That's it for another 4 years. The olympics is over and it actually turned out to be very good. Of course it was good to see Team GB get a load of medals, but if I have any complaints it is that they seemed to do well in sports that are elite and really for those who have a financial start in life. Who do you know who has a yacht, or a rowing boat? I've got an inflatable dinghy... will that do? The cycling and the swimming were perhaps the more accessible sports. Swimming saw lots of Stockport Metro's do well and I got the impression that the winners were from fairly humble origins...one of them even came from Mansfield, poor child. In Scotland Chris Hoy is getting a big pat on the back, and for a while I was under the impression he was an every day bloke who done well in a sport. But then I discovered Chris Hoy was educated at George Watsons.. a big private school in Edinburgh. Boo! He's not normal, he's elite...how disappointing. Not as disappointed as Emma was when she discovered Mark Foster is rumoured to be Colin Jacksons 'partner'. I had to laugh at Matthew Mitcham, the Australian diver who got gold. Watch this video of him and there is no clues he is gay until right at the end of the clip when he gives a really gay wave to the camera. He may as well have shouted 'I'm free!'.
As for the athletics. I help out with the junior section of our running club. Some kids have talent, but what do you do with it? The opportunities to develop it are not there and it is left to people like me who don't even know how to do the sports we are supposed to teach. If there were medals to be won for doing Basil Fawlty impressions in the 100m, or getting as close to the marshall with the javelin, then we would be clear winners.
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