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spiking the ball towards the Eiffel Tower with the ball caught in the gap in the metalwork

Not a euphemism?

A wide angle version of this perspective and composition - but maybe the tower may look too small

Alternatively a zoomed in shot compressing the foreground and background

Looks like Oriental Bay with an Eiffel Tower photoshopped in the background

and the blue.

and the sunshine.

Crowd?

yah, probably that too

canefan

Sounds like Hayden Wilde has a mare in the swim and he's in deep merde

Toddy

He had a pretty slow swim. Was out of the water about 1 minute off the lead. Should catch up by the end of the bike leg though. Hopefully still has something in the tank for the run.

canefan

@Toddy said in Olympics Thread:

He had a pretty slow swim. Was out of the water about 1 minute off the lead. Should catch up by the end of the bike leg though. Hopefully still has something in the tank for the run.

His chase group has closed up with the lead group. McCullough is there too. Game on

Chris B.

McCullough sat on the back of the lead group doing no work until Hayden's group got to within 10-15 seconds - then he dropped back and dragged them up the last little bit.

Good work Dylan!

canefan

@Chris-B said in Olympics Thread:

McCullough sat on the back of the lead group doing no work until Hayden's group got to within 10-15 seconds - then he dropped back and dragged them up the last little bit.

Good work Dylan!

Hopefully he can help Wilde on the run. The 32 man lead group appear to be too far away from the rest of the field

Damo

What sort of time do they run 10k in?

canefan

Wilde away smoothly. Someone is 10000m away from a medal. Is Wilde a strong runner? His arch rival Alex Yee is leading out trying to get away early

Damo

Wilde is in about 4th from the looks of it. Pretty close. Yee is flying at the front but a bit early to mean much.

canefan

Second now. And closing in on Yee

Toddy

@Damo 30 minutes?

canefan

This is going to be epic. They are neck and neck now

Damo

This is going to be a great race from here. Two front leaders seem to be a long way ahead.

Toddy

Dude from Norway looked like a middle aged man

canefan

@Damo said in Olympics Thread:

This is going to be a great race from here. Two front leaders seem to be a long way ahead.

Unless he does a Craig Barrett, the worst Wilde can do is silver you would think. Apparently Wilde doesn't usually run down Yee. I was going to say Wilde should try to crack Yee. Just as I type Wilde is trying to push away from Yee

Toddy

Go hard right. Gold or blow out

canefan

@Toddy said in Olympics Thread:

Go hard right. Gold or blow out

Yup. Go hard or go home. You can't see the margin, but it looks like a significant distance and pulling away

canefan

Wilde is putting the hammer down. Yee doesn't seem to have an answer. Wow

1kiwi

5 second gap now between Hayden and Yee

canefan

Looks strong. I can't believe Yee would let him go like that unless he didn't have the gas

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