Standee wrote:
ah, apologies
amazing how nobody has mentioned the immense achievement of the womans pair winning gold, or the first men's team gymnastics medal in 100 years, where I to do so, no doubt I would be directed to "other sports" so that the usual suspects can maintain their ire at anything positive going on in the UK.
Don't know about anyone else, but I've always said I have no problem (at all!) with the sport. And I have tweeted my thoughts on the medals today etc.
It's the total crap surrounding it that is enough to do my head in.
Still, at least central London being a ghost town and businesses with a chronic lack of customers* will give Gideon his next excuse.
And in the meantime, we now have Boris caught on a zipwire over Victoria Park.
He'd make a lovely piñata.
* One of the owners at the small, independent cafe where I go for lunch every day, just off Euston Road, was just telling me that they've never had such little custom since they opened, years ago. Museums, galleries, restaurants, theatres, hotels, shops – all seeing far, far less custom. And we were told that the Games would be a boost to the economy, not to the recession.
