down when Tomasz came under me. I
was one lap. from the final. and it showed
I can possilily do better than I thought."
Steele also had to field an angry call
from Ryan Sullivan after the Aussie had
finished at the back of heat 21 - to miss
out on ~hing the semifinals.
Sullivan was a victim of an increasingly faulty tapes mechanism that delayed
his get-away from gate one.
"It was a total joke, and I am totally
pissed off with it," Sullivan said. "How
can XO run a World Championship in
such ~i rcumstances? The TV cameras
cau ht me out for touching the tapes in
ustralia, but when it comes to this sort
of thing, they declare the race before the
referee ould check the tapes . I couldn't
elieve it. I was stunned on the first lap,
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