Gold Coast Comm Games
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I did not realise Hamish Bond took up cycling. What an athlete.
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Time trials must be one of the hardest to do mentally as you don't have someone to chase or stay in front of, it is all about making sure you are telling your body not to give up and rest.
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The coverage leaving plenty to be desired.
The host broadcast fucked up the second checkpoint timing, so for a large part of the race no-one had any idea of how far Tanfield and Meyer were ahead of Bond (we had to make do with the assurances of the Australian commentators that he was bound to win by at least a minute) - no coverage of Meyer riding the beast, because we were away having a canned interview with Villumsen. Bibby apparently had a mechanical - but, we were heading to an ad break....
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The coverage has fucked me off both because of the ads and cutaways at the worst possible time, but also the interviews make me CRINGE. The questions are vapid, and so often (especially from the newer athletes) you can see on their faces WTF is this shit? The more experienced ones can bland it out. But last night with Tom Walsh, and the interviewer basically ordering him to thank NZ...that was just gross.
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@mokey said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Something happened with Bond also - interference by a motorbike or something? I saw a mention of that on the Stuff live blog.
Yeah - Cam Meyer's brother ran him off the road and held him down for 30 seconds.
I think they said the motorbike disturbed some road cones. Would only have needed to slow Hamish up a few seconds to shift him from silver to bronze.
Edit: "Bond had a brief frustrating moment before the halfway stage when he was impeded by an official on a motorbike - who was trying to avoid a team car which had pulled over - and then almost immediately after had to avoided a road cone that had fallen into his path."
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@chris-b said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@mokey said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Something happened with Bond also - interference by a motorbike or something? I saw a mention of that on the Stuff live blog.
Yeah - Cam Meyer's brother ran him off the road and held him down for 30 seconds.
I think they said the motorbike disturbed some road cones. Would only have needed to slow Hamish up a few seconds to shift him from silver to bronze.
Edit: "Bond had a brief frustrating moment before the halfway stage when he was impeded by an official on a motorbike - who was trying to avoid a team car which had pulled over - and then almost immediately after had to avoided a road cone that had fallen into his path."
nefarious!
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@chris-b said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Edit: "Bond had a brief frustrating moment before the halfway stage when he was impeded by an official on a motorbike - who was trying to avoid a team car which had pulled over - and then almost immediately after had to avoided a road cone that had fallen into his path."
I was that official.
I have no regrets.
CARN AUSSIE
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@barbarian said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@chris-b said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Edit: "Bond had a brief frustrating moment before the halfway stage when he was impeded by an official on a motorbike - who was trying to avoid a team car which had pulled over - and then almost immediately after had to avoided a road cone that had fallen into his path."
I was that official.
I have no regrets.
CARN AUSSIE
I heard they taped sandpaper onto the road in front of Bond
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@chris-b said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Australian cycling commentators grating like sandpaper - apparently both time trials were over at the 10km mark.
Yeah like winning 467 golds already isn’t enough for the fluffybunnies.
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