There was no communication, no confirmation. But then, the little and large duo reemerged. Down, but so far from out.<\/p>\n
“Adrenaline is a wonderful thing,” a battered, bruised, but buoyant Fachie said, speaking to BBC Sport Scotland about their “little slide”.<\/p>\n
“You don’t really feel a lot of pain at the time, but it created a lot of anger. I think Aaron casually walked me away before I said something I shouldn’t say, but we were so fired up to go and prove a point there.” <\/p>\n
“You can’t really describe it,” Pope agreed. “You’ve got one race to try and win, give him the fairytale ending and live happily ever after. <\/p>\n
“So, you’re on the floor, pretty upset, and then you’ve got all this stuff saying just keep your head up, go have a scrap and have a scrap for your best mate.”<\/p>\n
“I said to Aaron before we went up, ‘the story’s written here, let’s finish it off’ and we were so determined to do that,” Fachie added.<\/p>\n
And do that they did. It was less about tactics and more about tenacity. And there was only one winner there.<\/p>\n
Fachie forced his way to the finish line just before Bell in a neck-and-neck encounter, but his tight grip on the bars was swiftly released, raising them in the air before pounding his chest.<\/p>\n
“There was no way they were getting past,” Fachie said. <\/p>\n
“It was almost like they poked a bear, inspired something in us, and once you get this crowd roaring, you know you’re winning. There’s no way they’re coming back in a million years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was no communication, no confirmation. But then, the little and large duo reemerged. Down, but so far…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-841366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}