Getting a road bike immediately and starting to train for 2012. Emma Pooley only started racing 3 years ago. 3 YEARS!fivelive's coverage - nicely irreverent & quirkyThe BBC Guide to our potential Gold RushDarren Campbell's podcast - he had Boardman on the other day, who I thought nailed the difference in the mindset between the cyclists & the swimmers - too many swimmers saying they're here for the experience, rather than talking about winning medals, hence the difference in results. Seems fair enough. Also has snippets of commentary from when we win stuff...Matt Pinsent's charmingly bumbling attempts at reportingThis article about American swimmer Eric Shanteau, who delayed the start of treatment for Testicular cancer to swim at the Olympics. Thanks to Tom for putting it my way.Great Olympic Moments from the keyboard of Andy Bull - now with scary photo on blog, and not at all how I'd pictured him.Barnes in BeijingGetting hot under the collar at past injustices. Today I am outraged at the treatment of Jim Thorpe: Stockholm 1912. Jim Thorpe – part native American and considered the greatest all round athlete in first half of the 20th century - was awarded gold for the decathlon and pentathlon by the King of Sweden who told him "you are the greatest athlete in the world," to which Thorpe replied "thanks king". He was later forced to return his medals due to playing baseball in a minor professional league match. He tried for years to be reinstated but Olympic president Avery Brundage (whom Thorpe had easily beaten in Stockholm) refused to give way. However, 71 years later and 30 years after Thorpe's death in 1982, the IOC lifted its ban and returned Thorpe's name to the record books and the replica medals were given to his family.
Read more of this kind of thing in Matthew Syed's
50 Greatest Olympic moments.
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