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Felt like the Dutch were too focused on trying to win multiple medals, and as a result missed out on gold

Thanks, it now says they are together at +1'26" at 25km to go

Shapira at 21 seconds and Plichta at 41, at 40k to go (according to the official website)

Yeah, my thought was he rides 2 GTs a year, top 10s in one of them. Then has 1 year where his shape is perfect and he does a Majka '14 and wins 2 stages and the KoM I think it's not the best case, but it would be a pretty successful career. Then the step down is the Barguil, where you still...

I think Majka is a reasonable case for his results if he went to be leader somewhere.

Gollum?

I guess in this race Kelderman is Sauron and Hindley is Saruman

Meintjies is looking good for the first time in years Edit: ah lol, its Pozzovivo

The Dutch have 2 riders who can ride the entire peloton off their wheel I think the only solution to make the women's WC interesting is to make the courses less selective.

An American who can win Tour mountain stages, Kuss might be the most valuable rider in cycling

I agree with LS, that there are sound tactical reasons for someone to attack at the moment, but equally, if you think Jumbo are strong, it might make more sense to let someone else attack instead, as most of the riders were happy to do when they watched Yates burn off Bennett. Fundamentally, if...

~42 minutes Actually I calculate it as 43:18

The race doctor said that they did interview Bardet 20 minutes after he got back to the peloton, and that he wasn't showing signs of concussion at that point. Concussion is tricky because symptoms might only appear hours or days after the incident, so just because he wasn't pulled out of the...

Sagan slipping from 2-3 on sprints to 3-5 makes a massive difference to his chance of getting green

Between 42 and 43 km/h it's 14%, currently we're 42.3km/h The manual is here: https://netstorage.lequipe.fr/ASO/cycling_tdf/tdf20-reglement-fruk-bd.pdf and it's page 29