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there is a belgian three cushion billiards players called eddy merckx. but it's a different one.
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serious gaylord posted:Flosports sounds like the american version of eurosport. it's like Eurosport except with 0.1% of the budget and no TV network my favorite thing is when they can't get English world feed commentary from a race so they like rustle up some dude who usually announces college rugby or something to commentate on E3 Harelbeke, extremely poorly
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Jul 26, 2019 23:24
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HappyCamperGL posted:there is a belgian three cushion billiards players called eddy merckx. but it's a different one. You learn something new every day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Merckx_(billiards_player) It says he was named for the other, more famous Eddy Merckx. 
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Jul 26, 2019 23:25
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oh, i was imagining a triangular table i'm disappointed
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Jul 26, 2019 23:27
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I know its not gonna happen and this question has probably been asked a million times but in theory, if on the final stage 1-2 were separated by say, 8 seconds, would it be contested? (not in a TT ala '89, but the usual procession stage). Or are the unwritten rules too strong
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clean ayers act posted:I know its not gonna happen and this question has probably been asked a million times but in theory, if on the final stage 1-2 were separated by say, 8 seconds, would it be contested? (not in a TT ala '89, but the usual procession stage). Or are the unwritten rules too strong 
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Jul 27, 2019 00:31
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Unfortunately, the sprint teams are too invested. You'd never get a break to stick.
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Jul 27, 2019 00:33
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Yeah even when Vino broke away and won it, he still finished with the same time as the sprinters. Couldn't gain a single second over the peloton. And you're not realistically gonna be able to stay away for longer than he did I have some vague memory of Froome putting in some half-hearted moves against Cobo in the last stage of the 2011 Vuelta, when he was 13 seconds back, but I can't actually find any mention of them in the race recaps I can find now... maybe I just imagined it 
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Jul 27, 2019 00:46
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I managed to avoid spoilers today and saw there were like 250 posts and figured something wild happened but that’s definitely not what I expected.
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Jul 27, 2019 00:57
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No matter what happens over the next 2 day I think we can all agree that next year is going to be so drat boring compared to this year.
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Jul 27, 2019 01:35
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yeah, ineos will have figured out how to get around whatever new AICAR detection they came up with and their domestiques will be back to their usual self instead of being mysteriously out of form at the same time
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Jul 27, 2019 01:47
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finally got to watch the end of this and had a literal lol at Uran here, love him going mental and Nibali chasing after him anyway. there was a shot of Bernal with those two blowing chunks behind him and it felt like a real changing of the guard https://twitter.com/salazars_world/status/1154814690620559361?s=21 paddyboat fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jul 27, 2019 |
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Jul 27, 2019 02:14
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Why was he mad? I missed that part.
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Rhaegar posted:Why was he mad? I missed that part. Guessing he didn't believe the stage was being canceled
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Jul 27, 2019 05:00
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He thought he was being played when Nibali told him the race had been neutralized and to quit going so hard.
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Jul 27, 2019 05:00
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https://mobile.twitter.com/NOSsport/status/1154849512793497601
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Jul 27, 2019 06:49
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Rojkir posted:I'm just a bit hungup about the usual disregard for rider safety and now when they finally do something everyone is like: "Great descision!" But no one is complaining as vocally when we have another completely retarded flat stage where riders are forced into a narrowing road doing 60k/hr like last year when Bernal crashed for example (one of many many many examples). Remember that stage when multiple riders were knocked off the road into a barbed wire fence? Good times.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:yeah, ineos will have figured out how to get around whatever new AICAR detection they came up with and their domestiques will be back to their usual self instead of being mysteriously out of form at the same time Great post.
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Jul 27, 2019 08:09
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Bernal rocks but the whole stage should have neutralised yesterday. When no one knows there the finish line is, it’s not a proper race. I guess there aren’t no good solutions in a situation like this, but that would have been the least bad IMO.
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Xabi posted:Bernal rocks but the whole stage should have neutralised yesterday. When no one knows there the finish line is, it’s not a proper race. I guess there aren’t no good solutions in a situation like this, but that would have been the least bad IMO. As to whether its least bad, I'll have to repeat what I said yesterday: It's worse for the close fight that we want them to have if they completely cancel the results of yesterdays stage, because as far as I remember the classifications, the gaps on the day before yesterday were bigger than they are yesterday, and yesterdays stage was arguably worse for Alaphilippe than todays stage because todays climb suits him more.
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Jul 27, 2019 09:18
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It would kind of own if all the French teams road for Alaphilippe today.
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Jul 27, 2019 09:59
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The organisers must be incredibly grateful it’s a Colombian wonder kid and not Froome. He would probably be killed.
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peanut- posted:The organisers must be incredibly grateful it’s a Colombian wonder kid and not Froome. He would probably be killed. Im still not sure if he'll make it up the mountain without getting smacked in the face. The stage cancellation has rankled a lot of the idiots.
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Jul 27, 2019 11:07
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From all the videos on Twitter of current conditions I'm not sure we'll even get a shortened stage.
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Jul 27, 2019 11:27
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https://mobile.twitter.com/ESPCyclingQueen/status/1155062151918362624 indeed
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Jul 27, 2019 11:37
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Yeah it looks bad. Would be a disappointing end to a great tour if they can't go today.
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Jul 27, 2019 11:39
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Super lovely but juuust rideable conditions could make this alot more interesting but there does seem to be some murmuring this will be cancelled
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Jul 27, 2019 11:40
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God hates France I guess
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Jul 27, 2019 11:47
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If it had pissed it down like an hour earlier and 2 miles to the east yesterday France would be celebrating the win right now
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Jul 27, 2019 11:49
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https://twitter.com/SportsOrla/status/1155067971884261382
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goatface posted:But eurosport does also let you watch random sports like 3 cushion billiards and cliff diving. Eurosport is the ultimate in background viewing sports tv. Like you said, there's cliff diving, there's a load of athletics from Diamond League top level stuff to meets at a crappy community stadium, last night I had slippy slidey dirt track motorbike racing on while I was doing other stuff, and during the week I was watching fencing. Half their subscription base must be people who pay for access for their one weird sport that gets the world championship covered, the other the weird euros doing dances to euro-trance outside the TdF team hotels in big choreographed groups (which, of course, Eurosport shows at random points during the race.)
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Mrenda posted:Eurosport is the ultimate in background viewing sports tv. Like you said, there's cliff diving, there's a load of athletics from Diamond League top level stuff to meets at a crappy community stadium, last night I had slippy slidey dirt track motorbike racing on while I was doing other stuff, and during the week I was watching fencing. Half their subscription base must be people who pay for access for their one weird sport that gets the world championship covered, the other the weird euros doing dances to euro-trance outside the TdF team hotels in big choreographed groups (which, of course, Eurosport shows at random points during the race.) Just a shame about the samey adverts (SUNNY!) and those compilations that take up a minute whilst racing is happening.
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Gonna need a MTB: https://twitter.com/DienVdB/status/1155072459546214400
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Jul 27, 2019 12:13
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Victory for the team that brought gravel bikes.
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Jul 27, 2019 12:30
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I can't watch 
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Jul 27, 2019 13:20
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Heliosicle posted:Just a shame about the samey adverts (SUNNY!) and those compilations that take up a minute whilst racing is happening. Yeah this makes Eurosport (almost) unwatchable for me. The same lovely commercials all the time, and they come on every 15 minutes
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Jul 27, 2019 13:29
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Anyway I can watch the cycling for free without commercials on Dutch or Belgian TV 
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oliwan posted:Yeah this makes Eurosport (almost) unwatchable for me. The same lovely commercials all the time, and they come on every 15 minutes At least those cringy Alpecin ads are gone.
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I'm so glad that Danish TV2 broadcasts Tour de France, as they only break for news at 1500 or 1600 on weekdays. Also, I've been looking at it - and if I read the points and right, Bernal might win the yellow yersey, the white jersey and the polka dot if he is first or second on Val Thorens, and if Bardet comes 8th or lower?
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