First there’s a Mexican boxer named “Mantequilla” and now a Gaelic football team called “Mayo”. WTF Deadspin, are y’all hungry or something?

I want to hear from San Francisco Civic drivers who cursed the self-satisfied engineer who designed this.

By the way, you might be interested to see this article “Why do tornados and hailstorms rest on weekends”. If you google the article you can also find a vast pantheon of scientists tearing this research apart (it’s about as entertaining as science gets). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011JD016214/abstract

Without doing the calculations, I’d guess that the effects of aerosols on conductivity is extremely minimal with regards to lightning. The effect the authors are likely referring to has to do with the fact that clouds droplets almost always form on pollution particles (“cloud condensation nuclei”). Having more of…

A few things to note:

It’s a prime opportunity for graft and corruption. Every cost overrun, every delay in building facilities is lining somebody’s pocket (the IOC is a happy partner in this enterprise, just as FIFA is in the World Cup). The trick is convincing the people that it’s in their best interests (which it manifestly is not).

The Italian Job

Kinda amazed you went the whole article without mentioning “marginal gains” once.

I’d guess that money has far more leverage in cycling, where the athletes make an order of magnitude (or two) less than in other sports.

That’s selling Fuglsang short, though he did abandon. That said, the team does not seem well-managed, as was evidenced when Aru lost the MJ for no good reason at all.

Not to mention they put them on a fucking grill! The animals!

I’m so sad I had to scroll for three minutes and wander into the grays to see this.

I *think* time trials favor riders who can put out large wattage over a long period of time. Climbers can put out a lot of power *relative* to their bodyweight, which doesn’t help when the main opposing force is drag. Sprinters can put out huge power but only over, say, a few hundred meters. They’re basically useless…

Yes, I meant two years ago it was a surprise. Upon further consideration, I think you’re right in general. Mid/late 20s to early 30s appear to be the peak years for GC men (with people like Ullrich being an exception — a GC threat at 22). Dumoulin is just entering this golden window, and hopefully has more successes…

I fell like this is more like a Boardman or Tony Martin (TT specialist) evolving into a GC man. All the others (maybe besides Wiggins) seemed to always have been good in the mountains for a long time. It seems to have been a bit of a surprise to everyone (Dumoulin included) that he could go uphill well.

What a happy moment!! I’ve been waiting the bulk of my life for this! My father (a Dutchman) introduced me to cycling at a tender age, and would send me VHS tapes of tour highlights in college (pre-internet age). I’m very happy to see a Dutch rider win a grand tour, just sorry my dad isn’t around to enjoy it with me.

Marginal gains

Conversely: with Kelderman, or without gastrointestinal distress, Tom would have been out of sight well before the final stages. And I saw him doing the lion’s share of the pacemaking the last two stages (though hard to tell 100% from TV coverage)

Both are relatively unique in exactly that regard, and Indurain perhaps more so owing to his freakish physique (see wikipedia for crazy stats). Of course, it’s tough to judge the 90's/00's bc of doping.

Infrared emission, Fig. 4 here: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6340/821/tab-figures-data