Results: Evie Richards & Sam Gaze Win at 2022 Commonwealth Games

Aug 3, 2022
by Sarah Moore  
Evie Richards was on one today never letting off the gas.

The results are in from the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. The mountain bike event was held at Cannock Chase Forest.

Check out the results below.


Results:

Elite Women

1st. Evie RICHARDS (ENG) 1:34:59
2nd. Zoe CUTHBERT (AUS) 1:35:46 +0:47
3rd. Candice LILL (RSA) 1:36:12 +1:13
4th. Isla SHORT (SCO) 1:37:07 +2:08
5th. Kimberley le COURT de BILLOT (MRI) 1:43:57 +8:58

Elite Men

1st. Samuel GAZE (NZL) 1:34:19
2nd. Ben OLIVER 1:34:50 (NZL) +0:31
3rd. Alexander MILLER (NAM) 1:36:20 +2:01
4th. Cameron ORR (NIR) 1:36:29 +2:10
5th. Joseph BLACKMORE (ENG) 1:36:29 +2:10


Full results:

Women:
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107 Comments
  • 19 0
 Evie's back! I guess it must be feeling better now.
  • 18 127
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 8:39) (Below Threshold)
 Relatively weak field though. Those vaccines take a while to get over.
  • 7 7
 @jclnv: Zero vax effect on anyone I know. I'm a thrillseeker - I even got ahold of some Paxlovid when I finally caught a case - delicious stuff.
  • 13 16
 @jclnv: really? You're still terrified and spouting conspiracies? Get outside and talk to real health professionals. You're rant is getting old
  • 20 68
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 9:49) (Below Threshold)
 @Saucycheese: Negative immune response 60 day post vaccination? S1 proven to be cellularly cytotoxic to organs (especially the heart)? Get out and read the studies darling, Your regurgitation of the government/pharmaceutical narrative is so 2020.
  • 17 4
 @jclnv: What are the specific studies you're referring to? Please provide links to peer reviewed papers only - FYI I don't consider Qanon a reputable science journal
Which elements in the vaccine are supposedly causing long term damage?
Obviously you're an mRNA expert and can easily answer these simple questions
  • 7 41
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 10:51) (Below Threshold)
 @tigerfish50: Oh come on, you're still on page one if you're having to ask what element of the vaccine is causing harm. It's the resultant immune response from the spike protein, via the virus AND the vaccine. The difference is the virus doesn't distribute mRNA throughout your internal organs that programs your cells to produce the spike protein for up to 6 months (so far) like the lipid nano particle vaccines do.

academic.oup.com/cid/article/74/4/715/6279075?login=false

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.05.21252960v1.full

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzEigubrO5A
  • 8 2
 @jclnv: Find a new cause my dude. It's too late for those of us that made our choices so why bother trying to be Authority?. There is a non-mRMA vax that came out the other day. Maybe time to hop on that Infowarwagon. Meanwhile, I'm just trying not to step in any Funkypox.
  • 11 22
flag humoroususername (Aug 3, 2022 at 12:14) (Below Threshold)
 @suspended-flesh: I know more people that have had serious and li gering effects from the vaccine than I do from Covid. I don't know a single young person that was sick for months with Covid but I do know people who had severe and instantaneous reactions to their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The latest friend who has spoken up told me he still isn't right 6 months later. A lot of people were terrified of saying anything against the vaccines because of the pretty vile reactions they got from people for saying anything against our Biopharma overlords products.
  • 17 1
 @jclnv: have you read your first reference? It is a study of the vaccine mechanism with a sample size of 13. It includes a sentence saying that the mRNA vaccines are very effective. I haven't read your second reference yet but there is a typo with your 3rd as it is just a link to a YouTube clip.
  • 2 30
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 12:40) (Below Threshold)
 @suspended-flesh: Funny enough it just so happens that every single country where monkeypox is allegedly circulating is also a country that has distributed the mRNA Covid-19 injection to its population; excluding some countries in Africa where the disease has been endemic for the past 50 or so years.

LOL!
  • 13 0
 @jclnv: ok, I've looked at your 2nd reference now. It is a study of COVID 19 patients and is nothing to do with the vaccine.
  • 1 24
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 13:36) (Below Threshold)
 @kevinturner12: There is no difference between virus and vaccine spike protein. They both lead to an immune response that attacks the infected cells. The difference is the distribution of the vaccine ingredients via the lipid nano particle delivery mechanism. It’s too efficient (it was developed to cross the blood brain barrier to treat Parkinsons) and ends up with far wider distribution than typical viral distribution. This is why myocarditis increased post vaccination (+300% for under 20 males in the UK compared to viral events).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ8t0qQ5R4I&t=34s
  • 19 1
 @jclnv: you absolutely can't extrapolate data from COVID infection and apply it to the vaccine and then add assumptions on top from youtube. That would be completely unscientific. I hear complaints that the vaccine wasn't properly tested but you are happy to reference a study of 13 people that doesn't even support what you are saying.
  • 8 0
 @jclnv: ok, your posts are starting to look like spoofs now. Not funny enough to lol though.
  • 2 26
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 14:06) (Below Threshold)
 @kevinturner12: Isn't that the beauty of the "vaccines"? You can't separate the adverse reactions from the virus when you introduce a drug in the middle of an outbreak. It's very odd where all these excess deaths suddenly came from eh?

I wonder what one of the worlds leading researchers in the field has to say? www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_nKoybyMGg
  • 10 0
 @jclnv: That UK data says 12 per million under 18 reported myocarditis/pericarditis from pfizer 2nd dose. Even if your 300% number is true (idk where that comes from), we're talking about an absolute risk increase of 0.0009% for an individual. Not seeing the big deal.

Your 1st link... one of its authors (David Walt) has explicitly stated that the study does NOT show that the vaccine causes 'toxic' levels of spike proteins, and that those who claim it does have completely misinterpreted the paper (link below). He goes on to add “The most important message is over 400 million doses of the mRNA vaccine have been administered with negligible serious consequences.  It is incredibly safe.”

Are you seriously trying to draw a causal link between covid vaccines and monkeypox now?

www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-safe/fact-check-no-evidence-spike-proteins-from-covid-19-vaccines-are-toxic-idUSL2N2NX1J6

UK data - www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-myocarditis-and-pericarditis-information-for-healthcare-professionals/information-for-healthcare-professionals-on-myocarditis-and-pericarditis-following-covid-19-vaccination
  • 5 0
 @kevinturner12: the first study he linked aimed "to see if an ultrasensitive detection technology, a single-molecule array, could detect circulating antigen produced by the mRNA vaccine to demonstrate the vaccine is working as designed." (quoting one of the authors from this article www.factcheck.org/2021/07/scicheck-covid-19-vaccine-generated-spike-protein-is-safe-contrary-to-viral-claims).

So yeah, it doesn't really have anything to do with poisoning people with spike proteins or whatever.
  • 8 1
 @bkm303: Thanks for your research which shows jclnv is a know-nothing Qanon troll who should properly be ignored from now on. He's provided more than enough distraction from Evie and Sam's glorious deeds
  • 2 0
 @jclnv: if the vaccine trials had included phrases like not peer reviewed, big caveat, small sample size, not proof, not statistically significant would you take them as proof? What she says is interesting but it's a long way from supporting your opinion. Has she ever advised against taking the vaccine? She didn't seem to deny they were vaccines as you appear to.
  • 4 0
 @tigerfish50: good point, let's celebrate today's performances instead of banging our heads against this brick wall.
  • 3 15
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 16:05) (Below Threshold)
 @kevinturner12: She advises younger people to not take the 'vaccines'. Yes, a vaccine immunizes against a virus, the injections do not. They do not meet the definition.

Seems a rather risky cost/benefit analysis to me? www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/29/covid-poses-higher-risk-of-myocarditis-than-vaccine-in-male-teens-us-study

Especially when the 'vaccines' have never been shown to be effective - www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/covid-19-vaccine-trials-cannot-tell-us-if-they-will-save-lives

Not that I'm fussed. I wasn't dumb enough to take the risk as I knew there was a 99.9996% survival rate (Delta) in my demographic. BTW I honestly don't know what Qanon is, but I suspect it's a less corrupt entity than the CDC/WHO.
  • 8 1
 @kevinturner12 and @bkm303 Thank you for the time you spent to comment and share
  • 2 12
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 17:04) (Below Threshold)
 @like2pedal: LOL!
  • 3 5
 @jclnv: people act like vaccine injuries do not exist and have never existed.
  • 3 9
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 19:46) (Below Threshold)
 @MuddyFoxCourierComp: People got Pfizer tattoos… If you had asked them a year before what they thought of pharmaceutical corporations (some of whom, like Pfizer, have paid the some of the largest criminal law suits in US history) I bet they would have largely been quite negative. There is a brilliant video on YT that explains the phenomenon of ‘mass formations’ that is clear to see even now amongst the Covid cultists.
  • 3 9
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 20:33) (Below Threshold)
 More random coincidence here - www.lifesitenews.com/news/fifth-toronto-area-doctor-dies-two-weeks-after-the-rollout-of-the-fourth-covid-vaccine

Get your boosters people. Safe and effective.
  • 4 2
 @jclnv: I guess you should become your own doctor and not clog up hospitals when you're sick if you don't believe in modern medicine.
  • 3 2
 @humoroususername: but anti Vax stents saying terrible things back to people? You all aren't saints. There's a reason you pissed off the general public
  • 1 10
flag jclnv (Aug 3, 2022 at 22:15) (Below Threshold)
 @Saucycheese: Actually well over 90% of people hospitalized are double vaccinated.
  • 3 1
 @Saucycheese: I wouldn't waste your time, that poster has the thinking and research skills of grade 3 or younger.
  • 4 1
 @jclnv: the majority of people who clogged up our hospitals and caused health professionals to have mental breakdowns are because the read a joe Rogan or alex jones post and believed it. Wanna talk about being brainwashed? Anti vaxxers are the poster child
  • 1 0
 @Saucycheese: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9012513 This is the one the globalists don't want you to read
  • 1 6
flag jclnv (Aug 4, 2022 at 0:06) (Below Threshold)
 @Saucycheese: Nope. Regardless of whether they took the junk vaccines or not, they were almost all elderly or obease. In fact the average age of a a C19 death in the UK was two years older than the average life expectancy.
  • 1 8
flag jclnv (Aug 4, 2022 at 0:21) (Below Threshold)
 @NorthShore111:. I’ve read so much on the subject over these last couple years that I can’t honestly recall the origin of the studies. Still, the overwhelming sentiment has been that the entire C19 response, from the virus origin, lockdowns, to ‘vaccines’, to classification of deaths, to mandates has been laughably one sided. Give it another 6 months and you’ll probably regret taking the clot shot.
  • 2 0
 @vegankidd: Stephanie Seneff, the main author of this is a computer scientist. She has no standing in medical sciences. The articles she has published over the years have been widely derided by actual experts in the field.
  • 4 0
 @jclnv:
Should be. Got my fourth today...

I'm more concerned for my safety at the crux of a 2 foot drop than I am about being vaccinated...
  • 2 3
 @kevinturner12: Of course it has. Even though the co authors are qualified. Anything counter to the narrative has been vehemently shutdown by the Pharma establishment. That was obvious early on when you had the Lancet publishing a joke hit piece against the lab leak hypothesis, with one of the authors being directly involved with gain of function research in Wuhan. It’s laughable and the same thing has happened numerous times, like with Ivermectin or any other off label treatment. All proponents of treatment, you know, doctors trying to prevent people from worsening symptoms, were ruthlessly derided and threatened with their licence to practice being withdrawn. Or when it took a freedom of information request for Pfizer to release its trial data that showed a significant amount of deaths in the ‘vaccinated’ arm of the trial. At this stage you’d have to be woefully ignorant or completely moronic to continue buy into the narrative. Just think, Pfizer alone was making a billion a month and pharma has some of the most connected, powerful, lobbyists in corporate North America. Seriously, my 8 year old could see through this garbage.
  • 2 5
 @silentbutdeadly: You should be even less scared of an endemic virus with mild symptoms which negates the requirement of the latter.
  • 1 0
 @silentbutdeadly: Indeed! Not sure what that poster is on about.
  • 2 0
 @jclnv: her work has been derided for more than a decade. She was spouting nonsense well before COVID.
  • 2 0
 @jclnv: I hope you let your 8 year old do their own research.
  • 2 1
 @suspended-flesh: Of course but I think she’s likely to be a critical thinker, not one of the drones who jumps when the establishment says so.
  • 1 0
 @jclnv:
I'm not scared of it at all. I'm more concerned about transmitting it to those in my family and community whose immune systems are unlikely to be as capable as mine. So I might as well do all I can with what's available.

To the best of my knowledge, I've not yet had CV19 despite everyone in my house having had it at least once.
  • 2 2
 @silentbutdeadly: Thats a fair position to take. Unfortunately though, unless you’re going to get vaccinated every three months max, (and put your immune system on even more of an antibody roller coaster ride) the ‘vaccines’ are going to give you a negative immune response relative to prior infection.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=zyYq93YtScE
  • 2 3
 @jclnv: I would love to know why people are down owing you for stating that the mrna vaccines have negative immune protection after 3 months. There are quite a few studies which show that is the case now.

Please explain yourselves downvoters. I'm genuinely interested as to why you would refuse to acknowledge any weaknesses in the vaccine. It's not the miracle you were told it was, it's okay to doubt it....

I remember reading about waning immunity early and getting such push back from people who denied it was happening. Then it became undeniable and acknowledged through the rollout of a third dose. Then that was supposed to be final. Evidence of waning in that started to emerge....surely people will start to question the efficacy and research that went into these vaccines? Nope, just more push back and denials until it became impossible to ignore. Now its a 4th dose and they would have you believe it was always supposed to be like this....

So yeah, I fully expect the negative efficacy to be accepted in the coming months but not before the know it alls who have been wrong all the way abuse everyone who dares to think differently.
  • 1 3
 @humoroususername: I genuinely doubt they realise how indoctrinated they are. Mass Formation is a fascinating phenomenon.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=CmloBdLnX3A

The amazing thing is with enough propaganda and fear, almost any subject is applicable. Climate change, BLM, Trans rights etc, all display the signs of societal mass formation.
  • 2 1
 @jclnv: of course you think climate change and BLM is a false narrative. Is Alex Jones on your podcast list?
  • 1 0
 @jclnv: well I'm clearly f*cked then...though my experience over the last couple of years suggests otherwise. Mate, you do you...but don't pretend you are correct, right or even true. I know I'm none of those things and I don't pretend otherwise...and I sure as hell wouldn't believe anything that one sees on YouTube.
  • 1 3
 @Saucycheese: I knew someone would race in to prove my point LOL! How dare a person go against the institutionalized consensus eh? Conspiracist! Denier! Blah Blah... How do you think an entire nation went along with rounding up a subset of society and gassing them? Exactly the same way you convince that it’s okay to put masks on children at statistically zero risk from a virus, or ban people from travelling to see love ones etc if they didn’t take a government mandated drug.

BTW I should have added the Co2 (especially anthropogenic) being the main driver of global average temperature, not simply climate change.The latter is obviously occurring and always has.
  • 1 1
 @silentbutdeadly: What sources do you use to inform your decisions then? If you heard someone respected in the relevant field, or a doctor discussing studies on a streaming channel as I did above, would you think that was somehow less legitimate than a clueless or corrupt government health official on one of the below MSM networks?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=DC1h6l-eXJw
  • 3 0
 @jclnv: of course you believe masking is the same as the Holocaust. Holy @#$& balls your delusional
  • 3 0
 @jclnv: YouTube link? Really? Stfu already
  • 1 3
 @Saucycheese: Let me guess, you know nothing about the massive increase in children with anxiety and addiction do you? Sacrificing child development to keep grandma alive one more year eh? Sorry, who’s delusional?
  • 1 2
 @Saucycheese: What offended you about the link? Your gullibility that you thought you were taking a ‘vaccine’ (actually it was just a junk injection) made by a company that sponsored the news networks where you got your information. I must admit, I would be pretty pissed at my gullibility.
  • 2 0
 @jclnv: Now I just feel sorry for people like you who've gone down a rabbit hole that has no place in reality. Everything is a conspiracy to you, isn't it? Please don't bash modern medicine and then show up in a hospital expecting help. You don't get to have both sides of the cake.

Also, nothing you've brought up here is actually unique. You haven't said anything other delusional conspiracists haven't already regurgitated so maybe take some time away from the internet and collect your own thoughts? Maybe be original for once? Or just don't stick around this website because you clearly aren't here to play nice
  • 1 3
 @Saucycheese: Ha! All I ever hear is “conspiracy!” Well as far as I can tell the conspiracy types are 5-0 on all the facts surrounding the vaccines. Your argument that all medications are the same is infantile. Was thalidomide modern medicine? What about Paxlovid? Zero efficacy and an almost guaranteed rebound case. Brought to you by the same people who developed the junk vaccines. It’s bizarre that you hold them in such high regard. Mass formation again…
  • 1 1
 @Saucycheese: a total nutter!
  • 1 3
 @NorthShore111: Says the guy who's had mRNA injections that transcribes a spike protein in your heart etc for upto 6 months for a virus with a 99.9996 mortality rate.
  • 1 0
 @jclnv:
State and federal chief health officers, my own doctor etc etc.

If I had heard anything on a profit oriented streaming channel or even a commercial TV channel then it immediately raises eyebrows because it always about number of eyes or clicks first with actual information a distant third....and truth is not guaranteed.
  • 2 1
 @jclnv: I don't think you said what you think you said Razz
  • 1 1
 @silentbutdeadly: Oh come on, you live in the only country that gives Canada a run for it's money re obvious C19 government/pharma corruption. You had Gladys Berejiklian resign over bribes to push the 'vaccines' and state health officials who still tow the line when it's obvious what is going on to any rational person.

rumble.com/v10uifl-queensland-health-minister-cant-explain-sudden-40-heart-attacks-chest-pains.html

The you had the laughable political theater around Djokovic. The silencing of doctors who raised concerns to the response to C19. At least you had a good bunch of protestors against the obvious corruption.
  • 1 1
 @NorthShore111: The gramma was crap but you get the idea. These so-called conspiracy nuts aren't the ones who took a harmful drug because corrupt health officials and pharma corps told them to. I beg to differ who the actual nutters are..
  • 2 0
 @jclnv:
Hahaha...Gladys demise had absolutely nothing to do with C19 etc. She got taken down by her relationship with another MP who engaged in corrupt conduct in business developments in his own rural seat. And the corrupt conduct all happened well before C19 was a thing.

Your obvious ignorance here alone suggests you clearly have no actual idea what is going on. Rather you just seek sources and slander that suits your world view...

Granted though...the Djokovic thing was theatre. Everyone involved was a shameful twat.
  • 1 0
 @silentbutdeadly: This one hell of a slanderous statement to make wasn’t it? rumble.com/vmk1oc--aussie-clive-palmer-outs-gladys.html
  • 2 0
 @jclnv:
f*ck no. Clive Palmer is a self serving dipshit billionaire with his own agenda as part of his one-man United Australia Party and about as influential as a fart in a lift. ICAC didn't need him to ruin Gladys...she did that by hanging out with Daryl Maguire and not saying anything about it.
You should really avoid using those sort of websites for news and views. They are really only interested in claiming that you saw their ads...
  • 1 1
 @silentbutdeadly: Fair enough. I'll bow to your local knowledge. I don't know how that guy gets away with making those statements though. The pharma corps would usually at least threaten legal action.
  • 2 0
 @jclnv:
Freedom of speech is a thing down here and he's free to say whatever dumb shit he likes as long as he's not intentionally slandering an individual. Clive is also quite happy to spend his money on lawyering up for some pretty wild legal adventures when he doesn't get his own way. Most of what he does say though is utter rubbish.
  • 1 4
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv8CN7JF_rc
  • 1 0
 @jclnv: ...and your point is?
  • 2 0
 @jclnv: either take a break from the internet or find a different website to post your paranoid opinion
  • 1 1
 @Saucycheese: I was just thought you would find the thoughts of a renowned critical thinker rather interesting. However, you seem to be intent on keeping your head in the sand regardless of the argument.
  • 17 0
 Well done Alex Miller for Namibia!!
  • 2 0
 Alex laid down an absolute heater to pass Joe and Cam in the arena and make it stick for the final lap!
  • 2 0
 He got a great cheer in the stadium for his efforts too... Well deserved!
  • 1 0
 Yep, that was awesome to watch, best part of the race imo. (when he attacked the other two)
  • 16 0
 NZ 1 & 2 in the men's race. If Cooper didn't have covid this week it would have been 1-2-3 for NZ.
  • 7 0
 I'm not one for generic UCI bashing, but if they had scheduled European world cups around this time instead of North American ones then these races would have had a much stronger field. In pure MTB terms world cups are more important, but the commonwealth games likely reaches a much larger audience and is a great chance to promote the sport
  • 10 0
 Good to see Sam Gaze not pulling the fingers at anyone this year.
  • 7 0
 Just knows the blind spots now
  • 3 0
 The battle for the silver and bronze in the women's was a cracker! Candice and Isla awesome on the hills and then Zoe re-catching on the descents. I thought Zoe's hold on the other two was gone but somehow she came back, and when she finally got to the top first it was all over for silver.
  • 5 0
 Not a single Canadian. Hmmm. I wonder if they are all at Mount St. Anne.
  • 12 0
 Aparently Canada decided to use all of the allocated spots in Cycling for Road and Track only, so they sent nobody for MTB. They always used to send 4 Road and 4 Mtn in each of the mens and womens categories, with the rest always going to Track, but put all 16 spots (combined mens & womens) to Road instead. Track always gets more, because there are so few events for Track.
  • 1 0
 @tonestar:
  • 11 6
 I thought PB headlines were a safe space from spoilers, but it seems not.
  • 5 5
 Dude, it’s the Commonwealth Games. Not like it’s the World Champs.
  • 9 0
 It's generally a good idea to avoid a sporting news website if you want to avoid news about that particular sport...
  • 4 1
 Evie broke my 9yr old sons heart when she passed on Snowshoe WC. He's still got her back I guess!
  • 3 0
 Only eight riders in the womens field?
  • 2 0
 That is like the field size for a Thursday night race
  • 5 1
 Given that it was scheduled mid week in the UK, between world cups in the USA/Canada it is surprising that they got any top tier riders.
  • 1 0
 I was surprised - well, my jaw hit the floor when I saw the starters - by such a low entry. It was just dismal. How could it be that low, I do not know. But, congratulations to the medal winners - well, all the participants. I have little interest in XC, being an old DHer and BMXer, but do appreciate how hard it is
  • 1 0
 @Bearorso: The problem was:
Friday - XCC World Cup Snowshoe, USA
Sunday - XCO World Cup Snowshoe, USA
Wednesday - XCO Commonwealth Games Cannock Chase England
Friday - XCC World Cup MSA, Canada
Sunday - XCO World Cup MSA, Canada

No rider with a shout at the World Cup overall would compromise their season by missing World Cup weekends to race the Commonwealth Games. I expect that Evie Richards and Isla Short were only racing because they have missed other World Cups earlier in the year.
  • 2 0
 @lewiscraik: That....

.... and also National Federation High Performance programs. Funded on medals. There's a maximum cycling team size (Road + Track + MTB) at the games, and many federations favoured stacking team in other disciplines over MTB. Canada most notably with zero MTB entries Frown
  • 1 0
 @Bearorso: team size limits per nation. And many of the "big players" favoured stacking odd's in favour of Track Cycling in particular, so minimal MTB athletes. Definitely a shame for the MTB event, as huge amount of talent missing that could have been there
  • 2 0
 @Cabin: Yep. Though you'd think someone would do the maths on medal potential. Australia sent 28 riders to the track and only 1 to the womens XC - I know where I'd be throwing my athletes instead of the track if I wasn't Australia.
  • 1 0
 @lewiscraik: As a midlander, Evie was never going to miss a home Commonwealth games, and the single race with much less travel suited Isla's recovery program better.

I felt absolutely gutted for Emily. Being an expert level rider rather than elite, she had similar pace and skills with the Mauritian rider in practice, and didn't deserve to crash out like that.
  • 2 0
 I need to see someone make a commonwealth champs jersey out of all these flags
  • 2 0
 Go Evie....was cool.to go watch it...
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