So, I sloped off to bed a bit gutted at 4am, buzzing with the excitement of the BMX, wondering whether that was it on the Gold front - how wrong I was! Tim Brabants, Canoeing legend, we salute you! Listened to the final huddled over a radio at Clapham Junction with my brother. I wish I could say there was a cast of 1000s listening too, but no, just us. Still, great result. And he works as a Doctor in Leeds, which may be of interest to some readers, who look a bit peaky.
Some of today's headlines: Dai Hard (Dai the Splash), Fools Gold (relay & saling). I LOVE the Olympics, and am already feeling withdrawl symptoms, even though there are 3days left.
Then Our Girls put in a great performance in the modern Pentathlon, with Heather Fell winning silver - despite having been working in her local last Friday! She had her funding cut for a while when she was injured so had to work in the bar to keep going. Read more.
Only one of the boxers made it into the finals, James Degale, and proceeded to sing that he was in the Olympic final on the radio - with Nicky Campbell joining in. The other 2 got their bronzes after quite a roughing up in their semis.
One lad who should have got a medal was 17yo Aaron Cook, who looked to my uneducated eye to have been completely robbed in his bronze match. He was unlucky to go out in the last second of his first go, and was so upset that his opponent consoled him, but in the next one the local Chinese lad got a now-to-be-expected hometown decision.
Relay girls messed it up, surprise surprise, and then the Jamaican men took over and smashed the World Record, wiping out that obnoxious team of (possibly) juiced up yanks who won with such arrogance in 1996.
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