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Hopefully a step towards banning TT bikes altogether.

The second TT was also good, he was held back and was 30th or something? Vuelta one was not so good, but no Bardiani rider will ever show TT ability until they leave the team

He was decent last year too, and that was basically the first year he'd trained on a time trial bike. He obviously has a good engine so it isn't absurd that he'd get to a decent level on a good team.

Right so Piccolo is an idiot who got addicted to a glam lifestyle.

The lower end Italian biathletes have been flying this year, so it's not an enormous surprise that someone got popped. Carrara had been skiing at a ridiculous speed, too, so my money would've been on her. At the higher end, I think Wierer has been the one surpassing my expectations in terms of...

Methanol and letrozole is quite the cocktail, lots of respect for her.

From what I gather half the Royal Navy was born in Carlisle

Narrow, twisty, bumpy roads with cat eyes and just always slightly up or down. Should be a good watch, though!

Harder run in before Caerphilly Mountain and twice the length, but yes. To be honest, I think Caerphilly is the best way to enter Cardiff anyway, so it's nicely designed. I doubt we'll get a random Kooij victory

I feel like Lidl-Trek went from very focused squad-building, almost Quickstep like ability in classics (minus not having the aliens), to a bit scattergun in the hope of repaying Lidl and becoming the next superteam. Gee, Ayuso, Skjelmose (maybe even Ciccone) will all expect to be supported in...

A shame

I think it was likely a decision he toyed with last season, decided to give it another go, then midway through off season training/as it ramped up realised he couldn't mentally hack another year. Sometimes you have to try it before you really know. Visma do push their riders hard, after all.

I don't think they paid what they did for him to lead the Giro, but we'll see

Something remarkable is that only five stages have a climb Cat 3 or harder in the first third of the stage. I think only six have one in the first half of the stage.

The mountain stages are all as expected. I had hoped for a lot more from Stages 5, 8, 12, 17. The Andalo stage is maybe the most disappointing one, given the chance to make a genuinelu hard medium mountain stage after a simple unipuerto and before what is effectively a rest day. Worse than the...