Gold Coast Comm Games
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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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@canefan said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@chris-b said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@canefan said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@chris-b said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Nasty.
Reality of her lifting with the women is that she was in her own competition anyway - her first lift was 7kg more than the best lift of the next best competitor.
How do you deal with all this if you're a sports administrator?
I reckon you allow transgender athletes and blade-runners etc to compete with the other athletes, but you have extra medals. e.g. If Laurel wins overall then she gets a gold, but so does the first natural born woman. If she comes second she gets a silver, but so does the person who comes third. If she comes fourth she gets nothing - like everyone else.
Participation medal. Nice
For whom?
It puts her in a difficult situation because who can she compete against?
I don't get this argument. She can compete against other transgender woman, in their own competition. The games provide categories for men and woman. You don't fall into either start your own games. If there is interest it shouldn't be a problem. If you want to invite the best female athletes in the world go for it. But don't be surprised if the ones born female prefer a more level playing field.
I am all for people identifying how they want to, and if all the woman in our office started using the mens I could not care less, no one is in the shitter to look at anyone elses junk or to assault anyone. We are all just browsing on our phones, trying to forget about the drudgery of work.
These athletes are just being arseholes. They know their body is different from other woman, shit that's their main issue in life. To pretend that it suddenly isn't and its a level playing field is laughable. I had a good chat with someone in the transgender community about this.
Her quote.
"You have to be some kind of narcissist to pretend your body is the same as everyone elses, when you've spent your whole life trying to escape it. "
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@mooshld agree with all of that, but there are hardly any transgender people around. They are an anomoly at best. In the US for example they make up just 0.3% of the population - though you wouldn't know it given how much media they get. So any "transgender only" events are not viable.
The harsh reality is they just can't compete in elite sports unless they compete as their gender at birth. This obviously only impacts male -> female transgender, as you're never going to get female -> male transgender competing in mens sports for obvious reasons.
All this bullshit about "inclusivity" is being taken way too far, and sporting bodies need to draw a bloody line in the sand. They've got very solid science backing them up on this, but they're just weak as piss fearing a backlash from the radical lefties.
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@no-quarter said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@mooshld agree with all of that, but there are hardly any transgender people around. They are an anomoly at best...
Guaranteed medal though?
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I noticed not everyone knowing where they can watch the different sports. Maybe this helps?
For online streams, see https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/commonwealth-games
Games Extra is channel 14 on Freeview
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/commonwealth-games/schedule