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- AI says Kim le Court's name in cycling is officiaĺy Kimberley (Le Court) Pienaar. But that is often shortened to Kim Le Court. I guess she had to fill out a form to change her original name. But this applies to some men in the peleton too.
- Spanish bees are a-buzzing.
- Agree. This is a reasonable take. Visma did what they could. Animated the race. Pushed the pace. Ultimately it wasn't enough. Pogi was just that good this year.
- "complement each other perfectly" i laughed so much at this🤣🤣🤣
- So, what’s the criteria for women regarding names, is there some kind of logic or do they ask each rider individually how they want to be referred to?
Why do Kasia and Pauline figure with married names and Kim not. Depending on where (and ignoring mistakes like here), you’ll see official results with her shortened family name, full family name of shortened plus married name (never so far full family name plus married). Can’t be easy for databases.
- Sorry but if you’re going to raise issues like this, look at the overall picture first.
Why is this only a women issue, do you think the men aren’t watching their intake/weight optimisation just as much or even more?
No-one, man or women, is going to perform to a high enough level over 1, 5, 10 or 20 days of racing to be competitive without having eaten (and drunk) sufficiently (also all along the long preparation for the race).
Please look at the images of men/vs women and tell me which (on average) look thinner/more meagre/less chubby, especially the critical part, legs, pay attention to how much less defined (but not less big proportionally) womens legs are, what is that which hides the muscle definition?
And then to the age-athlete’s perception of weight. Considering muscle is more dense than water and fat less, any reduction in fat or increase in muscle will INCREASE your weight so why the heck should an athlete care about weighing scales indicating a weight higher than the perceived goal, it is often a good sign for performance, an outsider has no idea what your weight means in terms of performance.
So, for all those concerned, what is your priority, performance and results or fitting into norms and expectations?
- Leave? Do you really think they’ll just let him?
- Last chance saloon for Ayuso. Win or help Almeida win, or leave. Them's your apples.
- How else could it be with humans always only a few minutes apart after 80 hours of competition. I don’t think many actually think about what a margin that is, less than 1/1000th which in the 100m would be 0,01s or 10cm, almost photo finish material. Are any of us sure of always being within 1/1000th of our best, even for one day, let alone 3 weeks?
- I sense some Karma heading Visma’s way, even if the words chosen in sports media titles these days are totally disproportionate wrt to the comment content, getting worse than for politics. Verstappen condemns start delay was just as OTT. Seems as soon as a pf opens their mouth, media resort to blowing anything said out of proportion in the title to ensure readers, only to leave them dissatisfied not to read anything of value.
