General News Thread

[TourOfSardinia]

Why would I think of the Dutch word?
And even in the context of the sentence... I still have food on my mind.

Every time I see this symbol ≡ and then access the Menu
my appetite returns.

 

[awavey]

Cause they are similar. burger(dutch), borger(danish), burgher(english). add in the context of the sentence.

ere burgher isnt English, its a Dutch word in origin, we no doubt started to adopt it by trading withthe Hanseatic league.

but it became burgess, or borough, and neither of them remotely sound like burgers in English...mmm burgers

 

[KoopaCycling]

It's all part of the germanic family language group.
English and Dutch have many similar words. English probably use the word citizen more cause they were conquered by the french at 1 point.

 

[Rob5091]

Budget cap idea by the UCI a non-starter....

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racin...ap-says-uci-president-i-think-they-were-wrong

(original article in French) https://www.ouest-france.fr/sport/c...as-rendu-858d9ce4-bec4-11f0-a083-858f2b6e92c2

Professional cycling teams refused to sign up to a budget cap, the UCI's president has revealed, adding that he feels they were "wrong" to do so.

In an interview with French newspaper Ouest-France, published on Wednesday, David Lappartient said he "remained convinced" that a financial restriction would help the sport. .... "The big teams have very large budgets, and as a result, where before a relatively small sum could be enough to achieve a decent result, today you're just a bystander," Lappartient told Ouest-France. "We considered implementing a 'budget cap' for all the teams, and paradoxically, the teams didn't accept it. I was surprised that it was mostly the smaller teams that refused. I think they were wrong because it seems necessary to level the playing field."

 

[awavey]

It's all part of the germanic family language group.
English and Dutch have many similar words. English probably use the word citizen more cause they were conquered by the french at 1 point.

England has never been conquered by the French, they were Normans from the Duchy of Normandy, after all we'd never have had the 100 year war with them if they had done

we'd never call anyone a citizen,, subjects maybe, we'd still call them burghers, but i dont the g should be as hard as it would be with more germanic languages

 

[KoopaCycling]

England has never been conquered by the French, they were Normans from the Duchy of Normandy, after all we'd never have had the 100 year war with them if they had done

we'd never call anyone a citizen,, subjects maybe, we'd still call them burghers, but i dont the g should be as hard as it would be with more germanic languages

Normans were frenchies (with a viking dash). But you can have the semantics if that makes you feel better

Anyone seen the new Red Bull TT green tunnel? Looks cool and all. And TT wise interesting. Most of bike riding is done on a regular bike though.

 

[Sciatic]

Normans were frenchies (with a viking dash). But you can have the semantics if that makes you feel better

Anyone seen the new Red Bull TT green tunnel? Looks cool and all. And TT wise interesting. Most of bike riding is done on a regular bike though.

There wasn’t much to France in 1066, so no the Normans were not Frenchies.

 

[Rob5091]

There wasn’t much to France in 1066, so no the Normans were not Frenchies.

There is a line of thinking that says Normans were Viking descendents (Nordmen).

 

[Eagle_Alps]

Anyone seen the new Red Bull TT green tunnel? Looks cool and all. And TT wise interesting. Most of bike riding is done on a regular bike ththough.

Looks cool indeed.
I wonder if race organizers could do something like that in an evening prologue (or inside a building).
Then showing each riders in slow-mo passing through.
I know it's just a gimmick, but it would really add some good visuals for TTs if done right.

 

[KoopaCycling]

There is a line of thinking that says Normans were Viking descendents (Nordmen).

Vikings settled in french territories to face off against further viking raids. The majority of the people living there were french. By the time of the invasion they had intermarried. They spoke french, used european style ships, ... . Now i understand you prefer the semantics of them being somewhat independent (even if they nominally paid homage). In that case, the norman invasion force consisted of Normans, french, bretons and people from flanders.

 

[RedheadDane]

Uhm... guys... I wasn't expecting you guys to have a whole-frikking linguistic debate because of my silly comment about always thinking about food...

 

[KoopaCycling]

Well we're probably both right, and we're just debating just cause.

Is a modern day person from Catalonia, Catalan or spanish or both. It depends of who you ask, and were you stand i guess. That example is not exactly apples to apples with the normans, but i'm sure most will get what i'm trying to say.

Though we should probably curtail it here, as it got nothing to do with cycling, and this may start blending over to politics, which aren't allowed on here. So i'll stop this pointless debate here.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The Catalunya stage hosts were announced today, profiles pending but this looks like it could be the best route in the race's history.

Vallter 2000:

Coll de Pal:

And then Queralt hopefully on something like the route they had planned for this year (or the one they did race the year before that):