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Sweden and England with a new contender for worst penalty shoot-out of all time. England's women are nothing like as bad as their men when it comes to choking in shoot-outs (in fact I believe their record is pretty good), but this wasn't for the lack of trying. Sweden changing out their...

So is this guy connected to Humanplasma as well, or just Aderlass? As Schmidt obviously goes back to that if he's involved with Kohl. This would then tie him together with Menchov, who was one of those alleged to be involved in Humanplasma, hence his after-the-fact erasure from a number of races...

There is a certain irony that stage 2 was an MTT, which would be just about the lowest-risk type of stage, but then stage 1 was a mostly flat one (by Valdôtain standards) and certainly not the kind of situation we would usually see that kind of risk of violent accident - but then, like we...

Hey, we've been waiting over half the race to overreact to the first serious climb of the race, a lot of insane takes have been building up, just waiting to be had!

My fear is that this is what he is like sober, and so he might be like Bender from Futurama, get alcohol in him and he starts to make sense.

And the probability of there still being a GC battle on day 20 if you have an in extremis 19 flat stage route may be high, but the probability of the race being absolutely miserable is a lot higher than if you have a dominant guy with a 5 minute GC lead. As mentioned, the 2011 Giro was actually...

A five minute gap from stage 1 may well be boring, but there are enough counterexamples in history of a seemingly comfortable appointed winner with a sizable lead then collapsing or becoming vulnerable later on in the race. And not just the cases of guys like Isidro Nozal and Ben O'Connor, but...

We are 47,6% of the way through the race and we have only just had our first cat.2 climbs of the race (most of which were rather generously categorised, too), certainly there is something to be said for not going overboard with front-loading the race, but that doesn't mean back-loading is...

As ever, supportive region comes back on board, they were miles out of the way for the women's TOB this year so it makes sense that they'd bid for the men. After all, the county has been just about the most supportive of all to the professional sport since the British cycling boom. East Anglia...

He seems to have a dichotomy, like last year in the Vuelta, when he was definitively dropped and allowed to ride his own pace, he did an amazing job of defending, but putting him in a group with others, he gets all white line feverish and impatient and tries to do too much. It'll come some day...

Only problem is that by the time she went it was too late to gain the kind of time she needed, given that most of the way in from there was downhill. Either Reusser bluffed it long enough to preserve her position or Gigante left it too late to gain all of the time that she needed to pass Reusser...

The oddness is not in that they signed a domestique type, it's the source and the direction of travel. He had been a fairly nondescript WT pro for a couple of years with Intermarché and while he was still young enough to feasibly be improving, not even getting a contract for 2024 and then...

The only way Plugge could possibly set himself up for betrayal more than RedRick as a DS would be if the only other applicant was Revolver Ocelot.

It was Gigante that did the damage, it seemed like ELB, Marlen and most of the others were happy to let Smulders hang out there. Not sure what Gigante expected of upping the pace like that unless she was very worried about losing time on the descent (not unreasonable for her) but she had a...

Bob Stapleton's joyless legacy lives on.