I haven't watched athletics since the Lynford Christie at the 1990 AKL Commonwealth Games 100m when I was on the far side of the track :(Hot bods !
Yes Porritt Stadium on Saturday was full of them.
Highlights:
- Monique Williams cleaning up the 100 and 400m.
- Valeri Vili throwing the shotput within a metre of the edge of the sand next to the 20m mark, and skinny white guys throwing half as far.
- Stuart Farquhar throwing the javelin about 50% further than the next furthest chuck.
- High jumpers clearing over my head. I though I did well to jump to my lips at high school.
- Womens 1500m: Auntie of Nikki Hamblin (19 yo in England squad, but out here training with her new Kiwi cyclist boyfriend and running for North Shore Bays) tells her son and his friends to stop running up and down the far bank and give her support. Told pre race that she is frustrated with the slow times here and being told she cannot go until after 300m. The cheering "Go Nikki!" by the cheersquad on the far bank is the loudest by far - every lap - and at the 200m mark she accelerates around the outside and away to win by over 15 metres. Impressive.
- Mens 100m final with 8 starters: "Set ... Bang-Bang" , "next break will be disqualified", "Set..Bang Bang..Number 4 out" "ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!" (Guy who later blitzed the 200 is gone), "Set..Bang Bang..Number 6 out" "FUUUCCKKKK!!!!!!"
- Mine coming 2nd in the 100m under 12. No prizes for 2nd.
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