@GrogsGamut
@AmyRemeikis
Purchasing the old coal based power plants sounds like to gift to the current owners. No need for them to clean up the site, or even decommission the plant, as the government would pick up that tab, plus paying the owners for the privilege of doing so. Win, win, profit.
OK
#CouchPeloton
#TrollTips
is back for
#TDF2023
. There is no troll to beat, you need to pick the winner of the stage instead. Points for the top 10 places but there are bonus points on offer if you pick someone that less than 4 people pick (also extends to top 20).
#CouchPeloton
I will not be running a
#TrollTips
for stage 1 of
#LaVuelta23
(the team time trial) as it doesn't make much sense and I'm not sure I'm going to watch it live anyway (I'll get my TT fix with tonight's Tour of Scandinavia ITT).
#CouchPeloton
here are the
#8NationsTDF
teams for this year. Please check that I have included your team and that I have correctly selected the riders. Good luck everyone.
@BenjiNaesen
So they go at the same speed as the other traffic and it's too fast. I suspect that it they were going at 30 then they would have been abused for blocking said traffic.
This should be of no surprise to the
#couchpeloton
"Astana hopes to bring Mark Cavendish back to the 2024 Tour de France, despite his planned retirement at the end of the season."
#CouchPeloton
quite a short stage (137.8km) tonight and so I'm going to change the
#TrollTips
deadline. For tonight you have until 60km to go to submit your pick. It is still very flat until then so anything can happen.
#CouchPeloton
here are the
#8NationsTDF
teams submitted so far. You have until km 0 of stage 1 tonight to submit a team. Let me know if I've missed you, or stuffed up your team.
#CouchPeloton
let me know if you see this post
#TrollTips
Hopefully we don't have a repeat of last night where search of hashtags wasn't working.
I'm happy to take your picks via Mastodon too.
#CouchPeloton
and in a major boil over
@ChrisPana9
leaps from 5th place to grab the overall
#TrollTips
competition from
@Mandy_McEvoy
by a single point. I take 3rd place (and I am the first out of the players playing a different rider per stage).
#CouchPeloton
here are the squads for
#8NationsGiro
I am waiting on confirmations on a couple of squads but if you are missing and you thought that you submitted a team then let me know.
Good luck everyone, and enjoy the first Grand Tour of the year.
#moa
@WajahatAli
Both BlueSky and Spoutible are very beta at the moment and US centric as is Post. Mastodon has its pluses and minuses but is more mature and has a variety of apps. If you are adventurous then there are more platforms in the fediverse like calckey that have different features.
For those on the
#CouchPeloton
wondering what would have been the best
#8NationsLVE
team to have picked...
🇧🇪EVENEPOEL Remco
🇦🇺GROVES Kaden
🇩🇰VINGEGAARD Jonas
🇸🇮ROGLIČ Primož
🇮🇹GANNA Filippo
🇺🇸KUSS Sepp
🇳🇱POELS Wout
🇪🇸AYUSO Juan
for 634 points, cf
@BriarFlyer
571 points.
#CouchPeloton
Tonight's
#TrollTips
deadline is 70km to go. I'll be watching the Giro d'Italia Women so don't panic if I'm slow to acknowledge your pick 😎
Good evening
#CouchPeloton
tonight's
#TrollTips
deadline is 80km to go. Please
@markrprior
with your tip in case Twitter fails to keep the rubber side down again tonight.
#CouchPeloton
good to hear that
@NettieEdmo
wants the women's
@tourdownunder
to have more stages. Maybe we can get a prologue so the national TT champs get to show off their jerseys. Also more opportunities for more teams to win a stage and justify the trip.
#CouchPeloton
I'm joining
@sophoife
with a
#TrollTips
deadline of the KOM point on the Col de Manse with 82.2 km to go. Results might need to wait until tomorrow as I'm knackered.
#CouchPeloton
Tonight's
#TrollTips
deadline will be at the KOM point on Côte de Montcléra (68.1 km to go). I won't be tagging people on the deadline warnings as that seems to offend Twitter and put me in bot jail.
#CouchPeloton
looks like km zero is now at 22:30 AEST. First rider across the mountain point at Croix de Coeur will act as the
#TrollTips
deadline tonight. That will possibly give you 45 minutes to make up your mind and leave 59.1km of "racing" to go. I'll re-evaluate later.
#Giro
🇮🇹
The riders rolled out for the neutralised section to honour the host town of Le Châble 💕
The riders will now get back on the team buses and head to the new start location with the stage set to officially start at 2.30pm CEST (10.30pm AEST) ⏰
#CouchPeloton
I'm using my Primoz Roglic card tonight for
#TrollTips
although I wouldn't be surprised if Healy puts the wind up Pinot and then Gee wins just because... 🤣
#CouchPeloton
tonight is a short mountain stage so tonight's
#TrollTips
deadline is the summit of Col de la Schlucht with 54.1 km to go. This is a hard deadline so once a rider gets the KOM points
#TrollTips
is closed.
Rigoberto Urán has tested positive for Covid after displaying symptoms this evening. He will leave the Giro and take this time to rest before he resumes racing.
I might yet change it
#CouchPeloton
but here is my
#8NationsTDF
squad.
🇦🇺EWAN Caleb
🇪🇷GIRMAY Biniam
🇺🇸JORGENSON Matteo
🇸🇮POGAČAR Tadej
🇧🇪VAN AERT Wout
🇳🇱VAN DER POEL Mathieu
🇩🇰VINGEGAARD Jonas
🇬🇧WRIGHT Fred