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Mark has not always been an easy guy to like. Strong willed, ill tempered, cocky. But the twilight of his career - starting with his tears at his ‘last race ever’ at Ghent in 2020, it’s been hard not to pull for him. What a legend. Well done Sir Mark!

What a fucking stage. Pog looks like he’s missing a little top end on his attack, but while JV can almost match it he looks not able to sustain it.

I kind of like Carapaz…but he grabbed that jersey in the most Spanish way ever. Loved the WTF looks from Remco and Tadej at they were all soft pedaling in. edit - my bad, he’s from Ecuador but my feelings are the same!

Peacock here and I hate it. Living on the West Coast, always tuning in late in the morning with no option to start from the beginning. Have to start within and hour or so of the end. I guess it beats Wide World Of Sports Sunday updates, but just barely.

I mean, Jonas had 1.5 months to prepare for this Tour while Tadej was already on form. He looks good but let’s see what he does on longer successive climbs.

Maybe the positive for Roglic is that he’s not peaked too early. But this was a familiar sight today - just needed an ill-fitting helmet half off his head while he struggled to hold onto seconds to complete the picture. Let’s see if Tadej burned too many matches, but I doubt it. As said above, hope at least it’s an interesting 3 weeks in July.

There was a time when I would agree. I think there was one spring in the Bay Area that broke me. It was an El Nino year, and so riding in the wet was just the way it was going to be. But crossing the GGB on the way home, it started to hail. That combined with wind whipping in froze me. Sat in a warm bath for an hour trying to get my core temp back up. Never the same, and now I'm too old and soft to repeat. Not enough words to describe how TP is just on another level. He's such an amazing all-rounder - great TT, great climber, not impacted by the cold, not averse from trying Spring Classics. We haven't seen one like him in a long time. And he'll give the jersey off his back for a young rider (as he did today). Great Giro so far for Danny Martinez - always liked him at EF. Worried about the weather the next few days. Hope we don't get a repeat of today.

Horrific. Can’t imagine being sent into a concrete culvert at those speeds. F this spring.

Late to the party, thanks for the tag. Discovered almost by accident that my MAX subscription now carries the Eurosport coverage for (some of) the spring classics. How nice to watch Strade Bianche from the comfort of my own living room, rather than hunched over my computer watching a downloaded torrent. Between that and Peacock, I guess I guess we have them all covered this year - oddly enough perhaps the most complete TV coverage we've had for a while on mainstream channels (though I was never a GCN guy). What can you say about Tadej. I used to think he was a little too cocky, but his sportsmanship won me over. The guy loves to race. To call out he would attack when he did, and then do it while everyone was in misery in the hail and mud, phew. An 80k TT for the win. True panache with that one. Never dull to watch. Can't help but think about the showdown with Jonas eventually. While he's nowhere near as exciting to watch, the talent is undeniable. Both are able to ride in terrible conditions (see the wins in cold wet O Gran Camino) with damn fine bike handling as well, so we're past the staring-at-the-watt-meter boredom of past. Not sure Bora is up for the challenge in keeping Roglic in play. I think he's got a chip on his shoulder from being 'reigned in' at the Vuelta (though I'm not 100% sure he was able to challenge Sepp on those long steep climbs), so he's got something to prove. I get the move for him, but not sure Bora was the best choice - but where else could he go? These helmets, though - oy: Spaceballs

Live look at the Iowa caucus?

Shocked

It’s not just him. The receiving corps catch darn near everything. Lethal combo.

Scares you to death.

Set up for a holding call in the end zone resulting in a safety to win the game. Won’t happen with B12 refs though.

Alabama’s linebackers look very confused and slow…

The holding calls are fucking icing on the cake.

Fuck OU.

That goes both ways in this game.

Can you be more specific?

Ffs.

Try not to fuck this up Louisville.

We will have no one left by the title game at this rate. Fuck.

We know how to fuck up a gang bang.

That was silly