Maybe if I take some more medication this bike leg with become more interesting..

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The commentary is driving me nuts - "Tri - ath - UH - lon"

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What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about?

They're Lady Gaga fans? How do you know that?

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Chicks are like Voltron, the more you can get, the better it is." -Tucker

Some names in the front group

Brownlee, Brownelee Jr, Gomez, Vidal, Hauss, Kemper, Rieder, Brukhakov, Vasiliev, Silva, Noble, Fabian, Tayama, Hayes, Frodeno, Gemmell, Petzold,


Hayes still out front- 2 laps to go

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We have Welchy commentating down here,but they keep crossing ove to the 200m qualifiers..They showed all the the womens tri and that is just not fair!!!!.....Bloody sexist!!

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I think that the race is Alistairs to lose, but with relatively tired legs and a 15s penalty coming, I think Johnny is in trouble, might get pushed off the stand altogether. Bruhankov as it is runs 15-20s behind him on equal legs, Sven 5-10s.

I am so tired of hearing that Simon is out of the race. YES we known that he could not handle a speedbump and crashed. You can say all you want about his training because at the end it was a simple speedbump that he did not prepare for.

Awesome! Thanks.

I'd say last lap. The way a lot of races turn out, a 15" penalty at the end won't even effect his finish. He should start as he always does and hope he gets away like he always does (w/ Ali).

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That really was a heart breaking span of 18 hours for Canada with the women's loss and Simon's crash. I did not expect Simon to medal (never counted him out....), but really sad to see a champion like that not go out in style.

Kyle Jones now in chase pack 70 seconds down...also Richard Murray from South Africa in that group. Stuart Hayes is pulling the main Brownlee group....he's got a stubby aero helmet on.

That 15 second penalty for Johnny Brownlee is going to hurt him!

Unfair, or just realistic?

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I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
- Muhammad Ali

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Clearly you missed the sexism thread the other day............

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alistair breaks?!

Alistair Brownless just took off from the front....solo.

As for SQW's mistake, it was heartbreaking as a Canadian, but if anyone posted a video of an age grouper on ST doing that, (if it was Kenny or I), we'd get crucified....Really is too bad....even the top guys make mistakes!

Macca was dead right a month or so ago when he said the whole ITU field is afraid of the Brownlees and just follows along with what they do in the races......I'd much prefer to go down in flames trying to destroy the Poms than to ride like limp flowers waiting for divine intervention..

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Wasting energy like an idiot I would say. Just stay at the front and do not waste energy but I want his to finish second or third or off the podium so keep going off the front.

....I love your colour commentary...you and Macca say it as it is! Well said!

Chase pack 70 seconds back. Hunter from teh US has been sitting quietly in the lead group doing nothing.

With Whitfield, out, I'd love to see Gomez medal. He and Hunter deserve one!

At least Gomez is playing it smart. In the lead pack sitting back a bit conserving energy.

See, this is what happens when we stop using pink font & emoticons

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I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
- Muhammad Ali

Great. Just give my whole race strategy away to all my AG competitors, why don't you? And what exactly is wrong with limp flowers? They still smell pretty!

Later!

Brian

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Fair enough, but on a course like this, do you really think it can stick? The Brownlees push the pace enough already, that to think you can actually go off the front of that and make it stick, to me is complete idiocy. But I guess atleast you can say you "tried", so I guess it wouldnt really matter when you finish in 17th either way really.

But I guess it would make viewing of races more interesting and we wouldnt always have ST hating on it so much.

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Later!

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I was watching NBC Sports at home and decided to stream online with no commentary for exactly that reason... That and the "she didn't even put her shoes on in transition that will cost her precious seconds on the bike" gem from the women's race...

I'm sure we'll hear about the De-cath-UH-lon later this week...

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The thing is if one goes then the rest may follow,when that happens accident happen and you just never know..Right now it is a bit of a procession and it is playing into the Poms hands..I do agree though that Gomez might figure more if the brothers do too much work.

I would push the pace and try to force a mistake on this twisty course.

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Bike cam on the Brazil bike...too bad he's not in the lead pack.