Saturday
The competition was officially declared over at about 6.30pm last night so it was hair-letting-down time. I was invited to dine with the Brit team (thank you!) and can now officially state that they have been eating like kings all week. Oey (wife of deputy team leader Andy) is originally from Thailand and deserves a Michelin star. Andy tells me she’s available for other competitions, you’d be lucky to have her.
Last night videos were played on a big screen, the one I particularly liked was called ‘Fatima’s Hand’ and was about a base jump from a 600m rock in Africa - with Spanish pilot Ramon Morillas acting as support crew (with a paramotor on his back). It felt like end of term, another international competition has come and gone, friendships created or renewed and a good time had by competitors, supporters and organisers.
The final scores are out - Team GB have won bronze in the PF category, Dave Hairs is in line to have a world record for longest distance - 110km on 1.5kg of fuel! - and he also ended up 4th in PF1 class. I gather he messed up the slow/fast task, if he hadn’t then he certainly would have got a medal, maybe even come first. Who knows?
The paella dish has been cleaned (phew!) and the closing ceremony is at 1300. Time to fill in reports and other such stuff.