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29-04-2025 23:19
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29-04-2025 22:54
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29-04-2025 14:09
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29-04-2025 14:08
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27-04-2025 23:55
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Mistermaumau
The important thing in the justification is overlooked once more, did anyone ask or even consider whether Blanka feels she is in an open relationship, and, more importantly, of her own free will or under pressure, does she have the financial independence needed to move on? All very easy to declare such a thing one-sidedly to the outside but not very smart in light of subsequent decisions.08:34
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Mistermaumau
It’s obvious, no? This is the new way to hide racist intentions. 100 years ago it would have been different nationalities that were mentioned but in THOSE days it was out of prudishness that media didn’t want to be seen to say something nasty, today it is a cynically calculated strategy not to be held responsible for fanning flames. Can you imagine a journalist consciously writing about some guy helping in-laws and then specifying that these in-laws are of e.g. Belgian, Dutch, Danish, Swiss, Austrian, Swedish descent? No they wouldn’t even think it would be of interest or add anything, it would look out of place and have readers asking, why is he specifying. Jewish? They wouldn’t dare. It is a subtly calculated decision that you’ve come to expect from all those people who start their “stories” with “I’ve heard” “rumour has it” “I’m not a X/Y/Z but …”29-04-2025 23:19
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Mistermaumau
I don’t think anyone knows anything but it was a good guess to expect his problem would be very complex to solve and so he’d be unlikely to really compete at the highest level, just by basing his logic on the information available.29-04-2025 22:54
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Mistermaumau
I only attribute quotes to what he said, the part you picked is the writer’s explanation what he was referring to without saying anything about it. That’s a lot different, not spreading any details. Besides, the journalist was caught red-handed so it’s hardly gossip or rumour but more like fact, he himself has no facts or proof about what he alleged. But to come down to the more obvious problem here, this “journalist” would never have thought of writing anything like this if Remco had married into a good blonde Flemish gene pool, although a better off Knokke type might have generated different kinds of gossip. But a bog standard nobody? Not one journalist would care if he did something for his parents-in-law.29-04-2025 22:02
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Mistermaumau
That’s your right and no-one will ever know so who cares?29-04-2025 14:09
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Mistermaumau
He did not comment it, he questioned whether the journalist was throwing stones in glass houses regarding making comments on hearsay. For me his answer was about as close to perfect for discrediting his accuser as can be.29-04-2025 14:08
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Mistermaumau
Racing for 2nd place in a stage race, maybe ok but at least try something on a specific day!29-04-2025 09:00
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Mistermaumau
You are probably right but EVERY rider is different, some peak early, some late, some don’t peak but are consistently always there, some evolve into a different type of rider, some just fade or stop. You never know until it’s done.29-04-2025 08:57
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Mistermaumau
All the commentators were in unison about the situation and very critical, BUT, none of them gave any kind of suggestion how you can stop this happening on a 250km course or remove the person SAFELY without interfering in the riders’ riding or those coming from behind. The guy on the motorbike reacted pretty much as well as can be expected, impossible to have security on foot everywhere. For having directed road traffic during races, I can tell you, it’s already hard enough to get locals who aren’t fans to collaborate in the name of safety.28-04-2025 22:25
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Mistermaumau
Doing well this year, as are Lidl-T27-04-2025 23:55