Homer wrote:Great start by Fiona....
Oops
Great run by Grace though
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Homer wrote:Great start by Fiona....
maprun wrote:Two medals.
Anyway, fingers crossed the Latvians raise the GB flag the right way up this time.
kedge wrote:Anyway, fingers crossed the Latvians raise the GB flag the right way up this time.
You should explain - I laugh every time I think of it.
At least the Portuguese got it right this year.
Snail wrote:Slightly odd that they decided to add 1 second to the accurate time (from the working SI-Air card), rather than subtract 1 second from the backup manual timing for the runner with the failed card.
But a fair result.
PhilJ wrote:The Russian runner would have lost more than 1 second when she swept through the first control that SI air failed on, on the basis it had worked on previous controls:
Sweep over control > check for light/beep - 1 metre+ from control > b@lls > turn back > dib > turn back head for next control. Probably more like 10 seconds lost.
PhilJ wrote:Good "example!" of this was the adventure show, when the womens open race was live and the first runner (all runners were supposed to have SI air activated) swept over the first control, carried on running, had to turn back and dib the control, and then carry on (watch it back in iplayer to see where this happened).
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