I've been really enjoying the Olympics - and there's lots more to come this weekend. It's a real pain having to goto work when there's so much good sport to watch. The highlights for me so far have been South Africa's amazing win in the 400x100 metre swimming relay (how fantastic was that!!) and also Paul Hamm's amazing come back in the all round men's gymnastics. The American was leading this event, then crashed horribly on the vault and fell down to the 9th position. And that was the end of him, or so i thought at the time. But then, somehow, he managed to claw his way back, event by event, back up the field. Finally, after an almost perfect twirl on his last event - the high bar - he edged back into the gold postion. Amazing to see how you can triumph if you don't give up.
Talking about Americans, as I wrtite this, Michael Phelps, the swimmer, has just won his 5th gold medal. The commentator calculated that if he was a country, he would currently sit at 9th in the olympic medal table. That's eight positions ahead of the UK and 11 ahead of SA. Amazing stuff
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