I haven’t been watching too much of the Olympics as yet, what with being in Edinburgh over the weekend and not seeing any TV. I kept up with the British results on the interweb, and have been pleasantly surprised so far.
I was expecting a dire performance, but we had a gold medal by the second day. That was then added to yesterday in the pool, and there’s some good prospects later this week before it all goes wrong in the athletics.
I’m not a fan of every sport in the Olympics (BMX? Puhlease), but it’s good to see some of the lesser sports get some time in the limelight. I saw some of the volleyball yesterday, which was brilliant, and in the office this morning we’ve had some canoeing on the TV.
Canoeing is damn intense, and looks like really hard work. I’ve only ever done it on perfectly calm canals and lakes, and that was difficult enough. To do it in the artificial equivalent of rapids looks nigh-on impossible, especially those upstream gates.
The Briton pictured, David Florence, won a silver medal this morning, adding to our not insignificant haul thus far. Michael Phelps has still won more gold medals than all of our competitors though!
