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News from JWOC team

Show Profile  mick finn Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:05 AM  
Hope not
Yep awesome results there, does anyone feel like running a super fast middle distance race right now ? ie pumped and ready to race?

Show Profile  Michael Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:07 AM  
A bit closer to OZ - they got 4 women in. (We coulda!) The C'wealth leader by a mile is GBR - 3 women and FOUR men (assuming that both 20th equals go thru.)

Show Profile  Chris Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:08 AM  
not really, much easier to have a perfect run from the office chair... wet & cold here in HB

Tom 19th (Q), Jack 25th, Andrew 31st, Simon & Sam 34th, Rikki 29th, Tineke 2nd Q, Lizzie 3rd Q, Kate M 17th Q, Nicola 22nd, Kate R 23rd and Greta mp.

Show Profile  Chris Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:09 AM  
Both 20th = go through Michael according to commentators

Show Profile  Michael Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:12 AM  
You mean there's actually RAIN in Hawkes Bay?

Remember that APOC day at the Slump? Water at the start came from a beer tanker. Not as good as it sounds...

Show Profile  Chris Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:13 AM  
Anything over 2ml per day counts as rain here

Show Profile  Michael Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:14 AM  
2 milli-litres spread over all of Hawkes Bay, yes I see you have a different perspective

Show Profile  Chris Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:17 AM  
time to go and rack some wine....

Show Profile  Michael Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:18 AM  
Commentary says Haines is a second behind (must be slight diffs in the commentators' timing system) so misses out on 20th. GBR therefore 3 men and 3 women, still impressive.

Show Profile  Michael Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:22 AM  
Yes back to work. Specially you Nic since I'm paying you. Do you by any chance have a trailer wine tanker that you'll be using for refreshments at the Labour Weekend Chris?

Show Profile  Chris Posted: 11 July 2007, 7:36 AM  
We were planning on a supertanker for competitors not from HB

Show Profile  Michael Posted: 11 July 2007, 8:02 AM  
Uhuh. Hey why don't you spray it on the vines, that would make bigger crops, then you could spray more on the vines, and...

But a message for the team management - want more on the blog - how are people feeling - stories of highs and lows - can be cathartic for those involved - what's the terrain like - did it cost an arm and a leg for supporters to get into the Western Plains Zoo - etc etc

Show Profile  addison Posted: 11 July 2007, 11:33 AM  
For more photos check out the link (on page 6). Hope to have a couple more up in the next 24 hours.

News posted as well.

Show Profile  onemanfanclub Posted: 11 July 2007, 1:15 PM  
What's the Maptalk record for the number of posts on one thread in a day? I hope the team are checking in - thanks guys for the excitement today, and I'm looking forward to two more edge-of-the-seat days. Good skills, good speed, good luck!

Show Profile  onemanfanclub Posted: 11 July 2007, 3:31 PM  
For the stats junkies: 23 countries represented in the A final (22 with men, 20 with women). NOBODY took 12 final places, OR got 6 men OR 6 women through (maybe some of the smaller teams got 100%, but I doubt it). Swiss, Sweden & Norway made 5 & 5, Czech (M), Finland (W) and Russia (W) had 5 in one sex but not the other (Fin and Rus getting just 3 and 1 man in respectively). NZ's 3 & 1 compares pretty damn well as not that far behind these "power" countries, as well as being similar the "next tier" European countries (Germany, Hungary, Lithuania etc)

It's been my impression so far that having JWOC on this side of the world hasn't had nearly as huge an impact on the depth of competition as some might have predicted. As well as the above stats, consider the small time differences leading to big placing differences over the races so far, and look at how much some individuals - including some of the faves - have moved up & down the results over the 3 events.


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