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Plenty large Palestinian flags visible at cycling tours of Spain and Britain.

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 4, 2024, 8:13 am

Every day in Spain (La Vuelta) for past 2 1/2 weeks at the finish of each stage.

Tour of Britain has just started but flags there as well.

Good on ye guys!

Mind you, most people wouldn't know a Palestinian flag if they fell over it.

Mind you, most people wouldn't know a Palestinian flag if they fell over it....

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 4, 2024, 9:02 am, in reply to "Plenty large Palestinian flags visible at cycling tours of Spain and Britain."

This guy would...or did!

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Poor devil looking for a flag for Saturday's anti-genocide march, no doubt? nm

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 4, 2024, 5:36 pm, in reply to "Mind you, most people wouldn't know a Palestinian flag if they fell over it...."

Unfortunately, an Israel backed team has taken/is taking part. Hope they get rattled (nm)

Posted by sashimi <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=sashimi' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 4, 2024, 10:25 am, in reply to "Plenty large Palestinian flags visible at cycling tours of Spain and Britain."

Nearly all pro sportsmen will do anything for a few bob. Heartless fecks.

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 4, 2024, 5:50 pm, in reply to "Unfortunately, an Israel backed team has taken/is taking part. Hope they get rattled (nm)"

Israel Premier Tech has had no trouble hiring some of the world's best cyclists. And they're doing well. Feckin' hate 'em. And I used love all pro cyclists.

The way the word 'Israel' just rolls off the tongues of the lily-livered commentators fair makes my blood boil.

The good news is their best cyclist, the Australian Michael Woods, didn't start today.

Re: Nearly all pro sportsmen will do anything for a few bob. Heartless fecks.

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 4, 2024, 6:57 pm, in reply to "Nearly all pro sportsmen will do anything for a few bob. Heartless fecks."

Same here.
Being a bit of a road racer myself many any years ago now, I used to love all the cycling, all the tours and events.
The inclusion of Israel backed teams in any of them now, makes it pretty unwatchable for me these days.
What does it is exactly what you say...it's the casual way Israel is included in the commentary when they are committing genocide, daily war crimes, endorsing rare and torture of prisoners etc from their vicious little apartheid state.
Can't be doing with it or the commentators normalising that.

I'm watching snooker at the moment. Live from Saudi Arabia.

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 4, 2024, 8:08 pm, in reply to "Re: Nearly all pro sportsmen will do anything for a few bob. Heartless fecks."

£500,000 for the winner.

And they're all oohing and awing about the facilities. They know where their bread is buttered.

Everybody turns a blind eye to the closet with the whips. Or the hamper basket where they store the chopped off heads and hands.

Tempted to send Ronnie o'Sullivan (my sometime hero) a message to ask him to visit the prisons while he's there.

Sheet, they'll probably be in Israel next year.

I'd probably have had a season ticket for the Coliseum in the old days.

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on September 4, 2024, 8:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Nearly all pro sportsmen will do anything for a few bob. Heartless fecks."

Getting all the autographs of the top gladiators.

I'm well aware that spectators are very much part of the problem. I'm working on it. Very slowly.

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