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Heroic solo brings Pogacar to the podium, what a ride

What an attack by Pogacar.

Valverde Pogacar is opening a full blown attack on the podium

Vino seems to be playing Pro Cycling Manager today.

Today's stage is live in it's entirety (the 3rd or 4th of those I think), let's go Movistar and Astana, make some war I hope Roglic wins, but I hope that comes after a serious fight today, the last chance for anyone to make this Vuelta exciting in terms of the GC fight

Great, let's see if I can manage to watch live this time so I can bombard the thread with n00b questions again

Just to make sure I get it right, semi finals today start at 14:00 CET? Watching all these different sports is confusing, I just now realized there's no finals at all today

If I'd call that 'hope' (no really, after watching cycling for around 20 years of my 29 year life, I'd really really like a first Dutch world champion in easily my entire lifetime) Seriously though, yes. He destroyed Trentin twice on a similar finish in the Tour of Britain this week, but I don't think Trentin is on the level of the others on a finish like this. Besides, those wins could end up being his undoing: he wasn't very impressive in the weeks leading up to Britain, but now he has placed all his cards on the table right there, which might be too early.

I do hope Sagan gets in full top shape again by the way, imagine the battle on the final little climb of the WCh with a full-powered Sagan, Van der Poel, Alaphilippe, Van Avermaet, Bennett and whatnot

Nobody in that whole group wanted to work with each other. Really, it wasn't something against Sagan, it wasn't something against Alaphilippe, it wasn't something against Van Avermaet....it was just a few of the best guys who all refused to work together out of fear, and Matthews used it perfectly. It's really not like Sagan was a victim or something, he was just as 'guilty' as the others.

People tried to beat Slovakia, but Slovakia said 'NOPE'

Will there be a live stream available?

They didn't join him, he joined them (Alaphilippe, specifically).

This Ben Christopher is not very familiar with women? Says it appears to be red food coloring, turns out to be menstrual blood. 'Lol'. And yeah, the non-American-but-everywhere-problem of people not vaccinating their children annoys me to no avail. It's not even about one's own kids, they're threatening all the kids their kids come in contact with and so on.

It does depend a little on the situation. Steven Kruijswijk crashed while being nearly sure of the Giro win a few years ago, and his opponents definitely didn't slow down. However, I've got no problem with that: he crashed because of his own mistake and staying on your bike is simply part of being a road cyclist. It's a different thing when you lose time because some people in front of you fell and you just got held up.

Not only American, don't you worry. This whole game is a pretty big middle finger towards women though, but above all: all those people taking it way too serious. Of course Hasbro doesn't want to shine a light on any problem, they want to come up with something they know will stir up discussion because that sells better.

That too, but going at more than 2km before the finish was just way too early from all of them..

Alaphilippe opening the war way too fast made Matthews be able to come back and win.

Alaphilippe, Sagan and Van Avermaet going to war

9k to go in Quebec, Evenepoel has dropped off a while ago, I guess he'll be content with only winning on Sunday

Just saw it's not even four months ago when Roglic had a mechanical or something, and guess who immediately went to the front and started pulling pretty damn strong? Yeah, Movistar

Yep, instead of allowing riders to get back behind the cars, the judges (who seemed to be completely absent) should have just sent those cars away like normally when two groups get close together. Movistar was once the 'victim' of it, although the situation in 2013 was pretty different. I forgot exactly how, but saw, read and heard it earlier today and I remember thinking "yeah, that's indeed pretty different"

Late to the party, but that Spain - Australia semi and Argentina Not like I've been following them through the years or something, but I find it really awesome to see someone back in the final after 17 years (and 15 years after already winning Olympic gold), legend

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According to Movistar they had already planned it at that moment on the course. Thing is, Movistar is sort of known for dirty tactics, their history doesn't work in their favour so to speak.