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Meet Mr Appletree!
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Henri Johannes Appelbaum
Henri Johannes Appelbaum (born 2004-10-30) is a professional road racing cyclist from Germany, currently riding for REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland. His best results are 10th place in GC Turul Romaniei and 11th place in stage Turul Romaniei.
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Talking about trees https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/william-crabtree/startMeet Mr Appletree!
Henri Johannes Appelbaum
Henri Johannes Appelbaum (born 2004-10-30) is a professional road racing cyclist from Germany, currently riding for REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland. His best results are 10th place in GC Turul Romaniei and 11th place in stage Turul Romaniei.
Good thing his surname is spelled with a 'b', not a 'p'...
Jazilla Mwamikazi from the women's mountain bike race has a hell of a name. She does road racing as well, so she qualifies for the thread.
Oh, this is a bit like certain rider threads; even if it's technically in the RR section, it's also fine to talk about other disciplines, as long as it involves cool names.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Van_Aert
Our Benny finally has another thing in common with Wout, being in the olympic that is.
It seems that whenever there's a national athlete called Benny here, someone in the Netherlands got the same occupation at a different level at the same time. In the late 1980s, Benny van Breukelen was the goalkeeper for a struggling team in the country's top league when a certain Hans won the EURO.
Our Benny finally has another thing in common with Wout, being in the olympic that is.
It seems that whenever there's a national athlete called Benny here, someone in the Netherlands got the same occupation at a different level at the same time. In the late 1980s, Benny van Breukelen was the goalkeeper for a struggling team in the country's top league when a certain Hans won the EURO.
German rower competing in the Olympics this morning called Julius Christ
You are... stretching the definition of "cycling related" slightly...
German rowers, Slovenian ski jumpers, and Belgian footballers can be considered "cycling related"
"Rower" means a bicycle in Polish and considering what kind of forum we're here, this post got me confused for a few seconds.
From Tour de Pologne startlist:
I love how of the 3 consecutive riders on the starlist, one shares his first name and his last name with one of the other two. It would've been even better if Ben Swift was in the middle.
I love how of the 3 consecutive riders on the starlist, one shares his first name and his last name with one of the other two. It would've been even better if Ben Swift was in the middle.
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And the award for the most successive consonants goes to:
GRUSZCZYNSKI Filip Stagiaire at Cofidis, probably not as hard to pronounce as it looks at first glance.
GRUSZCZYNSKI Filip Stagiaire at Cofidis, probably not as hard to pronounce as it looks at first glance.
As a Pole, I would think this is pretty difficult to pronounce for anyone who doesn't speak Polish or some language with similar phonetics.
It's still no more consecutive consonants than in a typical Polish name- just 3 "ńsk". "sz" and "cz" are actually one sound each and "szcz" is actually pretty common in Polish, like the football players Błaszczykowski, Piszczek, Szczęsny or the cities of Bydgoszcz or Szczecin.
It's still no more consecutive consonants than in a typical Polish name- just 3 "ńsk". "sz" and "cz" are actually one sound each and "szcz" is actually pretty common in Polish, like the football players Błaszczykowski, Piszczek, Szczęsny or the cities of Bydgoszcz or Szczecin.
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"Sz" is like English "sh" like in "show"
And "cz" is like English "ch" like in "Chile"
Notice how there's a pattern and "z" in Polish is utilised similarly to "h" in English.
About vowels, it's difficult to explain them because how English writes vowels down is all over the place.
"u" is close to "oo" like in "boom"
"i" is close to "ee" like in "bee"
"y" is close to "i" like in "rich
So I would say Grooshchinskee
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You may want to try this word:
pszczoła - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Pszczyna - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/bjoern-koerdt
This guy sounds like he should be Dutch, rides on a French team but is British.
This guy sounds like he should be Dutch, rides on a French team but is British.
With the departure of Buchmann and Schachmann, there will be no more "manns" left at Bora. 
The end of an era.
The end of an era.
With the departure of Buchmann and Schachmann, there will be no more "manns" left at Bora.
They do still have the rider with the most versatile name who can be calledl Florimann Lipomann.
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