Hyde Park is all empty and lonely and forlorn. The thundering herds of Olympics visitors have gone. They are tearing down the BT London Live viewing point - only hours after tens of thousands cheered Mo Farah as he blasted into Olympic history.... (read more)
Amazing day today watching the Triathlon blast through Hyde Park! Total luck on my part - I was sitting at my machine in the morning, about to go running, when Barney (aka St. Barnabas) rang and asked if I wanted to meet to watch the event.... (read more)
Okay, first things first again: Britain Took Six Golds Today!!! On the water, on the track, and in the velodrome... they're calling it the greatest day in British sporting history.... (read more)
USA Knots Up the Medal Table with China! (18 golds each - and 37 total medals to 34, our way!) YEAHHH!!! And Team GB edges out France - and that, really is all we ask, beating the French! - for 4th place!!!... (read more)
As you may not know if you've been crushed under a rock, Bradley Wiggins became last month the first Brit EVER to win the Tour de France. And today he became our most prolific Olympic champion on top of it... And we were there!!!... (read more)
So yesterday was the first actual Olympics-day-stroke-workday - and thus the big test if anything/everything would work.... (read more)
"As I write these words there are semi-naked women playing beach volleyball in the middle of the Horse Guards Parade immortalised by Canaletto. They are glistening like wet otters and the water is plashing off the brims of the spectators' sou'westers. The whole thing is magnificent and bonkers." - Boris, the Mayor... (read more)
So, as you will or will not have read, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, just before his big visit to London, executed the blinding diplomatic maneuver of slagging off London's epic seven-year preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games.... (read more)
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