parmesan though? Or that kind of Kraft-from-a-bottle stuff?

I'm glad nobody is writing it 'Parmesian', which is what I often seem to hear in TV shows for some weird reason

Nice

Sure! Tour de France without a wide selection of prediction contests and pools and stuff is no Tour de France

And it's done, 1-0 Palmeiras

Well deserved, honestly, their fans have made quite the noise and party (just like those of I believe Esperance de Tunis and Wydad Casablanca, they were awesome too)

Watched all 48 group match highlight videos today, it was surprisingly entertaining (and of course anyway it's nice to see rare matchups, much more interesting to see some Argentinian, African or Asian team play a big European team than the 105th time of Juventus - Real Madrid or something) Now the knockout phase has started with Palmeiras - Botafogo, vamos Botafogo And, as my parents in law have taught me very clearly when they were here some months ago, their favourite saying: Palmeiras não tem mundial