PS And why do the female beach volleyball players wear tiny bikinis? The males just wear ordinary floppy gear. Is there some hidden agenda at work here?
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Meanwhile, in Beijing...
Having been dazed by Badminton, I now find myself baffled by wind-surfing. I didn't realise they had to keep waggling the sail like that. It's very undignified. And they spread out so much you can't see who's winning and the 'expert' commentators make little sense. I know I should care - especially now we are in the freakish position of being two places above the convicts in the medals table - but I can't. And it would certainly be a disaster if national morale rose to such stratospheric levels that we forgot that Gordon Brown is very depressing and Ed Balls is in the wrong business. Also there's the matter of 2012. I see we are now trying to limit the increase in costs since the bid to a mere 400 per cent. Any more medals and we shall weaken, permitting another £10 billion or so to go down the tubes. Why not, since the Chinese appear to like doing this stuff, let them do it again? Only Brown can suggest this - the ensuing unpopularity would be water off the back of a duck that is no longer lame but dead. Go for it, Gordo, history will absolve you.
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some agenda is best hidden, and some not.
ReplyDeleteis windsurfing really an Olympic event or have you made that up? whatever else - pedalo racing? sandcastling? deckchair unfolding?
And it would certainly be a disaster if national morale rose to such stratospheric levels that we forgot that Gordon Brown is very depressing and Ed Balls is in the wrong business.
ReplyDeleteYes, and we've also forgotten to worry about the famous knife-crime 'epidemic'. And also bird flu and binge-drinking and carbon emissions.
The rare feelgood factor of the Olympic medal avalanche has even overshadowed the return of Gary Glitter, which by rights should have prompted a really good old-fashioned paedophile panic.
I haven't seen the windsurfing, but that's one event I'd enjoy watching. Flapping the sail? Trying to catch a puff or tacking, probably. Although neither should require a great deal of movement -- that usually slows you down.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to be windsurfing myself, and I will be -- a month from today.
As for what counts as an Olympics sport, I'm continually astonished. Today they're probably having the tiddly-winks final.
Does anybody know why, in the volleyball, one member of each team wears a different coloured shirt from his mates?
ReplyDeleteI was watching it today, trying to work it out just from the gameplay but couldn't fathom it.