It’s the Olympics it only happens every four years so I knew I

It’s the Olympics, it only happens every four years so I knew I had to finish it.”Explaining the accident, he said: “I’m very disappointed at the moment, really upset. During the last 3km, the New Zealanders pulled away, turning it into a straight Kiwi fight for gold. Docherty was 7.87sec behind Carter.”I felt relatively in control throughout the race,” Carter said. “I was definitely having a good day.”The Britons Andrew Johns and Tim Don finished 16th and 18th respectively, both of them three minutes off the winning pace. Jenkins was the last of the finishers over the line, in 2hr 5min 33.60sec. “Normally I would have just got off and gone home but this is the Olympics.

Also I knew there was lots of wheel stops [ahead] and riders behind me when it happened.”I thought I might be able to beat them but they passed me, so then it was just about finishing the race. I’m disappointed for myself, my family and my friends that have come all this way to see me,” Jenkins added.The race was won by New Zealand’s Hamish Carter in 1hr 51min 7.73sec. His compatriot, Bevan Docherty, the reigning world champion, took silver, with Switzerland’s Sven Riederer coming third.Carter, Docherty and Riederer stayed together for most of the final leg of yesterday’s event, the 10km run. Marc Jenkins finished last of 45 in yesterday’s triathlon but raised some of the biggest cheers of the day for completing the swim-ride-run marathon at all.
The 28-year-old Welshman’s bike was so badly damaged during an accidental collision on the 40km ride that Jenkins had to carry it and push it uphill for 2km until he reached the next “wheel stop” and could make a change.The problem occurred, Jenkins said, when an unnamed competitor’s quick-release lever – a protruding device that makes wheel changes quicker – took out six of the spokes on his back wheel.The obvious course of action for most athletes would have been to withdraw The field was streaming past. Yet he refused to quit, saying afterwards that the Olympic arena had spurred him on.”My initial thought was to stop right there, that I couldn’t continue the race,” he said. It was clear Jenkins would probably never even catch up, let alone win, if and when he even made it to the wheel stop, running in cycling shoes with a bike on his shoulder. That 16th and last race did not go well for Draper and Hiscocks, who picked the less favoured side of the course for the first leg and then were playing catch-up.So will they carry on? The hunger for gold, was “undiminished” Hiscocks said.

“There is no reason why we shouldn’t still be there, fighting for a gold medal in China.”Brilliantly winning a record fifth medal and his second gold, with a race to spare, in the Star class was Brazil’s Torben Grael, with crew Marcelo Ferreira. A “totally gutted” Iain Percy and Steve Mitchell continued their horror show with a seventh and a last, blowing any medal hopes, as have Leigh McMillan and Mark Bulkeley in the Tornado catamaran.. The new partnership was born months later, working at a punishing rate ever since both from a base in deepest Dorset and around the world “We have had very few days off,” said Draper. After a time to reflect, made longer as Draper was asked to complete the mandatory dope test twice, he said: “We are both disappointed. We came here to win that gold medal.”The British pair had gone out knowing they were just two points off the eventual silver medallists, Rodion Luka and George Leonchuk of the Ukraine, with the world champions, Iker Martinez and Xabier Fernandez of Spain, comfortably winning the gold. There will be no more medals this year, but Britain’s sailing team is the most successful in any discipline, with two gold, a silver and two bronze medals.Four years ago they went home with three golds and two silvers, a difficult act to follow, with one of those silver medals going to Hiscocks, in the 49er, crewing for Ian Barker.

They came to win and when they had to settle for a bronze medal after the final race yesterday it was not just disappointment they could not hide, it was angry frustration.
Draper was stamping on the side deck of his boat, Hiscocks was seething, and both turned their backs on the assembled finish line photographers to avoid international images of their scowling and frowning. Chris Draper and Simon Hiscocks did not bring their high-performance 49er dinghy to Greece just to make up the numbers or enjoy being part of the scene. Forget the de Coubertin principle of the revived Olympics in the 1890s. “I appreciate the fans and the media talking me up but I think it pissed Hal off.”. It turned a possible birdie into a bogey-six.Why John Daly, who also scored a 67, has never appeared in the Ryder Cup is a mystery only a half-a-dozen American captains can answer He certainly did not lobby Hal Sutton “I don’t kiss anybody’s ass to get something,” he said. The score was made when he hit a wedge to four feet at the fifth, a three-wood on to the green at the next to set up an eagle, and two three-irons and a wedge into the par-five ninth for another birdie. Donald, who has a wonderful tempo and balance in his swing, appeared to have hit his driving iron sweetly at the sixth but just came up short in the pond.