I noticed one who took ages in T1, put their bike shoes on and waddled to the mount line and wobbled off. Good effort, but Ive seen better transitions from weekend warriors
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Me and Mrs FB were the TOs at the Island Games event in Jersey in 2015. Good fun if hard work as the triathlon organiser had setup transition incorrectly so we had to break it all down and start again!
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Heptathlon, 800m heatsā¦ 
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I did notice that the athletes lining up without wetsuits were from countries with warm water and wondered how they would get on in a ācoldā English lake.
Itās nice to see the smaller nations taking part in the tri, but there must be safety issues of having slower cyclists being lapped in a draft-legal race.
it wasnāt a problem in reality and the leading riders were well aware that there may be slower riders ahead of them. There was no lapping out that would happen in most elite races as the games are about participation so every athlete gets to finish (unless they DNF for a reason).
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When I was at uni I was coached from time to time by an ex-blue whoād gone to the Cayman Islands in the 50s/60s and set up a law firm out there. His firm had been instrumental in the Caymans becoming a tax haven and he split his time between his houses in Cambridge, Alderney and the Caymans.
He crated the Cayman Island Rowing Association, despite them having no active rowers, just so that he got VIP treatment when he went to watch the world championships 
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I canāt transition to save my life. Iām one of the awkward ones for sure lol 
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Menās MTB on at the moment, no Pidcock 
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Itās a NZ smackdown
There are 8 on the womenās startlist. At what point is the race unviable 
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Rear mech disaster!
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I was thinking about that for the marathon, closing a lot of roads for fields of 14 and 18 (iirc).
There were only 9 starters in the menās 10000m FFS
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and only 8 finishers!
Good to see the English mechanic helping the Scottish rider with his mech. I guess they all work for BC 
Hadnāt realised they were at Cannock Chase, i ran a trail marathon there. Came 5th overall 
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Just watched the menās 400m heats.
A Zambian guy was well in the lead but still absolutely buried himself right to the line, he then lay on the floor exhausted and appeared to be blessing himself and thanking god.
I do hope he didnāt think it was the final, even the commentators said someone should go and tell him itās the heats.
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Just watched. Looked happy then fell over and couldnāt get up again for quite a while hope heās got enough in the tank for his next heat
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The mountain biking looks exhaustingā¦ how many laps? High cadence, technical, up hill? Grief ā¦ theyāve been racing over an hour now 
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I saw the last lap or so of the menās, itās not the most technical course but I guess that was the best location locally (accepting they went to London for the Velodrome)
Iām not sure Iād want to ride through the woods round Cannock, could come across Stan Collymore up to his old tricks.
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What was he up to - spot of dogging
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