#take it froom google guys

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The three times Athy wore this color! wich is often associated with "confidence, assurance, and vividness. It is a color that demands attention, encouraging a sense of playfulness and creativity. The fuchsia color brings to mind maturity, assurance, and self-confidence"

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Machai /1100 ./

mans eating ice cream

Something that felt like deja vu: moving to la (y) always thought I would move here. Felt like where I was supposed to b.

describe something ur working on in 4 words without telling me what it is: a beautiful fucking thing

was it worth it? Absolutely (Y tho) cause I’d b dead without it

something overrated that’s actually underrated: LA 

last text u sent: photo of a weed plant I’m growing

/I found a seed in the weed and put it in dirt and its growing now

//Machai got a green thumb 

favorite childhood vacation memory: went to an all inclusive in Jamaica and got my own hotel room separate from my parents. The fridge was stocked with beer and I got drunk asl. I got hella food at the buffet and bought weed from guy from the beach. I was 13 or 14. 

/Parents there for a medical conference 

//best vacation ever

///dance party on the beach and every1 was there getting turnt

how many missed texts: 13. I check my message cause hate notifications. I hate 2 sit there n think about a response. I sit on the text back

do u have a bedframe? Yea 

preferred mode of travel: (if car r u driving?) prob... damn this a fye question ngl. fuck. it’s a tie bro. heavy tie between boats and being in the back of a big ass car.

Not a fan on limos tho. Big body uber could b in that bitch 4 the rest of my life. When I’m famous I b pulling up in 17 Escalades.

ima get an uber juss for my backpack when im famous

Fav song when u were 12: day n nite. would listen when I would skate.

New Cudi is so fye I was juss listening

Ski mask? The one u wear ?

Butterfly: effect 

1100: a belief system (a cult ?) It could b but it not yet. nah im playing it a belief system for believing in yourself. 11 is an angelic # for divine intervention. I hope all that is Devine comes to u with speed

Trees or street lights: it literally depends on the mood but rt now trees

goes back home to Redding every once and a while to chill out. 1 - 2 weeks max b4 getting back to the city.

nickname: bear. looked like a bear when younger

Thoughts on google drive: it cool. more a WeTransfer guy. WeTransfer beats > google drive beats

Will the revolution be televised: it will 100,000% def it already is 

Teleport anywhere rt now: Charli D'Amelio house and asking her 2 make a tiktok wit me

If u could b an animal: lesiure or fav?? (idk like a party trick) penguin def ong. snap my fingers n turn into penguin. that legendary. 

Fav grade of skool: 8th grade cause could do whatever. I would tell my teachers im leaving n would go 2 the movie theater and dollar store next 2 school. that entire year never went to school

Shoutout Mr. Froom n Mr. Kelly They the realest teachers

How many racks is 2 many racks: none. no such thing. actually no no no a pocket full. no actually once ur 4pf then u good

Most important part of a fit: how u put it together. If u can put it together right and believe in urself, shit a dub

Was it logical? No absolutely not (expand). Nah

U going 2 mars I got a ticket: yes repopulating all of mars errr1 gotta b lit tho 

Thing ur taking from ur room if fire: jewelry box fs n my stuffed animals 

I got this Dino skeleton stuffed animal in Seattle. that it.

Person u look up 2: young thug

Brand loyal? Yea Rick Owens. I wanna get every color.

New Years resolution: make more $

Gas station order: 2 packs of dutch, 2 naked strawberry banana, sweet tart ropes, Stacys garlic and herbs chips and a cool toy “preferably sticky hands” 

Promo: this is a paid promotion by a n**ga who legit dont give a fuck at all

Ion kno how 2 say this shit

Instagram clothes 

“1700 on a fit aint shit” -whosaidthat? I dont know. I genuintly dont know

I should call my mom

Teeth whitening kit

Some waters taste better than other waters

Anything u gotta tell the ppl: wash your face

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The history and unwritten rules of crashing at the Tour de France

Cycling’s biggest race has a long history of crashes. Here is a guide to the unwritten rules of the Tour de France’s most harrowing moments.

Crashes are the worst thing about cycling, especially at the Tour de France. They’re violent and disruptive, and they hurt riders who trained all year to be at the Tour only to go home in bandages. They rob us of fun and rob teams of million-dollar investments.

Why, already after Stage 1 of the 2018 edition, four-time winner Chris Froome has lost 51 seconds because he went over a canvas barrier into a ditch. On Stage 8, another favorite, Dan Martin, suffered a hard fall.

And yet we can’t get rid of them. Crashes are as much a part of the sport as the pneumatic tire. They even have their own set of rules, written and unwritten, which often cause cycling’s deeply analytical fanbase to lose its minds for days on end.

Here, then, is your Tour de France crash primer: what they are about, and how they happen, so when that instant comes (and it always comes) you will know what you’re looking at.

To start with, let’s stipulate that nearly all crashes happen for two basic reasons: 1) Two bikes can’t be in the same place at the same time, and 2) Cyclists are fundamentally insane.

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Ah crap

There are many types of cycling crashes

Crashes start with a rider losing his balance. Sometimes guys bump shoulders and someone goes down. Sometimes riders go down without the help of their competitors, hitting something in the road, overcooking a corner, or slipping on a wet spot (painted surfaces are not your friend on a rainy day).

But the big bunch crashes usually start with a touch of wheels. If you’re packed tightly going 40 miles per hour, trouble could come from any direction. Maybe the guy in front of you taps his brakes at the wrong time, or maybe you aren’t paying attention when the peloton slows down, and your furiously spinning rubber tire rubs up with someone else’s tire spinning the other way.

Usually you’re the one going down in this scenario — front wheels jerk sideways much more easily than rear wheels — and the people around you fall like bowling pins. Fortunes are lost (and, by process of elimination, won) in these moments; in the Tour de France one of those bowling pins could be the favorite to win, and if his helmet or collarbone isn’t up to the impact, a year’s worth of blood, sweat, and tears will have meant nothing.

Bunch crashes on the flats are bad enough, but usually the victims are able to get up and go on. The horror crashes typically happen on descents, where riders have even died from hitting the deck at high speed. Sometimes those bad impacts are due to bad luck. Heads have limits to what they can sustain, even inside a helmet.

Those are the crashes that leave a mark on the soul of the sport. Obviously the fate of the rider and his loved ones are the real story, but we fans have scars on our souls, too, that ache every time we hear names like Weylandt and Casartelli and Goolaerts.

But nobody wants to talk about those. The crashes we talk about the most happen in sprints. We accept them as part of the sport, even joke about them sometimes because, amazingly, riders tend to emerge intact, or close to it.

Google “Haselbacher” and “crash” and you will be treated to articles about an Austrian sprinter known for the occasional cartwheel in the final meters of sprints. (Rene Haselbacher is his name, and he’d like you to forget that he was known for crashing too much, thank you.) We got some mileage out of a crash in Turkey a few years back where it looked like Dutch sprinter Theo Bos had pulled a nifty little sumo maneuver in taking out Daryl Impey as the pair dueled down the stretch.

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Rene Haselbacher made a bit too much of a name for himself in the 1990s

Cycling crashes are governed by a ton of unwritten rules

When we debate who did what to whom is when things get … complicated. Sprint crashes are 99 percent the fault of someone moving sideways, in direct violation of the written rule that you have to hold your line in the sprint.

Nobody cares about written rules. I reiterate what I wrote above: cyclists, and especially sprinters, are fundamentally off their rockers, and will try to fit themselves into spaces where they don’t belong any way they can. At 45 miles per hour.

Everybody takes cycling’s unwritten rules very seriously, however, even though no one can agree on what they are. At last year’s Tour, two of the Usual Suspects of cycling controversy took center stage when reigning World Champion Peter Sagan came along the right-side barriers ahead of former rainbow jersey holder Mark Cavendish, who seemed to want to slip past Sagan in the six or seven inches of space between the Slovakian and the rows of tempered steel outlining the course.

Sagan had problems of his own to manage, sitting third wheel behind Arnaud Demare (who would take the win) and only the gap to Demare’s right available. Sagan seemed to move into the space, toward the barrier, slamming the door on Cavendish, who went down in a heap and out of the Tour.

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Cavendish losing his balance as Sagan’s elbow flares out

No one could agree on what happened. Cavendish sure looked like the victim, with Sagan clearly flaring out his elbow. That is, until you slow down the tape and realize that Cavendish seemed to be going down before the elbow went out, and that Sagan appeared to be correcting his balance, shifting his weight to the right to stop himself from keeling over to the left.

Was the crash Sagan’s fault for pinning Cavendish against the barrier, or Cavendish’s fault for sticking his nose where it didn’t belong? Was it Demare’s fault for moving in to create the circumstances of the crash? Was it somehow Nacer Bouhanni’s fault? (One unwritten rule that most can agree on is that Bouhanni is doing something wrong at all times).

Sagan ultimately got the blame for making an almost imperceptible move to hinder Cavendish. Tempers flared, ending a while later when the race jury threw Sagan off the Tour, a decision that no one particularly liked.

The episode was a good lesson in how crashes aren’t always what they appear to be at first glance — or second, third, and fourth glance, for that matter.

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Bystanders and rescue workers help retrieve Roger Rivière from a hillside in the 1960 Tour

From time to time, cyclists will just fall off a mountain

One last, particularly memorable category of crashes merits discussion: riders falling off mountains. In my memory they all have somewhat miraculous endings … knock on wood, cross myself, and say a little prayer to the Cycling Gods.

The dramatic history starts with Roger Rivière falling into a ravine on a descent of the 1960 Tour. The maillot jaune, following his rival and ace descender Gustavo Nencini, hit the retaining wall and disappeared, falling 20 meters and breaking two vertebrae, but surviving. Even crazier was the disappearance of Tour boss Bernard Hinault on the eve of his first campaign. In the 1977 Dauphiné, Hinault, in the race lead, lost control on a descent, flipped sideways, and fell off the road. Hinault initially thought he was plunging to his death, but somehow landed intact, got help climbing out of the ravine, and went on to win the stage.

More recently, Frank Schleck, a poor bike handler, flipped over a guardrail on a descent during the 2008 Tour de Suisse and completely disappeared. Those of us watching thought he was dead, but he hit some branches on his way down and got away with scratches and bruises, finishing the race. A month later at the Tour, John-Lee Augustyn ascended the Cime de la Bonette, Europe’s highest road, only to overcook a turn and slide 30 feet down a steep, rocky slope. He eventually crawled out gingerly on all fours, but his chances of winning were gone, as was his bike, which was last seen still sliding. Augustyn eventually got a new one and finished the stage five minutes back.

This is all to say that cyclists are shockingly resilient despite the lack of protection around their bird-like frames. With any luck, crashes won’t be the talk of the Tour anytime soon, but they’ve come to be as inevitable as death, taxes, and Germany advancing at the World Cup.

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General classification after stage 18:

1. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) 74hrs 21mins 1sec

2. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Team Sunweb) +1min 59secs

3. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +2mins 31secs

4. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Team LottoNL-Jumbo) +2mins 47secs

5. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar Team) +3mins 30secs

6. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned/Lotto NL-Jumbo) +4mins 19secs

7. Mikel Landa (Spa/Movistar) +4mins 34secs

8. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R La Mondiale) +5mins 13secs

9. Daniel Martin (Ire/UAE Team Emirates) +6mins 33secs

10. Jakob Fuglsang (Den/Astana) +9mins 31secs

      – 95.9km left on Thursday stage, from Lourdes to Laueren in the Pyrenees; team sky still leading with Thomas in yellow, Dumoulin in 2nd and Froome in 3rd; 4th and 5th not far behind; it’s lougic and Quintana, the nimble and climber Columbian;

at the moment it’s 2min 57secs in front of the “maillot jaune”; with Landa in the 1st chasing group, and bardet in the 2nd chasing group; Alaphillip is the “polka dot” jersey in the “Tete de la tour”…….

I think it’s 2.6m to the top of the “col de Tourmalet” – an HC climb…….team sky in the peloton chasing down the guys in front; Thomas in yellow is well protected in the leading chase group;

1) dedication

2) desire

3) devotion

4) dream

5) daring

6) damn if you don’t; damn if you do!

7) didgeridoo

8)

they are descending now; the Movistar team are the leading team at the moment; maybe they’ve the best climbers, descenders, sprint and overall talents in their group – with Mikel Landa, Quintana, etc………

3h ago11:44

Lance Armstrong speaks: I was listening to Lance Armstrong’s The Move podcast on my way into Guardian Towers this morning and in his preview of today’s stage, the former cyclist suggested there might yet be a twist in the tail of this year’s Tour.

“My spidey sense tells me … I dunno, I just feel like this race isn’t over,” he said, in conversation with his former team-mate George Hincapie. “Somebody is gonna have a bad day. I think if Geraint Thomas has a bad day, then Chris Froome will do whatever he wants to do and he has every right to. [Thomas] would have to get tossed on the Tourmalet, very early.

“It is a very, very hard climb. I dunno … it’s gonna be the Team Sky show again. They’re so strong and so dominant as a unit. Even having lost Gianni Moscon, it’s like they’re totally unaffected.”

 Lance Armstrong reckons there might be a twist in the tail of this year’s Tour. Photograph: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images

4h ago11:05

Stage 19, Lourdes-Laruns (200.5km)

From William Fotheringham’s stage-by-stage preview: A final day of classic Pyrenean climbing: the triptych of Aspin, Tourmalet, Aubisque – climbed via the little known Col des Bordères – before a descent to the finish. A holding operation before the next day’s time trial for whoever is in yellow, with a break going all the way – someone such as Rafal Majka for the win – and perhaps a final fight for the King of the Mountains jersey.

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 Geraint Thomas fans in full effect. Photograph: Christophe Ena/AP

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3h agoThomas to avoid crowds during crucial stage

4h agoGeraint Thomas’s date with destiny

4h agoGuardian report: Arnaud demare wins stage 18

4h agoStage 19, Lourdes-Laruns (200.5km)

3m ago14:34

It’s Well For Some Dept: “We are on holiday with no access to a TV and your updates and humour have been most useful and appreciated,” writes Sarah Parke. “Off for a Sangria but taking you along with us!” Careful with those roaming charges!

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4m ago14:33

Mikel Landa: The Movistar began this morning in seventh place on General Classification, 4min 34sec off the pace and is steadily pedalling his way into the top five at the moment. He and his colleagues are being buffeted by a very strong wind as they make their way down the Tourmalet.

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7m ago14:30

91km to go: the two leading groups go over the top of the Tourmalet within 42 seconds of each other and begin their descent. It’s fairly straightforward by professional cycling standards, although if I tried it I’d almost certainly kill myself. The yellow jersey group is approximately two minutes behind the leaders.

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9m ago14:27

92km to go: The aforementioned half-dozen have a lead of 30 seconds over the six-strong group with Landa, Majka and Yates in it.

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10m ago14:26

93km to go: A little over a kilometre to the top of the Tourmalet, at nearly 2,000m where the air is thin.

Warren Barguil (Fortuneo-Samsic), Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step), Gorka Izagirre (Bahrain-Merida), Mikel Nieve (Mitchelton-Scott), Bob Jungels (Quick-Step) and Tanel Kangert (Astana) lead the way.

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The favourites hit the summit of the Col du Tourmalet.

That leaves two categorised climbs to negotiate – the Col des Borderes and the Col d’Aubisque.

Can Team Sky drag back Mikel Landa? Will we see more attacks from the GC contenders?

ellie soutter……..here’s 2 u… Lizzy Yarnold‏ @LizYarnold FollowFollow @LizYarnold More Big love to Ellie Soutter's family and friends. I can't imagine...