Anticipation

Extreme.com have all the results from that city downhill race in Bratislava, where there were winners and losers and more trashed wheels than you perhaps expect in any event.

Elsewhere we are within two weeks of the start of the Tour de France in Yorkshire, and with England out of the Football World Cup, more media attention can switch to cycling perhaps, as long as the extra pressure on Team Sky and the other British interests doesn't have the traditional effect of making the athletes under-perform drastically.

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