One of the NZ Herald sport editors wrote an end of Commonwealth Games 'colonial relic' opinion piece before the games started.
Not every sporting event should have to be Olympic or Football World Cup scale to continue.
And imagine writing off the Commonwealth Games to Zoe Hobbs or Lewis Claireburt tonight...
@bovidae said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
That was some final 50 m from Lewis Clareburt in the 200 m butterfly final yesterday too.
bigger come back than kim kardashian!
sheesh turned on telly to watch Hobbs. handful of people watching in stadium. pretty shitty weather, but still. Fark she can move out of the blocks!
@taniwharugby lucky he's not a quadriplegic!
@virgil said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
Oh nice we have 3 Golds now, look over at Oz's tally...34 Golds and counting...
are we ahead of the least athletic country on earth India yet?
it's a bit of a joke though, as of yesterday afternoon Queensland was first on the medal table.
@mariner4life said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
@virgil said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
Oh nice we have 3 Golds now, look over at Oz's tally...34 Golds and counting...
are we ahead of the least athletic country on earth India yet?
it's a bit of a joke though, as of yesterday afternoon Queensland was first on the medal table.
yes!
up by 1 Gold
Oz now up to 35 Golds (next best is Canada eh with 13 Golds)
@virgil said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
@mariner4life said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
@virgil said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
Oh nice we have 3 Golds now, look over at Oz's tally...34 Golds and counting...
are we ahead of the least athletic country on earth India yet?
it's a bit of a joke though, as of yesterday afternoon Queensland was first on the medal table.
yes!
up by 1 Gold
Oz now up to 35 Golds (next best is Canada eh with 13 Golds)
Remove the ~stat padding~ swimming and it's not quite so dominating.
I've just seen a replay of Zoe's SF. It was absolutely pissing down, worse than the other SFs.
@nepia said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
These are the most Scottish games ever, the tight bastards aren't even paying for them.
Victoria paying for them to be held elsewhere.
its pretty frustrating as Melbourne has lots of these venues...they could have moved what they could to existing venues, trimmed the number of sports like Glasgow have...but theyre jus decided if they couldnt do the region thing they were doing it at all
Just watched Zoe's final run. Strong start and managed to hold the field off in the final 20m. Lovely reaction from her after a historic win.
Meritorious silver for Lauren Bruce too. I remember her nightmare in Birmingham, to medal in Glasgow must have been nice to get the monkey off her back
@sbw1 said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
We are slow starters. Things will improve in the later part of the games.
Don’t blink, it’s going to be over in a few days.
A few sports we have medaled in previously are not there this time.
@act-crusader said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
@sbw1 said in Comm Games Glasgow?:
We are slow starters. Things will improve in the later part of the games.
Don’t blink, it’s going to be over in a few days.
A few sports we have medaled in previously are not there this time.
It's a swim and athletics meet?
I haven't been watching any FTA so it feels like uni games.
