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I watched all of that unfold live for once due to the closeness of the Japanese and Australian time zones.
I blame Bernie for Bianchi. The local organisers knew a typhoon was coming and clearly considered their best option was to start the race early but Bernie wouldn't allow this because of the effect on TV viewing schedules in Europe. Deploying a crane where they did in the middle of said typhoon was an act of compounding extreme stupidity. They should have called the race off at that stage ffs.
Agree, I think it was criminal.
Anyway, I can't remember what I specifically said about the incident, but knowing myself, I was likely very opinionated. Apparently I said something that 22 took issue with, so maybe he can dig it up and bump the thread so as to leave this thread on topic.