It's crazy how some people just casually advocate for fascism when they don't get their treats. One of the hungarian eurosport commentators literally suggested giving protestors arbitrary prison sentences as a deterrent. And he's not even an outright zionist.

They have arrested protestors (afaik) from previous stages and it hasn't changed anything. Also in today's case it looked like there were hundreds of protestors there, how are they gonna arrest all of them? Additionally do you have evidence that today's protests weren't peaceful?

How do you suppose authorities can stop these protests from happenning?

I don't see how they're sacraficing gc. Almeida didn't lose time and there was no way he was dropping Jonas with the headwind. I don't think Soler dropping back would've made a difference.

I do wish they would focus only on gc tho, because this uae dominance is getting too much.

Yeah don't get me wrong, I definitely didn't expect Almeida to win, but it kind of makes sense after the fact. This is basically the perfect mountain for him with almost no draft and big attacks being very risky on these gradients.

He was on (or very near) his limit I would think. I feel like he would've tried to attack once atleast if that wasn't the case.

I've just been honked off the road a couple of days ago for avoiding some potholes, 150m before a red light, at like 30-35kph. I can't even imagine what they would've done if they had to be behind me for 5 minutes lol

I like loops more aswell. But for me they're usually pretty hard to find, because most of the loops I could do around where I live would require me to go on higher traffic roads.

Isn't that only true for running reds? I mentionted speeding specifically because it's a form of law breaking the majority of drivers do, while most cyclists actually follow the law. And ofc even if cyclists break it, it's either mostly dangerous for themselves or for their own safety.

Also I would bet that drivers break the law far more than cyclists, if speeding is included as an offence.

Yeah, the weirdest thing for me this year is that they just completely stopped wearing masks. Like it's such an easy precaution for the most important race of the year, and there's clearly some sort of outbreak, I just don't get it.

I feel like she just ran out of power tbh, it was a pretty long attack and Le Court was fast approaching. I doubt she'd slow on purpuse in that situation.

Cycling has way more team orders than f1 tho?

Oh yeah, if this happened on stage 20 and the gc diff was 10 seconds, I'm sure this would've played out differently. That situation happening seems unlikely tho.

I don't agree, those 30 seconds or so would only matter for Jonas, but surely it's not worth the bad pr for him/visma for a relatively small amount of time. They already had a bit of a shitstorm at the giro for pacing after a crash, I can't even imagine what it would've been like here.

I agee with that in general, but I think his move for the lead today was pretty clean.