Comments on: Always Believe in Your Soul

By: bec

bec — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:38:53 +0000

James Neate – totally missed him, but, hurrah! Won and through!

By: James Neate

James Neate — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:25:53 +0000

Keep an eye out for Paddy Barnes! http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/9/218679.shtml
Next fight tomorrow. Have to admit that normally I’m no sports fan but the coverage of the range of sports has kept me enthralled.

By: bec

bec — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:12:09 +0000

martymankins – 2012 games! Watch Britain do what we do… reasonably well! I’ve signed up as a volunteer and will hear in 2011 if I’ve got the gig… If I knew who Bob Costas was and what The View was I would be suitably impressed? Dismayed?

By: martymankins

martymankins — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:05:13 +0000

That's right... 2012 London gets the games. Should be exciting. And I'm with blondefabulous... Mark Spitz should have been there in person, not via satellite link with Bob Costas on the view. martymankinss last blog post..Scooter Sunday #18

By: bec

bec — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:02:10 +0000

Dan – and we’re still third after another day (although Australia is now crawling up our arse). I tried to find something to do with gold and China… Oh! Beijing Bling! Dammit!

yorksdevil – Nowhere does it say Northern Ireland – not even on the official website! Pissed off NI should well be! Going by Google’s July 2007 estimates on population China is just under a fifth – so we were both wrong… but let’s still be a little bit scared by that!

Kevin Spencer – It’s one to tell the kids in the future – although now, apparently, he’s got his eye on a London haul of 9… How many calories is he going to have to eat for that?

Penelope – Watching far too much Olympic’s means you now qualify for the new Couch Potato event to be launched at London!

blondefabulous – That would have been a little ‘in your face’ for Spitz but I imagine they’ll be a nice photo opportunity once Mark has stopped stabbing his Phelp’s voodoo doll!

James Neate – It may make you a pedant but it makes you a smart one! Did the Belfast Boxer win any medals – because if so I demand DEMAND they be added to GB’s total!

By: James Neate

James Neate — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:15:52 +0000

Nice to know that someone else knows the difference between the UK and GB (does that make me a pedant?). To confuse matters though I’m sure I saw a boxer, born in Belfast, fighting for Eire!

By: blondefabulous

blondefabulous — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:21:03 +0000

Go GB!!! I still say the IOC should have flown Mark Spitz out to Bejing to see Phelps break his 7 Gold record. They kind of wrote him off even before Phelps had hit the pool. 2012 9s gonna RAWK! blondefabulouss last blog post..And So, It Begins!

By: Penelope

Penelope — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:30:53 +0000

I watched far too much of the Olympics over the weekend but Hoo-bloody-rah! Didn't we do well? I loved it all too ;o) Penelopes last blog post..There won't be a next time.

By: Kevin Spencer

Kevin Spencer — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:59:13 +0000

I couldn't believe it when I noticed we were third in the table. Go us! I must admit I did smile when Phelps won his eighth gold. Nice to say you saw the best swimmer in the history of swimming win his eight golds. Kevin Spencers last blog post..Paris By Night

By: yorksdevil

yorksdevil — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:49:48 +0000

We compete as Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They just generally don’t mention the last bit because it’s a mouthful. ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’ is a little unwieldy as country names go.

Someone should probably told Phelps that gold prices have dropped dramatically in recent weeks. On the other hand, maybe that’s why he needs so much of it; in which case someone should tell him that they are only gold plated, not solid.

Oh, and isn’t China about a quarter of the world’s population?