Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens

[Crucial]

Hobbs runs 6th? Maybe 5th. Not bad for a white girl.

Edit: 6th. 2/100ths behind 4th.

[Bovidae]

@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

Hobbs runs 6th? Maybe 5th. Not bad for a white girl.

Yeah, a good effort for 6th. A pity Zoe couldn't run a PB.

[Crucial]

@Bovidae said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

Hobbs runs 6th? Maybe 5th. Not bad for a white girl.

Yeah, a good effort for 6th. A pity Zoe couldn't run a PB.

She already did one in the quarters didn’t she? Has reduced her time a few times recently so big ask to do so again in the final.

[Bovidae]

I think her PB was in the heats in Eugene. As someone said on the Stuff blog, Hobbs has had a long season just to qualify. I was just hoping she would be pulled along by the faster runners in the final.

[MiketheSnow]

Fantastic squash final between Coll and Makin.

Great watch.

Down to the wire but Coll’s superior all round game saw him home

[Bovidae]

@MiketheSnow Your boy left everything on the court.

[SBW1]

@Bovidae Read an article about how underfunded our swimmers are and how well they have done. How many medals have we won overall in the pool?

[KiwiMurph]

@SBW1

New Zealand ended fourth on the swimming medal table with five golds, two silvers and two bronzes.

[SBW1]

@KiwiMurph Thanks, hopefully this helps with future funding for Swimming NZ,

[Bovidae]

They said in one of the NZ post-race interviews that the Australian swimming programme gets $30M in funding. NZ swimming got ~$1M from HPSNZ. Even taking into account the population difference that is a huge disparity.

[Machpants]

@KiwiMurph said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

@SBW1

New Zealand ended fourth on the swimming medal table with five golds, two silvers and two bronzes.

Swimming needs it’s own comp, far too many medals for swimming. Fowards, backwards, floppping about, with friends…

[KiwiMurph]

@Machpants said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

@KiwiMurph said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

@SBW1

New Zealand ended fourth on the swimming medal table with five golds, two silvers and two bronzes.

Swimming needs it’s own comp, far too many medals for swimming. Fowards, backwards, floppping about, with friends…

It's never going to change.

[MiketheSnow]

@Bovidae said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

@MiketheSnow Your boy left everything on the court.

Yes, super proud of him.

He won a lot of fans last night, and this match will be the making of him.

The variety of shots he played really expanded his game, and he's served notice to the 6 players above him in the world rankings.

[KiwiMurph]

Rob Walker the commentator for track & field is brilliant.

Great knowledge and enthusiasm.

[booboo]

SFs beat England, play Oz.
Lose and play Jamaica.

[canefan]

@booboo said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

SFs beat England, play Oz.
Lose and play Jamaica.

What a choice. Its not our way to tank. But a match against a wounded Australian team will be especially tough

[Bovidae]

England will be the favourites - reigning CG champs.

[canefan]

@Bovidae said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

England will be the favourites - reigning CG champs.

Have there been any head to heads in the last year?

[Bovidae]

@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

@Bovidae said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:

England will be the favourites - reigning CG champs.

Have there been any head to heads in the last year?

They won the series here didn't they?

[canefan]

@Bovidae 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:

England will be the favourites - reigning CG champs.

Have there been any head to heads in the last year?

They won the series here didn't they?

Would be good one to lose then