sportsevent:the tour de france

Tour de France. The police attacked Christopher Froome
▻https://vaaju.com/poland/tour-de-france-the-police-attacked-christopher-froome

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The situation came shortly after the Tour de France 17th stage. Froome went down, finishing her trip a few minutes earlier, putting on a jacket that would protect him from the cold and headed for the bus in his team. Then he was attacked by one of the police who watched the order during the race. The officer would respond, inter alia, to observing safety and preventing fans from entering the rider zone.

The policeman drove Froome off the bike and tried to stop him. The player was first surprised and then began to disturb the official. This, after a dozen seconds, he let the rider enter.

" It was a misunderstanding, all right, Chris is fine – Team Sky spokesman said after the event.

The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God - Issue 28: 2050
▻http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/the-philosopher-who-says-we-should-play-god

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Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu has a knack for provocation. Take human cloning. He says most of us would readily accept it if it benefited us. As for eugenics—creating smarter, stronger, more beautiful babies—he believes we have an ethical obligation to use advanced technology to select the best possible children. A protégé of the philosopher Peter Singer, Savulescu is a prominent moral philosopher at the University of Oxford, where he directs the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He also edits the Journal of Medical Ethics. Savulescu isn’t shy about stepping onto ethical minefields. He sees nothing wrong with doping to help cyclists climb those steep mountains in the Tour de France. Some elite athletes will always cheat to boost their performance, so instead of trying to (...)

Top Finishers of the Tour de France Tainted by Doping

►http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/24/sports/top-finishers-of-the-tour-de-france-tainted-by-doping.html

Since 1998, more than a third of the top finishers of the Tour de France have admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs at some point in their careers or have been officially linked to doping. The grid below shows the original top-10 placements in each of the past 15 years. Riders pictured have either tested positive, admitted to doping or been sanctioned by an official cycling or antidoping agency. Cyclists whose sanctions were later overturned are not included.

#dopage

What the Death of Google Labs Means for Innovation at Google
►http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/what-the-death-of-google-labs-means-for-innovation-at-google/242265

There are a lot of useless Google Labs features. A few examples: Play, a failed attempt to make scrolling through your RSS feeds in Google Reader more interesting; Tashkeel, an entire service meant to help you find which diacritics are missing from Arabic text; and Realtime MyTracks, which allows you to follow the nine riders from Team HTC in the Tour de France as they race across the country.

#Google #Google_Labs #intelligence_collective #open_source