He waved to his family in the stands as he came around the second bend, then coasted at the very back of the pack right through the first 1,000m, thinking it the safest place to be.
God is passed at the first bend.
At the first bend in the lane, he saw the cruiser parked and gave the officers a little wave.
At the first bend he tripped over the legs of the English runner JJ Gillies, falling off the track.
He crashed with Latvia's Maris Strombergs, the two-time defending champion, and Switzerland's David Graf at the first bend of the opening race when in the lead.
The title track (John Lennon's Imagine as a slow soul song by Pink, which gets funky and, finally, African-choral) almost stopped me at the first bend.
The Champion Stakes field has been reduced by eight to a manageable 11, though that may still be enough to provoke traffic problems at the first bend.
The conventional wisdom is that, as in motor racing, whoever can take the advantage at the first bend can make life very difficult for anyone behind, but in sailing there are different tracks available to competitors on different sides of the course.
Hindes, the specialist starter, wobbled and lost control of his bike before tumbling to the track at the beginning of the first bend.
Referee Dave Robinson reportedly studied replays of the collision between Roynon and Mildenhall's Stefan Nielsen as they came out of the fourth bend at the end of the first lap, before excluding the former's replacement for the re-staging of the final heat.
At Champs, Donkey Man sprints around the first bend, hunting down the other runners, then passing as though oblivious to them.
