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Dutch Athlete of the Year: Mathieu van der Poel. Voting closed 25 minutes ago.

I have just never seen a finish like this in such a major race, what the hell.

When people celebrate extensively, they didn't need to give everything. He did

What the flying fuck was that

The finish could have been 20km earlier, it's not like Fuglsang has any sort of chance against Alaphilippe.

Nah, just a matter of going to Teide or some other magical, high altitude (and completely remote) place and he'll be back in usual shape for the Tour

If Sagan keeps this up, we might finally discover what he looks like with a regular jersey

Stupid little wall

Van der Poel didn't attack for 200km, a new personal best So he attacked 45km before the finish.

What a final of the Amstel Gold Race (women's race) Niewiedoma attacked on the Cauberg and managed to stay slightly ahead* of Van Vleuten in an epic final two kilometers *with some slight help from a motorbike being way too close in front of her, but still, she was simply better

A good day to everyone and if you have it, enjoy the extra nice food

Sri Lanka is next: at least 75 dead and hundreds injured in bombings in churches and hotels

Exactly (plus Korea?)

Holy crap, Jeffrey de Zwaan on the Development Tour today........ He started off with a pretty good match....followed by seven (!!) consecutive 100+ matches, most of which he averaged significantly higher Insane day

Aren't 'increases endurance' and 'delays onset of fatigue' kinda the same thing? And isn't GW1516 that potentially highly dangerous drug?

Now I'm interested.

Jumbo-Visma's team: • Primoz Roglic • Robert Gesink • Laurens De Plus • Antwan Tolhoek • Jos van Emden • Koen Bouwman • Tom Leezer • Paul Martens As has been known for quite some time, the Giro is Roglic' GC of this year and the seven others are there to support him (and I hope Gesink can get a bit of a free role).

Or.....plot twist...you did!

Yeah, we were at the Museumplein. Not a good place for someone who, for whatever reason, gets scared the living daylight out whenever a bit of fireworks explode unexpectedly. About the weather: come on, last year was horrible It was so hot and dry half the country had trouble with water. You know, not the kind of drought people around deserts have, sure, but enough to be rather annoying I like my summers at 20-25 degrees, fuck those weeks and weeks and weeks of neverending 30+ degree weather

I don't know where you are now but in the Netherlands we've been getting used to 8 months of summer, annoyingly I'm expecting the summer that started this week to once again last for half a year Followed by once again a bit long autumn and then, once again, about two and a half hours of winter. Also: King's Day in Amsterdam, I think it might come almost as close to hell for me as the one time I spent New Year's Eve in Amsterdam ("Let's go to Amsterdam! It'll be fun!", said my now ex-girlfriend....Worst. Idea. Ever.)

Oh come on, like anyone who spends as many hours a week on an internet forum as we do is a party person

That's something people knew as soon as the date was announced, I mean, we already know the dates for Easter and Christmas and Independence Days and King's Days for the next 10 years But yeah, internet problems on the other hand is something one just can't do anything about, sadly. Better postpone it a week than have a contest where a bad connection messed everything up Luckily I'm not much of a party person, so the national festivities and celebrations of 27 April are gonna be skipped by me anyway (even more so since it's in a weekend this year, and so I'll spend all the day watching sports ).

Oh no No idea if I'll have time next weekend, today was such a perfect day (Easter weekend, so nothing going on basically). Too bad.

Sounds like we're in need of some Irish emergency help.

Booooo! Clear your entire schedule for those minutes, you might post the deciding votes, it's the most important thing ever.