Gold Coast Comm Games

[Virgil]

@donsteppa said in Gold Coast Comm Games:

After the Commonwealth games I’m looking forward to not having Toni Street or Sam the Weatherman inflicted on me again for a very, very long time.

Between forcing their “media celebrity” drivel on us and incessant poorly timed ad breaks, TVNZ should give themselves massive uppercut.

They are fucking aweful, reminds me why I avoid TVNZ 1 or what ever the fuck it’s called.

[Crazy Horse]

I did not realise Hamish Bond took up cycling. What an athlete.

[Hooroo]

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.

[Bovidae]

Bond averaged about 47 km/h over that course.

[taniwharugby]

@hooroo assuming it's Bond you are talking about, not to mention when he was sitting with Murray in a little boat, they could always see their other competitors...way behind them!

[canefan]

Bond pushed out of 1st

[canefan]

Bond in 3rd. If he gets a bronze it will be a remarkable achievement for a guy who only traded one seat for another not long ago

[Bovidae]

A bloody good effort against some world class TT riders.

Hopefully Villumsen repeats.

[Chris B.]

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....

[Mokey]

Something happened with Bond also - interference by a motorbike or something? I saw a mention of that on the Stuff live blog.

[Mokey]

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.

[Chris B.]

@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."

[mariner4life]

@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!

[barbarian]

@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

[canefan]

@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

[mikedogz]

Laurel Hubbard retired.

A photo I found of her when she was a dude.

[Bovidae]

Villumsen 2nd and Buchanan 5th in the womens time trial.

[Chris B.]

Australian cycling commentators grating like sandpaper - apparently both time trials were over at the 10km mark.

[Virgil]

@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.

[jegga]

@mikedogz said in Gold Coast Comm Games:

Laurel Hubbard retired.

A photo I found of her when she was a dude.

Her father is/was anti gay marriage which must have been the source of some interesting conversations.