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Robdog wrote:

Chops wrote:lawn bowls.

Try it - you'll find watching it fascinating afterwards

I've played bare foot bowls before. Love it.

But just cant sit and watch it.

I've given up trying to work out when the cycling is on!

There's been some great games of netball happening too.

Comedian wrote:I've given up trying to work out when the cycling is on!

I think the simplest answer is any given sport is on where there's an Australian featured, but priority goes to events where they're a shoe-in (Men's points and scratch races for example).
Australian media are completely without bias like that

Chops wrote:

Robdog wrote:

Chops wrote:lawn bowls.

Try it - you'll find watching it fascinating afterwards

I've played bare foot bowls before. Love it.

But just cant sit and watch it.

Hah - bare foot bowls and Lawn Bowls are worlds apart. In the former you have a bunch of drunk people slinging bowls as fast as they can at anything they can see... Oh wait, I know some people who play like that for real
But seriously, the difference is like going to pitch and putt and slashing away at the ball vs. heading off to play the US Masters

Cam Meyer, what a gun!

Anyone notice how empty the spectator areas are, both in cycling and the main stadium at the Commonwealth Games?

Comedian wrote:I've given up trying to work out when the cycling is on!

for some reason they just want to show endless swimming events. and they wonder why the ratings are down.

the track WAS on from 5pm till about 7-8 all week

cycling is going mad at the moment.

2 guys, A kiwi and a North Ireland. out the front from the gun, 3 minute gap on peleton, peleton not able to reel them in,

43 degress temp
43 km/h avg speed – tha peloton cannot catch'em everyone is popping out and quiting.

who are these monsters hurting everyone??? they are beasts...

bloody channel 7 get back to road race!!!

Turning into a cracker.

your not wrong, im missing star craft to watch it

Say What! is channel 7 doing? im so p1ssed rightnow

Goddamn it! just as it gets interesting the cross to the diving!

Anywhere to watch online - tho it's probably blown up by now!

and they have 4 channels all with the same events on at the same time!

Tremendous team riding!

congrats al davis and cj sutton!

no thanks to Channel 10, whose program director appears to have an insatiable fetish for anyone in swimwear. every time they crossed to the cycling, they just went straight to ads, then back to diving. at least we saw the last couple of km.

******* television, i cant believe what they did


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jules21 wrote:congrats al davis and cj sutton!

no thanks to Channel 10, whose program director appears to have an insatiable fetish for anyone in swimwear. every time they crossed to the cycling, they just went straight to ads, then back to diving. at least we saw the last couple of km.

Yep, finally got to see something other than swimming.

Magic effort from Davis getting across from the break and top marks to Sutton for his efforts. !!!!

doggatas wrote:Say What! is channel 7 doing? im so p1ssed rightnow

i know how you feel!

ch 7's coverage of bathurst was delayed because of so many ad breaks. foxtel had the race finishing at 5pm and finished recording so i missed the last 10 laps

onehd advertised the 9pm slot as showing the final stages of the men's road race but it had finished by then so i missed that too

a top effort from allan davis,and supported excellent by team member "sutton"....congrats to both!

How good is Davis? Crossed the gap and Cav couldn't stay with him to cross, then comes outa nd wins the sprint not too many kms further down!

Damn good work by Sutton to help Davis out after he made it across.

A shame that N. Ireland rider didn't win. The effort he put in, he deserved it. Gutsy!

Has anyone been watching the Track World Champs in the Netherlands at the moment??
Michael Freiberg won the most gruelling event the Omnium and is an absolute freak!! In the last kilometre time trial he needed a top 9 finish and results to go his way and he got there in 6th and a 4 point win overall.
I came across his website to see what he is about and it is fantastic
http://www.michaelfreiberg.com/, i also came across a video of the time trial, http://www.michaelfreiberg.com/2011/03/ ... sentation/