The Commonwealth Games – A catch all thread about the sport

We were sat in the stand and Andy Burns the bronze medalist ( pictured above) came up and sat in front of us to chat to some of his supporters. Got a good look at the medal, looked lovely.

Owen Livesey who won Gold the night before also popped up too.

Great night, looks like you had great seats trailofdestruction.

Agree re organisation, Clydesiders were just as cheery as the Gamesmakers from London ( if a wee bit harder to understand if like my 2 mates I dragged up who had never been to Scotland before).

Drove up as time was tight and parked up where I used to live and walked in. Great atmosphere even in the streets.

Great afternoon in the stadium for the athletics today. Wife and daughter off to gymnastics tomorrow afternoon.

Springbok 7s team GOLD!!

That Rebecca Addlington is ace. She really gets it across how great it is for the swimmers to do well.

I was watching the swimming last night and they had a para event medley in which there was one swimmer with two arms and two legs up against amputees, two of which had only one arm each.

Funnily enough the guy with all the limbs won….easily!

Cross Country mountain biking today

Mountain biking on today, womens at 11.30 and the men’s at 2. Wonder where the venue is?

I’m watching the netball (as you do on a quiet Tuesday morning) and the England ladies have what looks like a spine protector or maybe some sort of tracker (or maybe an aerial because they are remote-controlled cyborgs). Anyone know what it is?

Gotta love wrestling:

Please explain that picture, where is that guys head?

Was at the athletics early session yesterday, loved every second. The crowd got behind every competitor. Have to say the organisation was brilliant, everything ran smoothly. Feared the worst as we joined a massive line snaking from Mount Florida train station to Hampden, but it all kept moving forward, even the airport security checks didn’t cause a massive bottleneck.

Afterwards we headed to George square and onto the festival in the Merchant city, have to say hats off to Glasgow, I think they have more than pulled this one off.

Wot no Emily Batty?

EDIT: She IS there!

Is the Mountain Biking on telly? Can’t seem to find it!

EDIT: just found some on BBC iplayer 🙂

Press the red button on BBC 1, then live events, then scroll along to ‘cross country finals’
The course looks great fun, I want a shot.

Batty in 4th, battling for Bronze!

The course looks great fun, I want a shot.

Not wrong there!

Without fail it looks like every rider is using 29″ wheels.

god xc racing makes for dull tv

Good to see Mountain Biking taking lead on the BBC homepage!

anyone seen this?

http://road.cc/content/news/125352-glasgow-bike-shop-humbled%E2%80%9D-response-its-helping-malawi-cyclists

it’s pretty cool I reckon.

Well that was an impressive spurt from the Kiwi, but very disappointing that we had no Brits vying for the lead. Three Anti Pods blew us away!

Bis land cycles on the telly just now. Games has been good for them, deserve it as well.

Bis land cycles on the telly just now. Games has been good for them, deserve it as well.

Great to see them getting the plaudits for it, he seemed a bit taken aback at the fuss. Good job too by the club riders taking the teams out to how them the roads.

Anyone seen a start list for the Road race and TT? Would be interesting to see which big guns are riding. I assume Millar, Dowsett, Thomas, Rowe and Kennaugh are all riding? What about the Australians? Renshaw? Gerrans?

By the way, has anyone noticed that all pool side interviews being conducted by Sharon Davies have been of the back of her head only? I reckon its due to the fact that she has so fcuked up her face, it would put off the viewers!

😯

Put it this way I wouldn’t climb over her to get to you!

Edit.

I have some nice athletics pics uploading

Met Sharon Davies a while back and she is not very natural looking

anyway

I’d like to see Millar win it

I’ve no idea why Wiggo is not doing it (yes I heard the interviews, still don’t understand it) as he would walk away with it, unless he’s been on the vodka tonic for the last month.

Ah the commentary has started online. Good to see they’ve got Boardman behind the mic. Hopefully be an improvement on the XC commentary.

By the way, what’s the story with Wiggins?

before

after

Good to see so many african nations getting involved in the time trial. It’s got to be the way to bring more developing nations into road cycling.

Also, Sharon Davies seems to be slowly morphing into one of the evil apes from Congo.

Looks like it’s Dowsett, Dennis or Gee for the TT with Dowsett edging it at the moment.

edit: Dennis is flying…

What a ride by Gee. Impressive if he can beat Dowsett off the back of the Tour as well.

By the way, what’s the story with Wiggins?

Once upon a time there was a boy called Bradley. Bradley liked riding his bike and was very good at it. He found that he was the best boy at riding round in circles, even when he didn’t practice as much as the other boys!

One day he decided he’d had enough of riding around in circles, so decided to ride up and down big hills instead. He had to practice really hard for a long long time because lots of the other boys were very good at it. After practicing for ages his friends Chris and David helped him to be the best boy at it.

Then he was the most famous and best dressed boy in all of England and even got to meet the Queen!

But Bradley was sad because he never got to see his other friends and have fun any more. Then his friend David told him that he liked Chris the best now, which made Bradley even more sad.

Bradley was so sad he decided to stop riding up and down hills, and go back to riding round in circles again. “That will show David”, he thought, and he knew that going round in circles did not need as much practicing.

the end

So, it’s down to Dennis vs Dowsett, Dennis 4 seconds up at the last split.
edit: Bosh! Have that!

Ooof where did he find that from?! Impressive stuff.

Nice!

Great effort from Geraint after the tour as well. 🙂

Alex Dowsett –
“Nobody wanted that more than I did, after the disappointment of not being picked for the Tour de France and the silver in Delhi in 2010.

“I’ve been angry all this month, ever since I was a kid I have pulled something out of the bag when I have been really angry. It’s pretty special that.”

Geraint Thomas –
“I was bit unsure what to expect in terms of my fitness. I just felt strong. I didn’t felt fresh or zippy as such but felt I could just smash it.

“Before the next time trial I do I’m going to send Alex Dowsett some flowers. Make sure he is happy, and maybe we will have a chat.”

Love it!

Great effort from Geraint after the tour as well.

What??….he’d be in the best shape of his life after those 3 weeks!

He looked done in at the end of the Tour. Can’t remember where he finished in the last TT, but I think Tuft beat him, who he beat today. Recovered well.

Love the quote above though.