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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,649
    Above The Cows wrote:

    Handball is a weird sport, does anyone actually understand the rules?

    Some of them. Like you have to release the ball before your foot touches down in the area. You can run with the ball while bouncing it (like basketball). You can be penalised for not attacking (time-wasting side to side passes). The stuff about who fouled who is difficult though.

    It's bloody violent, they're big guys crashing into each other.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    It's bloody violent, they're big guys crashing into each other.

    Sounds like netball when you're a small person. :(
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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:

    Handball is a weird sport, does anyone actually understand the rules?

    The stuff about who fouled who is difficult though.

    It's bloody violent, they're big guys crashing into each other.

    Further complicated by the fact that fouling often seems to be regarded as A Good/Desirable Thing.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Wind and crashes splitting the bunch into pieces. Cav in one of the groups behind after crashing
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Cav stating the bleeding obvious:

    "Het weer zal een grote rol spelen"
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Offredo, Brandle and Breschel down
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,649
    The_Boy wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:

    Handball is a weird sport, does anyone actually understand the rules?

    The stuff about who fouled who is difficult though.

    It's bloody violent, they're big guys crashing into each other.

    Further complicated by the fact that fouling often seems to be regarded as A Good/Desirable Thing.

    That depends. You can get sin-binned for it, then your team has to cope a man down for a couple of minutes.

    In basketball you definitely should foul, up to your four personal fouls allowance.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    GentWevelgem @GentWevelgem

    There are a lot of crashes in the peloton. @martinvelits of @Etixx_QuickStep is out of the race with a broken collarbone. #GWE
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,649
    ATC got there first.
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  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Jens Keukeleire looks about 12.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Nice weather in Barcelona.

    De situatie in GW: 7 leiders (Timmer, Gougeard, Dowsett, Broett, Sergent, Kerkhof en Tedeschi) - peloton I op 4 minuten - peloton II op 4'32" - peloton III op 4'50".

    "Het is een echt slagveld" Sporza loving its war references today.
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  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    The_Boy wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Above The Cows wrote:

    Handball is a weird sport, does anyone actually understand the rules?

    The stuff about who fouled who is difficult though.

    It's bloody violent, they're big guys crashing into each other.

    Further complicated by the fact that fouling often seems to be regarded as A Good/Desirable Thing.

    That depends. You can get sin-binned for it, then your team has to cope a man down for a couple of minutes.

    In basketball you definitely should foul, up to your four personal fouls allowance.

    Hence the 'often' :). Tbh though, I gave up trying to understand that particular aspect of the game and just follow the philosophy of 'if the ref whistles...'. See also: Rucks and Scrums in rugby,
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Rik Verbrugghe (IAM) is playing the Cancellara role and asking on twitter for the race to be neutralised.
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  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Something happen with Cav? Carlton said something about it on the Catalunya stream I'm watching but didn't catch all of it.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Renaat on the moto saying that the wind is gusting at 80k an hour and it is very dangerous. Saying people have literally been blown from their bikes and into canals.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    adr82 wrote:
    Something happen with Cav? Carlton said something about it on the Catalunya stream I'm watching but didn't catch all of it.

    He crashed. Perhaps he was one of the ones blown off.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Above The Cows wrote:
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    Laura Slashley.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    A break has gone from the peloton with Vanmarcke, Van Avermaet, Thomas, Greipel, Roelandts, Maes, Lodewyck, Haussler and Debusschere.

    Well I assume that's what they mean on the Sporza site with een groepje favorieten heeft zich losgescheurd. Torn away.
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  • muttley_109
    muttley_109 Posts: 177
    Live on eurosport in 5....4.....3.....
    Cannondale CAAD 10
    Genesis Equilibrium Disc 10
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Pelotons 1 and 2 together again as the race moves into France.
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  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Please please please can Roubaix be like this.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    33km/h average speed for the last hour.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
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    Steegmans in a ditch.
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  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Wiggins abandon
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    FJS wrote:
    Wiggins abandon
    Hands up if you're surprised.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    MTNQ get bored and throw a hand grenade into the bunch...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    20 degree lean just to stay upright!
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    Looks pretty crazy out there
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    edited March 2015
    <Engages RichN mode>
    I once put it into the canal at Camden Lock. Concerned bystanders chucked their dogs on strings at me for added beyonce.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    ECHELONS
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver

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