Siting on an airplane heading home and reflecting on how the last two weeks have flashed by. I’ve taken dozens of trains, went to 14 events, seen British athletes win gold a couple of time,…
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A celebration of the city, and of us.
Today the city get’s given back to Londoners, a lot of people are heading home, but after the last 16 days I think the city is a little different. The most diverse and dynamic city on the planet…
One day, three venues and a couple of huge moments
Great day of sport that culminated with the 800 meter and 200 meter in the stadium last night. Tweet
An Olympic city
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And back to the center of things
This morning it was time for another visit to the center of this wonderful, wonderful Olympic games. Tweet
The best setting maybe?
Out of all the venues I’ve seen in the last 10 days, the Beach Volleyball arena is without question the best. Right in the center of historic Whitehall, behind one stand is the Prime Ministers…
Weightlifting!
Tonight we went to the EXCEL in London to watch the weightlifting. Going into this I’d been told it was really fun to watch live, I figured it just a lot of grunting and guys…
And this goes on for another week yet…
So today was a big day, Dorney Lake and rowing in the morning, followed by the first evening of athletics at the Olympic Stadium. So what did I learn? Every Olympic volunteer seemed to love…
Time to join the party…
I feel confident saying that we are in a golden era for British sports (the England football team excepted), the Olympics were preceded by Bradley Wigins and Chris Froom standing 1-2 on the Tour de…
And so it starts…
It started with the green and pleasant land travelled past Blake’s dark satanic mills and ended up in the digital age. It’s got to be said that Danny Boyle’s attempt to share Britishness with the…