Saturday night one of my more eagerly anticipated events, the Mens 10M diving final. This was my final event of this quite wonderful two weeks. It had the potential to be very special and in the end it delivered outstanding drama. 12 divers qualify for the final and they had been through two rounds of elimination in the last 24 hours. One that had made…
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 house on Downing Street, across the street is the Banqueting House that dates to 1622. I’ve no idea who came up with the concept when the bid document was being…
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 lifting poles with metal disks on each end. So I went and was prepared to be a little cynical about the whole thing, but I’ve matured to the point that…
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 being part of this. Walking to the tube station after the athletics (11pm) every one I walked past (and there were legions of them) wished me a good night. Being…
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 France podium, it was not that long ago that no British riders took part in the race. Onto London, billions of pounds have been spent, stunning stadiums have been constructed,…
The hardest job…
A responsible pet owner has many roles to play. The final, and unquestionably the hardest, is to say goodbye when the time comes. She was laying in my lap Saturday when I said goodbye to just about the best cat I’ve ever known.
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 world in the Olympic opening ceremony was somewhat surreal and at times moving. Over all, it was rather well done. Mixed up in the celebration of British music was some…