Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens
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@mariner4life said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@mariner4life said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
Lol look at the stupid race walkers
Wait, that clock can't be right
Holy fuck!
Still looks farken stupid
Yes it does
How in the fuck does it result in 38 minute 10k?
Wow thats fast. Just doesn't look like a sport that pulls you the chicks.
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An excellent result from the White Ferns. While the final often felt like a bridge too far, they are one of the better teams around, and are definitely better than they showed in the CWC at home. Nice to see Sophie Devine hit the winning runs too. Devine, Bates, and Kerr are very much the engine room of the batting lineup, and got the job done.
As for England, perhaps unsurprising to see the final run come from a dropped catch. Plenty of talent, but they don't respond at all well when put under genuine pressure.
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Quote of the Games
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@MiketheSnow said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
Quote of the Games
'He came from yesterday to win that' - Steve CramI saw that earlier. What a freak. Apparently the collapsing after the race is his move, which is a bit weird
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@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
Coll and King win mixed doubles squash gold. King will have another shot in the women's doubles at 11pm NZT
Emphatic
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@Bovidae said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
Pleasantly surprised to hear that NZ won the bronze medal games over England in the cricket and netball after losing their earlier clashes.
And Aaron Gate with a 4th gold medal. He was only meant to be a support rider in the road race.
Ed Hillary would be most proud 👏
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@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@Bovidae said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
Pleasantly surprised to hear that NZ won the bronze medal games over England in the cricket and netball after losing their earlier clashes.
And Aaron Gate with a 4th gold medal. He was only meant to be a support rider in the road race.
Ed Hillary would be most proud 👏
Guy was obviously on a peak and took advantage of it. I haven't watched yet but I did watch the women's race. What a shit sub standard course for a road race. May as well have gone around the track a few hundred times.
In the women's race despite some massive efforts fro England, NZ and a few others, no one could make a break as Oz had a 6 strong team that rode like team pursuit the whole way and just kept shutting things down. There was nowhere in the course for different abilities to have their moment and shake things up. No uphills, no downhills, no tight corners.
I think Gaze had a course that suited him and an advantage of seeing what happened in the women's race. The others didn't think he was going to still have legs at the end or be a sprint threat so gave him too much leeway. Suckers. -
@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@Bovidae said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
Pleasantly surprised to hear that NZ won the bronze medal games over England in the cricket and netball after losing their earlier clashes.
And Aaron Gate with a 4th gold medal. He was only meant to be a support rider in the road race.
Ed Hillary would be most proud 👏
Guy was obviously on a peak and took advantage of it. I haven't watched yet but I did watch the women's race. What a shit sub standard course for a road race. May as well have gone around the track a few hundred times.
In the women's race despite some massive efforts fro England, NZ and a few others, no one could make a break as Oz had a 6 strong team that rode like team pursuit the whole way and just kept shutting things down. There was nowhere in the course for different abilities to have their moment and shake things up. No uphills, no downhills, no tight corners.
I think Gaze had a course that suited him and an advantage of seeing what happened in the women's race. The others didn't think he was going to still have legs at the end or be a sprint threat so gave him too much leeway. Suckers.I watched the women's race and immediately put a hundred bucks on Cav to win cause it was the most featureless race circuit I've ever seen.. but thanks to red wine I forgot Cav rides for isle of man so every other person in that race was out to stick it to him and with no Ewan no other teams interested in a sprint finish!
Anyway make sure you watch the last 60 km - most dominant performance you'll ever see from a kiwi cyclist. Was kinda luck of the draw he ended up in the break that stuck after all the early attacks - but once there he was the dominant rider who did a shedload of the work, chased and drove any other breaks nearly getting away with a smaller group a few times, and still had enough to stay there at the end when serious world tour riders were getting dropped.
Benefited from some South african teamwork late then got a dream tow to the line before absolutely smoking them in the finish. Gatey is the calmest guy under pressure showed incrediable patience in the end, but have no doubt if he needed to go solo to win he was strong enough to do that too.
Shame age isn't really on his side - deserves to be a world tour rider - just one of those guys that it's never quite worked out for him.. -
Gate’s sprinting superiority won him that race. Brilliant finish and he looked almost stunned that it opened up for him in that final sprint. Some interesting tactics by a couple of the riders including the Welsh and Aussie ones at the front.
@Bovidae that netball bronze match was our best match of the games. Our defensive pressure was very good. Lots of deflections and tough covers
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@mariner4life said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@mariner4life said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
Lol look at the stupid race walkers
Wait, that clock can't be right
Holy fuck!
Still looks farken stupid
Yes it does
How in the fuck does it result in 38 minute 10k?
Because they're cheating.
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@antipodean said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@mariner4life said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@mariner4life said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
Lol look at the stupid race walkers
Wait, that clock can't be right
Holy fuck!
Still looks farken stupid
Yes it does
How in the fuck does it result in 38 minute 10k?
Because they're cheating.
Stupidest sport going. Right up there with butterfly swimming
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@ACT-Crusader said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
Gate’s sprinting superiority won him that race. Brilliant finish and he looked almost stunned that it opened up for him in that final sprint. Some interesting tactics by a couple of the riders including the Welsh and Aussie ones at the front.
@Bovidae that netball bronze match was our best match of the games. Our defensive pressure was very good. Lots of deflections and tough covers
It didn't even look like a sprint in the normal sense. He just had the power to ride a bigger gear at a higher cadence is what it looked like. Just cruised past.
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@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@antipodean said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@mariner4life said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@mariner4life said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
Lol look at the stupid race walkers
Wait, that clock can't be right
Holy fuck!
Still looks farken stupid
Yes it does
How in the fuck does it result in 38 minute 10k?
Because they're cheating.
Stupidest sport going. Right up there with butterfly swimming
Nah there are much much worse
