Thread: Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games ... April 4 - 15

This is the home page for the event ... https://www.gc2018.com/

The Para and able bodies events are being run concurrently.

I'd completely blanked that they were even on this year much less actually started.

Credit:- Congratulations to the soap dodgers (Poms) who scored the first medal of the games with a GOLD in the Woman's Triathlon

As for the rest of the day ...




Credit

Sounds like they are making a pig's arse of it.

The awkward blunders embarrassing the Commonwealth Games | Daily Mail Online

Even had a sheila flashing her bare bum!!!

Originally Posted by noelbino

Even had a sheila flashing her bare bum!!!

Posts like this are no use without photographic evidence.

Originally Posted by noelbino

Even had a sheila flashing her bare bum!!!

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Posts like this are no use without photographic evidence.

Commonwealth Games opening ceremony 'bum flasher' puts cracking performance behind her


Dancer Georgia Lear says she can now see the funny side of her wardrobe malfunction.

It was the butt beamed around the world.
Anyone watching the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony on the Gold Coast on Wednesday night will remember that one cracking shot
during Rikki-Lee Coulter's beach-themed performance.


Were any puns missed when she publicly commented?

"Last night I was feeling really BUMMED ... BUTT that's all BEHIND me now!
I hope you all had a CRACKing good time watching the ceremony.
Don't forget the camera adds 5kgs. yes it was me!!!!"

Nope ... they are all there

Here

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Medal count at the start of today's competition.

Aussies have done well in the Pool and the Cycling Track ... but that's mostly behind them now.

Track and Field starts today.

Nor many blonds/blood nuts running today.

I'm all for LadyBoys (don't over think that) ... but, please, more 'Lady' then 'Boy'.


FFS ...


Laurel Hubbard is favoured to win gold at the Commonwealth Games.

Commonwealth Games: Split in Pacific ranks over transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard

One of the most controversial moments of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games will come when Laurel Hubbard, the transgender
weightlifter from New Zealand, takes to the stage in the women's +90 kilogram category.

Key points:

• Samoan head coach opposes Hubbard competing at Games
• Oceania weightlifting chief says Hubbard has followed all rules
• The New Zealander is to compete on Monday

Since Hubbard became eligible to compete in international events at the start of last year, she has polarised views in the weightlifting
community, particularly in the Pacific.

Head coach of the Samoan team Jerry Wallwork remains firmly opposed to Hubbard competing at the Games.

"A man is a man and a woman is a woman and I know a lot of changes have gone through,
but in the past Laurel Hubbard used to be a male champion weightlifter," he said.

Secretary-general of the Oceania Weightlifting Institute Paul Coffa takes a much more conciliatory line.
"She's a lovely girl, she spent a few weeks with us at the institute," he said.

Here

Onya Paul !

I'm sick with nostalgia remembering '82. Good times.

Originally Posted by Cujo

I'm sick with nostalgia remembering '82. Good times.

It's Started

Five Cameroon athletes missing from the Commonwealth Games

Five Cameroon athletes competing in the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games have gone missing from the athletes village.Weightlifter Olivier Matam Matam and boxers Christian Ndzie Tsoye and Simplice Fotsala went missing earlier this week.
Weightlifters Arcangeline Fouodji Sonkbou and Petit Minkoumba went missing on Tuesday, Cameroon press attache Simon Molombe told Fairfax Media.Cameroon chef de mission Agbor Nso Victor reported the missing athletes to the Queensland Police Service, which was yet to provide a comment on the incident.
Mr Molombe said all the athletes had competed except for Tsoye, who had been due to fight in the boxing men's 91kg quarter-final on Tuesday.
New Zealand's David Nyika won the bout via a walkover, after Tsoye did not show up for the weigh-in.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/quee...11-p4z8wf.html

Arf.

Originally Posted by bobo746

It's Started

Five Cameroon athletes missing from the Commonwealth Games

Hope the FSB are taking note and planning to post extra security round the world cup accommodation facilities to ensure there is no repeat of this in Russia this summer!

The poor oppressed Cameroon athletes will win the hide and seek medals.

Originally Posted by bobo746

It's Started

Five Cameroon athletes missing from the Commonwealth Games

Five Cameroon athletes competing in the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games have gone missing from the athletes village.Weightlifter Olivier Matam Matam and boxers Christian Ndzie Tsoye and Simplice Fotsala went missing earlier this week.
Weightlifters Arcangeline Fouodji Sonkbou and Petit Minkoumba went missing on Tuesday, Cameroon press attache Simon Molombe told Fairfax Media.

Cameroon chef de mission Agbor Nso Victor reported the missing athletes to the Queensland Police Service, which was yet to provide a comment on the incident.
Mr Molombe said all the athletes had competed except for Tsoye, who had been due to fight in the boxing men's 91kg quarter-final on Tuesday.
New Zealand's David Nyika won the bout via a walkover, after Tsoye did not show up for the weigh-in.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/quee...11-p4z8wf.html

Missing Commonwealth Games athletes' visas expire at midnight, Sydney refugee service contacted



The refugee casework and legal advice service has confirmed athletes missing after the Commonwealth Games
have contacted their centre in Sydney.

Athletes from five African nations who disappeared during last month's Commonwealth Games have until midnight
to apply for protection visas or risk mandatory detention and deportation for overstaying their visa.




The ABC understands more than 19 athletes are still in Australia and are seeking advice on how to stay.
The missing visitors include eight athletes from Cameroon, two from Uganda, one from Rwanda and others from
Ghana and Sierra Leone.

The Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) said a number of athletes had contacted the organisation in
Randwick to organise applications for protection visas.


Missing Commonwealth Games athletes' visas expire at midnight, Sydney refugee service contacted - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

^ I am on the Gold Coast have a spare room and may be in a position to offer asylum to the one on the bottom left while the nooks and crannies of the various legal openings are being thoroughly explored.

Enquiries by PM if she comes across this thread on the googles about herself.

The head count for these hide and seek gold medallists is now 250

Immigration officials told a Senate Estimates committee in Canberra this afternoon about 250 people who came to Australia for the Games were still in the country, even though their visas had expired.

Malisa Golightly, from the Department of Home Affairs, said about 190 of those people had already applied for protection visas.

Almost 200 Commonwealth Games attendees are looking for protection visas - Politics - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I recon if they placed on the podium then they are in like flynn and can go into bat for the green and gold at the 2020 olympics Tokyo.