Gold Coast Comm Games

[Chris B.]

Two laps to go - leading three still together, but a couple of times Hatherly dropped a few metres behind the other two - might be wishful thinking, but a slight sign of weakness. The next climb will tell!

[Chris B.]

Cooper and Gaze with an attack and a mini break...and we go to an ad break!

[Chris B.]

Nope Hatherly is back.

Oliver sliding back towards the chasing bunch.

[Chris B.]

Final lap - Gaze, Cooper, Hatherly - barring an accident/mechanical the medals are going to these three.

[Chris B.]

Cooper breaks away - Hatherly is chasing, Gaze further back.

[Chris B.]

No - fuck it - Gaze had a mechanical!

[Chris B.]

Gaze comes back strongly during the ad break and we're one and two - Hatherly 10 seconds behind!!!

[antipodean]

How has Gaze come back from that gap after 70mins?

[Chris B.]

Gaze wins the spring finish - Gold for him, Silver for Cooper.

[Mokey]

Yes!!!! Good shit boys.

[Chris B.]

@antipodean said in Gold Coast Comm Games:

How has Gaze come back from that gap after 70mins?

No idea - we were on a two minute ad break INCLUDING advertising for whether anyone wanted to be in the Maori fucking electoral roll. Fuck you NZ Government!!!

[Chris B.]

Oliver gets fourth.

[antipodean]

@chris-b I was watching the local stream. Cooper saw off the South African who had clearly tired and then Gaze swamped Hatherly (sp?) and caught Cooper with half a lap spare. He looked fresh as a daisy.

[Chris B.]

@antipodean Our local stream showed the replay of Gaze dismounting at the start-finish and Cooper and Hatherly disappearing into the distance - cut to the ads before he got back on his bike - by the time we came back from the fucking ad break Gaze had caught Cooper.

Waay too good!

[Virgil]

Shame there isnt 20 different lengths they can race and do it backwards, forwards...
Have 150 medals up for grabs, then we would be up there with Oz on the medal table.

[Chris B.]

Cooper does well to be a world class cyclist - he looks like a young Van Morrison!

[Bovidae]

Another winner from the Pacific Island of Tokoroa.

[mariner4life]

@bovidae said in Gold Coast Comm Games:

Another winner from the Pacific Island of Tokoroa.

poach!!

[Higgins]

@virgil said in Gold Coast Comm Games:

Shame there isnt 20 different lengths they can race and do it backwards, forwards...
Have 150 medals up for grabs, then we would be up there with Oz on the medal table.

Not to mention the team and individual pursuit and the freestyle and medley relays so ideally suited to mountain biking. Full contact roller derby style racing would be a real crowd pleaser as well, again teams and individual categories.

[Snowy]

@chris-b said in Gold Coast Comm Games:

Cooper does well to be a world class cyclist - he looks like a young Van Morrison!

Van Morrison couldn't ride a bike?

They just showed the Gaze tech stop to change the puncture (might have just been inflate). Was like watching F1, cost him about 15 to 20 secs apparently so pretty bloody good to come back and win.