Originally Posted by Wilchemy
Was that on the turn back onto Alexander Ave (or whatever the road beside the Yarra is called) at the bottom of the Punt Rd hill? Not much room there at the speed they were coming down.
The crowd was loving that Kenyan dude - great effort by him. When he finished he got massive cheers, and he was the only rider who wasn't a medallist that was interviewed on course at the finish.
Yep...far too narrow a gap to funnel them into with the speed off the hill. Max two abreast, he just got caught out on the outside. Snapped collarbone from the look of it.
Interviewed?? Not on ch 9 he wasn't...
They copped a massive spray on Media Watch last night and with good reason. The jingoism and blatant parochialism was a disgrace.....but what would you expect when they don't really care about the sports, just how many drones are out there watching the ad breaks. To show yet another Aussie swimmer stepping up for a bronze or silver, then cut away to another sport before showing the winner (on the rare occasion it wasn't another Australian) was outrageous.
"Wide" World of Sports my arse.....
Rant over....