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Alex Bond's avatar

Pedantic correction to the (very funny) Julian Alaphilippe situation at the Tour - the guy in 2nd place ahead of him, Victor Campenaerts, beat him by just 8 seconds. That he really should have noticed someone was ahead makes it funnier, I think. Since Thibaut Pinot retired, Alaphilippe now holds the title of "most French guy in the peloton" and he does a great job of living up to it with swagger, flamboyance, misadventure, and occasional moments of brilliance.

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Watchman's avatar

Plus he looks just so French. And is seemingly a really nice guy you'd happily have a coffee with, maybe some wine. He's basically a positive embodiment of France (and one of about 100 fun attacking riderd in this year's surprisingly entertaining for a procession race).

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Bob Hand's avatar

Men's Softball is back at the World Games for the first time since 1981. U.S. should be a medal contender again (World champ Venezuela will be there, but no New Zealand, Japan and Australia should be other contenders)...U.S. won gold at the 1981 World Games when professional women's and men's fastball pitch teams represented Team USA (note two men's softball teams entered because of a late WD of Mexico)

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Ricardo's avatar

I must have it noted that Germany's red card was for HAIR PULLING. Shockingly stupid.

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Jessie Oehrlein's avatar

Favorite sports thing recently: Annie Sanders won a lead climbing world cup this weekend, becoming the first USian woman to do so in 26 years and the only USian woman to *ever* win both a boulder world cup gold and a lead world cup gold. This was wild to me! There were multiple others who I assumed had done this, and they did have multiple lead WC silvers and bronzes, but no golds.

Very excited for fencing worlds! FIE posted some decent previews of who to watch out for in all the events on Instagram (and probably other platforms). Men's Artistic Gymnastics at the World University Games also starts tomorrow, and some of the best athletes are actually competing, so should be a good time.

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JJ Stavros Schaffer's avatar

If we're just talking island boundaries, Long Island would easily beat Manhattan. Manhattan can't stand up to the combined depth of Brooklyn and Queens plus those two other counties I can't remember.

Taiwan would do pretty well too.

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JJ Stavros Schaffer's avatar

Just remembered that back when I was stringing for the West Side Spirit, I did a series on Manhattan Olympics leading up to the 2008 games. Profiled people like Anthony Famiglietti, Wang Chen, and Sarah Mergenthaler

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Bob Hand's avatar

If you want to know the strongest island...Prince Edward Island has the best muscles. (Dad joke #101)

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