The build up's all done now and the main event's here and underway. Every 4 years we get a great festival of sport, covering most of the team and individual events that people play. There's some obvious ones in there, some less obvious ones but what it does mean is a sportnut like me gets to see some sports on the telly that otherwise don't get a look in. The sad thing is the time zone, because China is 7 hours ahead of British Summer Time most of the events will take place when we're either asleep or at work. The GB evening time neatly coincides with the Chinese sleeping time.
Today is an excellent day already for GB :-) We have a gold medal winner ! That would be Nicole Cooke who had a superb ride in the Women's Cycling Road Race in atrocious conditions. They seem to be having monsoon type conditions over in China at the moment, to the point where the BBC presenters have a bucket in their studio.
I've just been watching the Women's team bronze medal match in the archery. That's one of the first sports I got involved with, over in N.Ireland as a boy. (It was something that my mum & dad could send all 3 of us to every week) GB were involved in this one too but unfortunately just missed out by 2 points. Ah well - they'll be hungrier for it when the Games come to our place in 4 years :-)
Right - Olympics had temporary reign over the Telly, time for the Test Match again ! After watching Nicole Cooke get her gold that is. There won't be too many chances to stand up for the anthem in these games, best to make the most of what opportunities we get :-)
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