What a week… What an Olympics. Where do I start? I guess the first thing is the mens triathlon on Sunday morning… What a good result technically. Almost everything went right, and the pictures were fantastic.
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I actually did work which appeared on TV. During the triathlon I was vision switching between two of the three motorcycles. My job was to decide which rooftop downlink from the repeating helicopters provided a better picture. Thanks to the professionalism and ability of the people I was working with, my job was VERY easy – which was good since I also needed to monitor positions of helicopters on the computer at times.
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The women’s triathon was also good, but not quite so good. I think the people on the roofs and the pilots got better – cynically I would say this is why they have the women’s events on the day before. Our boat was late arriving for a couple of reasons. Firstly we were told that we needed a police escort to take the boat from rushcutters bay to the opera house. The other thing was that there was a bomb scare – so we needed to have divers check out boat.
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What a week… What an Olympics. Where do I start? I guess the first thing is the mens triathlon on Sunday morning… What a good result technically. Almost everything went right, and the pictures were fantastic. I actually did work …<\/p>\n