Beijing or bust
Whether you agree with the fact that China have been awarded the Olympic games this year due to severely questionable human rights issues, one thing is clear, they certainly know how to lay on a good Olympics.
The opening ceremony is arguably one of the best opening ceremonies I have ever had the pleasure to witness and easily beat Sydney 2000 in pomp and ceremony. It even beat the sight of Muhammad Ai at the Atlanta games – that’s how high rated the opening ceremony last Friday.
Despite being just three days old, we have seen remarkable performances, not least in the swimming pool with record after record falling in what seems to be every heat, sem final or final. I know this isn’t the case but it just feels that way.
I sat watching Nicole cook sprinting to her first Olympic gold in the women’s road race yesterday in severe weather conditions. Wonderful effort from the British team who supported Cook admirably.
In the early hours of this morning we saw an upset in the 400m freestyle with Rebecca Adlington snatching Gold at the last gap over highly rated Katie Hoff.
Adlington left the Italian world record holder Federica Pellegrini and France’s world champion Laure Manaudou in her wake, in fifth and eighth. Despite her loss, I still like Manaudou but for purely asthetic reasons only!!
Despite the sex video release Manaudou managed to retain her dignity.
