Tour de France 2021 (may contain spoilers)

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Cavendish is a douche, always has been, and his spectacular failure on the Champs despite having the best leadout train in the business hints at his ego overriding smart tactics in this loss.
 
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I see that there have been murmurs from ‘disgruntled’ riders from lesser teams about suspicious noises coming from the top team’s bikes 😲. Not a hidden engine a la Cancellara, but some form of energy storage device that can be activated when required...

I’d love to see the mechanisms if they exist, but I call BS.
 
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Remember this? The civil court case starts tomorrow (Thurs 14th Oct) https://road.cc/content/news/trial-set-open-woman-who-caused-tdf-crash-287071

and, And, AND
we get the outline parcours of the 2022 TdF 👍 (not in the court obv). If the rumour sites are right, and they are normally pretty good, I will have a very disappointed friend complaining that it's been three years since it's been anywhere near her house in Corrèze.
 
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Remember this? The civil court case starts tomorrow (Thurs 14th Oct) https://road.cc/content/news/trial-set-open-woman-who-caused-tdf-crash-287071

and, And, AND
we get the outline parcours of the 2022 TdF 👍 (not in the court obv). If the rumour sites are right, and they are normally pretty good, I will have a very disappointed friend complaining that it's been three years since it's been anywhere near her house in Corrèze.
Verdict is in : fine set at 1200 euro (instead of jailtime) and damages set to symbolic amount of 1 euro.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/s...rash-handed-1200-euros-fine-media-2021-12-09/
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Everyone has their 15 minutes of fame, but it isn't always positive, as in this case. Her name wasn't even mentioned in the Reuters piece, lucky for her.
 
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I was so sorry to see "Cavendish assaulted by armed men during burglary", particularly since he was already injured from a crash, and even more with his wife and kids there. Seems it happened a few days ago, now he's twittered about it. Let's hope Scotland Yard score a win on this one.
This was a high end watch robery, The police say two Richard Mille watches were taken. I suspect he had more as he wears them when racing !
Richard Mille presented one to him at last years TDF.
These watches are going to be hard to "fence" as they are very distinctive. So stolen to order ?
But then they would have known he had more than two ?
Another reason NOT to buy RM ?
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stolen to order?
But then they would have known he had more than two?
I'm afraid most of these criminals are not the calculating masterminds you see in the movies, they are just thugs. Yup, they heard a man got himself some brand-name stash - I doubt they ran the numbers on how much net gain they could realistically make. Given the armed violence I think they'll be doing a lot of time for not a life-changing haul. Let's hope.