Drama in the Avon
The story has to be told: Marty Svensen, commerce student, won the annual Avon bike race without once riding his bicycle. While the five other competitors in the University of Canterbury capping event rode furiously from the Square to the Avon river, Marty ran, pushing, behind, ■‘The chain came off and a tyre went,” die bemoaned later. ■' Marty was .last into the river at the Worcester Street bridge but almost immediately surged, to the fronts Second place-getter; Conrad
Heraud, made a desperate attempt to upset the leader near the finish, but missed and subsided into the mud. [ Three ■ other entries appeared, bedraggled, in due course, then everybody dried and left the scene. That was when lan Mclnnes chose to emerge from the mud: he had been first into the water with great gusto, lost his glasses, and spent the' race -groping for them ipj the water. 7/ ‘ ’ He finished the event A. ■wet, tired, last, and unrioticed.
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Press, 2 May 1981, Page 6
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