{"id":1380,"date":"2010-10-03T19:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T09:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2010-10-03T19:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T09:22:48","slug":"that-was-totally-wicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2010\/10\/03\/that-was-totally-wicked\/","title":{"rendered":"That was totally wicked!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heh. So pleased one of my favourite quotes from The Incredibles<\/em> is so appropriate for today’s experience. Because it’s true – watching the start of the elite men’s road race at Federation Square was totally wicked. Obviously the biggest cheer was reserved for the Australians but there was a pretty big cheer for the Kiwis and the other big names like Cancellara, Cavendish, Frank Schleck (Andy didn’t come) and Hushovd.<\/p>\n

Took along my trusty camera and then spent most of the time wishing I was taller. There was a guy in front of me whose bald head caused reflection in just about every time photo I took. Sigh. And I wasn’t watching my camera display carefully enough so I missed a prefect shot of Cadel Evans because as I lined it up, my battery died. Again, sigh. <\/p>\n

But enough whinging! The experience was fantastic and I do have some photos to share.<\/p>\n

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\nSBS cycling presenter Matt Keegan being interviewed.<\/p>\n

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\nSome of the American team members lounging about at the sign-in area, waiting for a team member to turn up.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Colombian team consisted of two members. There were a few single rider and two-rider teams. <\/p>\n

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\nSome of the Norwegian team, including the eventual winner Thor Hushovd (centre).<\/p>\n

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\nA couple members of the English team including the “bad boy” of cycling, Mark Cavendish (left)<\/p>\n

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\nSign-in board about two thirds full. The Aussies have all signed in. 178 riders started but only 99 actually finished.<\/p>\n

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\nSpartacus!! Four time individual time trial world champion and current gold medal holder, Fabian Cancellara (centre) with two Swiss team mates.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd they’re off! See, I did get some photos of the Australian team. Eventually.<\/p>\n

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\nMore of the Australian team.<\/p>\n

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\nThis photo is a little blurry as I was leaning over the barrier to take photos and realised I had a cyclist heading right for me. Had to pull back pretty quickly but I was still taking photos.<\/p>\n

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\nSo many pretty bikes out on the town today but this one really stood out. Too cute!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heh. So pleased one of my favourite quotes from The Incredibles is so appropriate for today’s experience. Because it’s true – watching the start of the elite men’s road race at Federation Square was totally wicked. Obviously the biggest cheer was reserved for the Australians but there was a pretty big cheer for the Kiwis and the other big names like Cancellara, Cavendish, Frank Schleck …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[85],"tags":[19,290,291],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}