Wow how good was Slater on the last run! It looked like he was getting pulled up!!

What an event, so many great climbs! Here’s how it panned out:

Head-to-head round:

Tuqiri and Symonds - Symonds - Symonds
Griffiths and Deladio - Deladio - Deladio
Slater and Whincup - Slater - Slater
Hurst and Hooker - Hooker - Hooker

Semis:

Hooker and Deladio - Hooker - Hooker
Slater and Whincup - Slater - Slater

Finals:

Hooker vs Slater 1 - Hooker in 9.33
Hooker vs Slater 2 - Slater in 7.83!

Billy Slater scores the extra 20 points for beating Steve Hooker in his challenge event. As Billy said, he’s “here to win, not buy cattle” lol

~Ninj

Why would the ginger pick that as his event???

Perhaps he felt that it was his strongest event; he can’t exactly do pole vaulting. And just look at his results; he won nearly all of his climbs except the last. I was so excited when Billy won the climb!

Pudden - 01 March 2009 09:40 AM

Perhaps he felt that it was his strongest event; he can’t exactly do pole vaulting. And just look at his results; he won nearly all of his climbs except the last. I was so excited when Billy won the climb!

true. they should all try pole vaulting!! heheh

Billy Slater is a champion.  Representing Rugby League very well.

Wow, I thought hooker was great in this challenge and thought he would win it for sure. He looked like he was flying up the wall but I was very excited when billy won the last climb, what a time!!! what an athlete!!!

Billy Slater, what a man! He’s going to smash this competition!

Go the Melbourne Storm.

Billys#1 - 05 March 2009 05:42 AM

Billy Slater, what a man! He’s going to smash this competition!

Go the Melbourne Storm.

I’ll second that!
Go Billy and Go the Storm!!!

Hooker was great but Billy just rocked!!!! Go Storm!!
:-D

Too bad, too.  I love Hooker.

Got to hand it to Slater, though, he’s an incredible athlete. 

I was still cheering for Hooker, though.