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SD Worx are used to other teams being dumb enough to do their work for them / sabotaging themselves by boneheaded tactical decisions / being so completely OP that they can win despite questionable tactics (delete as appropriate)

Conversion of kicks might not be too bad actually, looking at the record on Transfermarkt, but conversion of shootouts to wins is terrible which is what I was going off - guess the Dutch problem is more about saving them (Tim Krul excepted) than scoring them then.

Meridiana-Kamen? PSK Whirlpool? These are good suggestions, but I think we can improve.

The Netherlands: am I a joke to you?

In all honesty, early in his career he was a really good tactician, the guy roughed up and beat Johannes Thingnes Bø on a final lap in Antholz several years back, and he was good at altitude. Then Simon Fourcade got hold of him and taught him the true secret of race breakdown: to expend all...

Hopefully she doesn't.

The fact so many teams are willing to go to a sprint with Wiebes continues to infuriate. Banking on her wrecking out after charging like a bull in a china shop around the last few kilometres is a losing strategy. I mean, she has done that plenty of times, but she's not only better at getting...

Is Marion Rousse in the commissaire's car behind ready to hug Jonas at the line? This was the same kind of "sorry, ladies, but your efforts are worthless, I can dismiss you any time I like and thank you for carrying me this far" that got my back up in the women's Tour last year.

Man, I remember the days when Formula One had suspense, more than one car was competitive and the drivers had to make decisions for themselves. Good times, good times.

I endorse the final part of this post. And that part only.

Be fair to him, he was riding in Portugal, where tactics are a dirty word.

Femke Bol is my favourite Bambi, so don't oversell Remco lol

Sort of. The Setmana used to move around March and early April. But it was also a largely medium mountain race until the mid-80s and also only ever had Andorra for its main mountain stages until the mid-late 90s when it was already ailing. These are some typical mountain stages from the...

Catalunya moved to May/June after the Vuelta switch from April to September, but as we moved into the 2000s, it was seeing dwindling fields, especially post-Puerto with the deaths of many strong Spanish teams at the second tier, and falling into the same trap that Romandie fell into at the time...

Just because a service is there does not mean that all wish to use it, especially not for all races simultaneously. It may be increasingly difficult to avoid spoilers in today's interconnected society but that doesn't mean that people don't try, and saying that Brennan won on the same day as...