When an Olympic Games enters that exciting stage of 4x100m and 4x400m Relays with Hammer & Pole Vault finals pottering away in the field, we are suddenly aware it’s the penultimate day for Track & Field and a Closing Ceremony beckons and the passing of the Flame. On Sunday Night, London 2012 will say goodnight and Rio 2016 with plan, build and execute their extravaganza, in 3 years and 50 weeks times.
After winning in Boxing Semi’s and looking at the tooth count around the BMX Riders we mixed the afternoon with Rhythmic Gymnastic, though it’s really the Russians we watched, everyone else is just dressing, Sync Swimming is no different either. GB Girls win a Bronze at Hockey, Spain will have the task of beating The US Dream Team at Basketball, and Swedish men will throw a small ball with their hands at a bunch of like-minded French men in the aptly called Handball in those finals tomorrow & Sunday.
Day 14 results, especially tonight got me looking at this Doping thing, and it is getting a bit out of hand. Two women won GOLD Medals tonight, Lysenko a Hammer thrower & Cakir Alptekin a Middle Distance Runner (1500m), both served bans for admitting Doping, sorry it just leaves a bad taste. But on that note I remember a night in 1985, World Cup in Canberra, Australia, Four East German Women, Marlies Gohr was one of those stars, set a time that commentators said, “May never be broken”. So, 27 years later at The London Olympics, The Women’s USA Relay Team had enough talent to moved that stick around the 400m track faster than those superhuman East Germans. The Girls set a time of 40.82 seconds, un-bloody believable. Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter, you go Girls!
Sport at its low point Doping for Gold
My Mother used to say don’t swim on a full stomach, so why do they have food stops in the Open Water Swimming?
How do the Rhythmic Gymnasts stop the Ribbons from tangling?
Tomorrow
Rich
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