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There was another one?
How was that clearly? Wouldn't it make more sense to think of the more recent one first?
If someone talked about Van der Poel, you wouldn't think they were talking about Adrie...

The fact that he was listed first in a sentence about the good old days should probably have given you a clue of where we were timewise, or at the very least about where we weren't. Since NVH never actually was a key player in the race, it would also have been quite odd to highlight him.
 
There was another one?
How was that clearly? Wouldn't it make more sense to think of the more recent one first?
If someone talked about Van der Poel, you wouldn't think they were talking about Adrie...

That "another one" is significantly more successful than Nathan so perhaps Nathan should be the other one 😅.

And if they mention Van der Poel in the same sentence as, say, Kelly one should know they don't talk about the more recent one.
 
Ah, that did not occur to me. My bad.

Terrible decision. But at least they can perhaps come to their senses and reverse course later.

They say it's because they think too few top riders do the race because of Itzulia's close proximity to BP and that it works with E3 to be on the Friday before GW.

But yeah, I don't think this will have the effect they're dreaming of.
 
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Again, that's what confused me:
The seemingly mention of a much more recent guy among a bunch of oldtimers...

Especially since "Uncle" Van Hooydonck does not exactly get brought up frequently...

But you were nevertheless wrong to believe it was referring to Nathan, can we just leave it at that? Edwig is much more accomplished, you're only putting your ignorance of the history of the sport on display here.
 
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If today is the deadline for proving adequate funding is in place for teams renewing their UCI licence for next year, should we be expecting some clarification on ChinAstana any moment now?

UCI only communcates at the beginning of December somewhere about which teams get their license for the next year, but I think you can see earlier which teams have applied so I guess we could see ChinAstana's new name pretty soon. Will probably be something like Team XDS
 
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Because, apparently, the money wasn't good enough.

Or maybe cycling teams, which are probably capable of paying a salary that would bring any triathlete running (after swimming and cycling) weren't interested in offering him a contract.
At least Blummenfelt's coach will now work in cycling. Olav Aleksander Bu becomes head coach for Uno-X.

 
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Emile Daems passed away yesterday.
In a 6 year career he won 3 monuments, 6 GT stages and some semi-classics.