I'd echo what others have said about last night's qualifiers.
There were a couple of glitches with the timers, adding about a minute onto the NZ women's team time and again on one of the men's teams. And Spain being disqualified for bad bike position was baffling - surely the person checking the bike on the jig should have piped up before the heat started? But an amazing venue - 6,000 screaming at the GB team was quite a noise, and the temperature was absolutely fine.
Yes, the crawling queue for the shuttle bus afterwards was a bind, but I had company (admittedly Australians) and it was then a doddle to get on the Jumbly Line back to SE London.
What's this business about twitter? A steady stream of mindless inanities appearing on the big screens between heats and the commentator telling us about the tweets that he'd seen. I suppose it's a step on (technologically if in no other way) from a banner saying "Hi Mum!".
The GB men's team were superb, but having knocked 8 seconds off the previous best, it then made the last five teams look lacklustre when in fact they were stormingly good. Interesting that the women were much closer to WR times than the men. Anyone any idea why this might have been the case? Was there something special about the 3.53 occasion?
I'd echo what others have said about last night's qualifiers.
There were a couple of glitches with the timers, adding about a minute onto the NZ women's team time and again on one of the men's teams. And Spain being disqualified for bad bike position was baffling - surely the person checking the bike on the jig should have piped up before the heat started? But an amazing venue - 6,000 screaming at the GB team was quite a noise, and the temperature was absolutely fine.
Yes, the crawling queue for the shuttle bus afterwards was a bind, but I had company (admittedly Australians) and it was then a doddle to get on the Jumbly Line back to SE London.
What's this business about twitter? A steady stream of mindless inanities appearing on the big screens between heats and the commentator telling us about the tweets that he'd seen. I suppose it's a step on (technologically if in no other way) from a banner saying "Hi Mum!".
The GB men's team were superb, but having knocked 8 seconds off the previous best, it then made the last five teams look lacklustre when in fact they were stormingly good. Interesting that the women were much closer to WR times than the men. Anyone any idea why this might have been the case? Was there something special about the 3.53 occasion?