Langkawi

indeed yes

i know about it but you guys got global audiences so we gotta just tell them the lore of mastery so for those of you who may not know the legend of mastery it's actually a malaysian folk tale about an innocent woman whose execution brought a 200 year curse upon the island of langkawi So the story goes, in the late 18th century, a beautiful, kind woman named Maseri lived on Langkawi Island and married a warrior named Wan Darus.

Actually, if I'm wrong, please don't cancel me.

I found it online, okay? You can do your own research also.

And then when they stabbed her, white blood flowed from her wound forever.

proving her absolute innocence to the horrified villagers.

Now you feel wrong, huh? In her final breaths, Masri cursed Langkawi to experience seven generations of bad luck, barren land and failed crops.

The legend stated that Langkawi suffered decades of war and poverty until the 1980s.

Is the haze stopping you from joining fun activities or events, particularly ones that are major, that are outdoors? We are asking because this is the weekend of the confusingly but aptly named Bahrain Grand Prix weekend.

For Formula One, we've also got the Tour de Langkawi, we've also got the Standard Chartered Kale Marathon.

And so all of these things take place outdoors.

And therefore, there have been questions for participants, for people who are just going to spectate, for all of these things.

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It's 6.36 and you're listening to Talk Back Thursday with Lynn and Susan asking you tonight, is the haze stopping you from basically having fun outdoors? And in your view, should event organisers and the government be quicker to cancel events for the sake of public health? We are, of course, talking about this on the, not the eve, but, you know, with this weekend having the Kale Marathon event, Formula One, the Tour de Langkawi, so lots of big events, all of which take place outdoors.

So let us know your take.

But other than this, is there any other race that we haven't talked about, Patrick? I mean, there was Paris-Charles-Chauny won by Pavel Bitner.

We had, well, we have the Tour of Langkawi going on right now and Astana are busy point farming still.

and asian games happened uh lutsenko is now the double asian games road race and time trial champion so uh yeah that was interesting but other than that i think it's only like lower level races that we haven't really looked at before we get to rider of the week as well

yeah it was just Is the Tour of Poyang Lake still going on? It is.

He had a stage win of the Il Giro d'Abruzzo just gone a couple of weeks ago.

So yeah, a really good ride from him, but I think that pretty much covers all the lower level races.

yeah um some really interesting teams in the Tour of Langkawi as well it's definitely a strong field but anyways right out of the week in this world championship edition Patrick um I almost want to say to be a sva but uh that that seems wrong when it's the world championship obviously I'm gonna pick him because he's Danish but I'm going to go for Brendan McNulty.

I'll just put it there.