Troppa bora a Trieste,chiusa fino a mezzogiorno la Fiera Trieste Next, un festival della scienza in Piazza Unita'. Trieste sara' la capitale europea della scienza nel 2020. Vedremo cosa succede alla regata Barcolana, con le sue duemila barche.

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Time trial Innsbruck World Championship
1 Rohan Dennis Australia
2 Tom Dumoulin Nederlands
3 Victor Campenaerts Belgium

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No. Only individual time trials, ITT, will follow before the road races.
Anyway, UCI has now decided to not have TTT's from next year.

This was the Team trial. National team trials will follow. I saw only the men trial, Quick Step won.

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Cycling World Championships Team time trial, Innsbruck
I thought the teams should be national but apparently not any longer.
The winners.
Women Canyon-SRAM, Germany?
Men Quick-Step Floors, Belgium?

Moto GP Aragon
1 Marc Marquez Honda
2 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati
3 Andrea Iannone Suzuki

Jorge Lorenzo falls on first lap. Rossi only eighth. Marquez always leader.

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Oktober Fest has started in Munich. One liter glass of beer costs eleven euros, so there are more Swiss visitors than Italian visitors. I've learned that if a waitress has knotted the left site of her apron, she needs a companion, if she has knotted the right side she has a companion. Beware!
Tullio

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Giro di Toscana, near the Bientina home of my son and his family. Another near place is Cascina, home of the Italian/French Virgo interferometer which discovered its first gravitational wave and is now getting an upgrade.

1 Gianni Moscon
2 Romain Bardet France
3 Domenico Pozzovivo

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Preparing for the Innsbruck World Championship Gianni Moscon has won the Coppa Agostoni in Lissone and Sonny Colbrelli the Trofeo Baracchi in Legnano. Today Tre Valli Varesine.
Tullio

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Simon Yates wins 2018 Vuelta a Espana
My favorite veteran Alejandro Valverde in 5th place.

Oh. Starbucks in Italy. LOL;)
Why not Pizza Hut as well?

I drink coffee every day with a Moka "caffettiera" which makes a good Espresso. My favored coffee is Illy from Trieste, my home town, which offers a range of coffee grains from Africa (Ethiopia), Brazil, Haiti and Colombia. We don't need Starbucks, it's just a mode.
Tullio

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Hi Tullio,
Is coffee not a popular drink over there ?

I drink it every day )

Best Regards,
Bill

Singapore Grand Prix
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2 Max Verstappen Red Bull
3 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari
Lewis leads by 40 points over Vettel

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The first Starbucks cafeteria opened in downtown Milano in an old Post Office building. To me Starbuck is the name of the First Mate of Pequod, the ship of Captain Achab, in Melville's book, Moby Dick.To bring coffee to Milano can be a chase of a white sperm whale. Good luck to them.
Tullio

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GP Moto San Marino
1 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati
2 Marc Marquez Honda
3 Cat Crutchlow Honda
Marquez mantains his leadership
Rossi only 7th

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E' in edicola il numero commemorativo del cinquantesimo anno di Le Scienze, edizione italiana di Scientific American. Come al solto, non c;e' alcuna menzione di BOINC e di SETI@home. Si parla solo di Breakthrough Listen e di Yuri Milner, che e' sostanzialmente l'ultimo arrivato. Nei suoi blogs ho cercato di parlare di BOINC,senza alcuna risposta da parte del suo direttore, Marco Cattaneo.
Tullio

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In cycling crashes happens quite often. But after the finish line?
Well in the Vuelta a Espana yesterday it happened when an organisation official caused one!
About 30 meters after the finish, a leaping official appeared in front of the cyclists and was hit by winning Geniez and then Van Baarle crashed hard against the official.
"I do not understand why there are so many people in the finish area," said Geniez, who was caught by a police in his case and avoided damage.
van Baarle had extensive superficial damage to the shoulder, elbow, ribs, hip and hemorrhage but hopes to continue.

Video https://www.svt.se/sport/artikel/funktionar-orsakade-svart-krasch-i-vueltan
Vueltan later apologized for the incident that occurred just where the photographers were standing, making the area really crowded...

Anyway GC after stage 12.
1 Jesus Herrada (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 50:28:56
2 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:03:22
3 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:03:23
4 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:03:36
5 Ion Izagirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida 0:03:39

GP Monza
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari
3 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes
4 Sebastian Vettel Ferrai
Usual Vettel mistake at first lap, hitting Hamilton's car and becoming last

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E' morto a 96 anni Luca Cavalli Sforza, genetista di fama internazionale, professore alle Universita' di Pavia e Stanford, di cui era professore emerito. RIP
Tullio

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Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson lost control of the car and crashed violently during a training session at Monza in Italy today. The team Sauber states that the cause was due to the rear wing DRS not closing after braking.
Immediately after the crash, Marcus Ericsson said on team radio:
- I'm fine. I do not know what happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_cFk8n724A
https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-autosport/1011315/F1-crash-Marcus-Ericsson-Sauber-video