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Oooohhhh nooooo! The USA coverage on Peacock is being called by Bob Roll and Christian VandeVelde! My ears! My ears!

Saw this on the Twitter feed of Team Medellín: Lamentamos el fallecimiento del joven ciclista Jerónimo Jaramillo, integrante del equipo Itaca - Cobelén, quien sufrió un accidente ayer en el desarrollo de la etapa 2 de la Clásica de Rionegro. Enviamos un saludo sincero a sus familiares y amigos...

I'll put down De Lie for Saturday and Sunday.

Dear Aleandre Jr, Nicolas, and Stefano, I feel you. Your friend, Axel

He's apparently racing so much less, though.

In the States, where we have to use FloBikes for the Flanders Classics/Cyclocross World Cups, I wish I had someone who's up to to Hatch's standards, whatever you think of them. And don't even get me started with NBC Peacock's coverage. (And I can't use VPN, so no use suggesting that.)

It just means, "I'm feeling pretty good. Not at my best, for sure, but okay."

Expect to see everyone running disc wheels when 'cross starts this autumn.

I insist on calling it by its original name, La Roue Tourangelle Région Centre - Classic Loire Touraine Vignobles & Chateaux. Kids these days.

I wonder how those two Swedish guys riding for May Stars wound up on a Rwandan continental team. Maybe some Swedish sponsorship deal or something. The team website yields a "temporarily disabled" result for me.

That's a logical point of view (as is to be expected from you), but I believe that I benefit from it.

That's a common enough argument no matter what kind of copyrights are involved (films and television shows, video games, books, etc.). It doesn't really do it for me. I'm a professional writer, and copyrights are how I make my living. Thus, my policy on not violating them is comprehensive.

Then I follow it in any number of ways. Lots of races have twitter feeds now. Sometimes Cyclingnews has a ticker (though that's rare for races I don't have access to). And of course I read race reports in various venues, watch highlights various places (this is especially true of the French...

I guess that's true. But I'm a hard no on illegal streams or any other means of watching races in a way that violates the rights owners copyright.

My team scored points this past week with Simmons, Paret-Peintre, Asgreen, Jorgenson (if seventh in a TTT actually nets points), Steimle (same situation as Jorgenson, except DQS got second), Higuita, and Hodeg. This week, I have two riders starting in the Algarve (Pöstleberger and Arndt), five...