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Nowt like the Olympics to remind you what a bunch of pampered, overpaid bellends footballers are. Some of the people picking up medals yesterday were just ordinary people who've grafted their tits off to get where they are for next to no reward along the way, relying if they're lucky on precarious funding.

 

Compare that to the footballers man. Just makes me hate them even more.

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Did anyone see the bloke who won the shooting gold being interviewed afterwards and he was saying how he'd not been able to find his mam and dad in the crowds? Just as he said it his dad appeared and he just shouted "DAD!!" and fell into his arms. It was lush :D

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Oh and Jessica Ennis starts the Heptathlon this morning. Her first event is at 10.05 and it's the 100m hurdles. I'm sure you boys will be watching ;)

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In more ways than one.

 

doper.... ? no, Indurain was the poster boy for EPO usage in the early 90's. nowadays these guys are screened for everything. I doubt Wiggins would do that given his history of leaving teams with dopers onboard. also he's got Dave Brailsford and a team of sports science nuts working their socks off and changing the way he rides and trains (he has pushed himself much harder over the last year but in different ways to previous years). its all about cadence and gearing and power usage and transmission. every pre race is analysed in minute detail and then they are breifed as to what they should do. its fascinating. to me at least!

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king's ransom - £150 per pop. A class seats though for Thursday morning - mainly heats and decathlon races. get to see the 4 by 400m heat, which i'm quite looking forward to, plus some long jump and pole vault action.

 

but tonight it's all about the weight lifting at the excel. the conversation i had with mrs gloom the morning after i stayed up till 2am securing the tickets went like this:

 

me: "great news love, i stayed up really late and managed to get tickets to the weight lifting!"

 

wife: "weight lifting? really? well at least we get to experience the atmopshere inside the Olympic park"

 

me: "erm, well, no actually. It's at the Excel centre. You know - that soulless, cavernous conference centre in Canning town."

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