Saudi Tour 2023 (January 30th - February 3rd)

[DNP-Old]

In fifth now, just 24 seconds down. Buitrago probably should not have been pulling in that front group...

Rajovic was also designated leader for stage 1, that's another, let's say 6 seconds lost.

 

[Mayomaniac]

In fifth now, just 24 seconds down. Buitrago probably should not have been pulling in that front group...

Yeah, but you can't really bank on Milan not loosing that much time on such a steep climb.
Tomorrow there's also a sterrato section, if Bahrain drill that one and/or there's wind Milan might still have a chance.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Guerreiro with the Gerrans recipe to win any race: "the secret is WAIT WAIT WAIT"

"Sorry mate, you're gonna get wheelsucked!"

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Movistar the strongest team tactically and unironically this time

 

[Samamba]

Cees Bol actually surprisingly good today

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It could have been interesting if tomorrow's stage had been a time trial.

 

[Earns1985]

Cees Bol actually surprisingly good today

Also already yesterday! Always thought he was more the Groenewegen and Jakobsen type of sprinter...

 

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Tomorrow there's also a sterrato section, if Bahrain drill that one and/or there's wind Milan might still have a chance.

I think it's not rough enough to really make a difference. They did it last year as well (although from the other side) and apart from Bagioli's crash, nothing really happened

 

[Samamba]

I think it's not rough enough to really make a difference. They did it last year as well (although from the other side) and apart from Bagioli's crash, nothing really happened

Well if they didn't take away the things that made Bagioli crash we could see the wrong kind of carnage

 

[perico]

Movistar #winning is getting addictive. In all seriousness they are off to a flying start this year.

 

[saunaking]

Wait, Froome isn't on the startlist, what is going on?!

looooooool!!!!

 

[saunaking]

Why does Guerreiro talk with a Russian accent?

Portuguese sounds russian to english speakers for some reason, at least I always thought so. Not even joking

 

[Potomac]

Portuguese sounds russian to english speakers for some reason, at least I always thought so. Not even joking

Very true.

 

[KZD]

Nice win by Guerreiro. Milan's with a great recovery after the climb but it was just too hard for him.

 

[Sciatic]

Portuguese sounds russian to english speakers for some reason, at least I always thought so. Not even joking

That is so true. . . I had a Portuguese girlfriend for a time and when she got together with her ex-pat friends it just didn’t sound anything (to my ears) like a Romance language. And sounds so different than Brazilian Portuguese.

 

[Anderis]

Portuguese sounds russian to english speakers for some reason, at least I always thought so. Not even joking

There's a video on youtube "Why does Portuguese sound like Russian" by Langfocus. It explains where this impression comes from.

 

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to finish the race in style, tomorrow's stage ends at some odd mirrored cube:

 

[RedheadDane]

There's a video on youtube "Why does Portuguese sound like Russian" by Langfocus. It explains where this impression comes from.

Meanwhile all the Portuguese, and Russian people are gonna be like "No, it doesn't..."

 

[Anderis]

Meanwhile all the Portuguese, and Russian people are gonna be like "No, it doesn't..."

If you go to the comment section of the video I've mentioned, you'll see how wrong you are.

 

[Lequack]

to finish the race in style, tomorrow's stage ends at some odd mirrored cube:

It's actually where they started today.

 

[RedheadDane]

If you go to the comment section of the video I've mentioned, you'll see how wrong you are.

And here I was, thinking that Portuguese people would think that Portuguese sounds, well... Portuguese.

 

[Anderis]

And here I was, thinking that Portuguese people would think that Portuguese sounds, well... Portuguese.

Some Portuguese people admit being confused when they hear Russian from afar, because it sounds a bit like Portuguese to them.

 

[BR2]

Some Portuguese people admit being confused when they hear Russian from afar, because it sounds a bit like Portuguese to them.

Have to admit I find that very surprising, those two languages sound nothing alike to me.

 

[Anderis]

Have to admit I find that very surprising, those two languages sound nothing alike to me.

It's based on anegdotal evidence, it may well be fewer than 1% of Portuguese speakers who feel like that, but that's enough to make some comments about that on the Internet.
But the video I've told about explains why these feelings may not be completely baseless using some linguistic knowledge.

Enough OT from me.

 

[Ricco']

I'm portuguese and although russian doesn't sound similar to me, I admit that our english accent is very similar to the russian one.