choked up every time?
I haven't felt so proud of British sporting achievement probably since I was a kid, (and that was when they still had chariot racing as an olympic discipline)
If ONLY our national football team appeared to care as much as our athletes do. But I think quite a few of the well known players have been shown up as the arrogant mercenaries they probably are, who are more concerned with their life styles, than with the true spirit of the sport they represent.
Our athletes have shown all the qualities that you could possibly want from sporting heroes, whether they have won gold,silver or bronze, made it to a final or taken part.
It has been a fantastic effort, and if there is a parade for them, then I will want to be there to salute their achievements.
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and we`ve pi55ed off the Aussies, anyone see that on SSN. they dont like it "up um"
In Keegans imortal words "id love it LOVE IT, if we finish above em"
The only downer for me was the tennis. With the admission by Andrew Murray that he had not prepared, while it is the meaning of life for most participants, just look at Paula radcliffe, who I am not particularly fond of, but she worked through stress fractures, poisnous snake bites to get there, knowing that she was probably to going to reach her dream.
To follow on from that London Tonight were showing the amount of volunteers it takes to help in running various parts of the games,i:e Directions, first aid that sort of thing, and my mind leapt to 2012 and all those " little eastenders" ....................... Look After Yer Car Mister!!!
I was very wrong.
Witness me punching the air today after another gold medal. It's fantastic.
Apparently the Aussies' latest riposte is that we can only win when we're sitting! (Ohuruogu's disproven that...)
What mustn't be allowed to happen now is to bask in this success and not realise that even more effort is required to sustain things for 2012. Even now we hear that there is no more money available for the games. The sports budget is under-funded by £100M as private sector support has not been forthcoming. So lets hope we can find the money. You can rest assured that the Aussies wont be at all happy at their poor showing in cycling (one medal) and will be planning their reposte in four years time.
I've never been so excited watching the olympics.
what a great effort it has been!
Wasn't how I was feeling tbh, everytime Chris Hoy's been up there.............my, my, what a lovely fella he is ;-)
Then as I worked my way in from the back page I came across the football - which has been relegated of the very back pages - and started reading about how John Terry had "bounced back", "shown character" and had been made England captain. Now, I quite like John Terry as a captain-type figure, but it got me thinking. What exactly had the fella - who's on £100k+ per week - actually had to "bounce back" from? What adversity has he overcome? Missing a penalty? Don't make me laugh!
I know it's been said many times before, but reading these different stories one after the other made me really appreciate that footballers - and indeed football people in general, from the mangers through to the reporters and those tits on MotD and Sky - are the bunch of overpaid, self-centred, out of touch with reality w*nkers that I always thought they were!
Bring on 2012. Can't wait to witness some of the dedication, enthusiasm and "never-say-die" attitude at first hand.
Be interesting to see if that same local council jump on the bandwagon and show a sudden interest in swimming when she gets back home.
LOL Killers Sis at Chris Hoy!!
mind you a guy with all that bling on some women eh some women