Olympics

Stephen and I are enjoying the unbiased Olympics coverage and news reporting. We were watching the synchronised diving final the other night and we got to see dives from the British team, the US team and the Chinese team...and that was about it! They did not show any of the dives from the Australian team - and they got the bronze medal!! They simply didn't exist as far as the coverage was concerned!

Watching Mark Phelps going for Olympic glory is fun though. He's something of a local boy as he comes from Baltimore. There have been numerous features on his training. On a typical day he swims laps for 5 hours, goes to the gym for a couple of hours and spends the rest of the time sleeping and eating - over 10,000 calories a day!

The USA women's gymnastic team came a cropper last night and lost out on gold to China. I had only seen the first rotation on the vault before I called it a night. They were moving onto the Uneven Bars as I hit the stairs. (Incidentally, when did they stop being Asymmetric Bars?) Apparently it all went horribly wrong when they were doing the beam routines and one American girl vaulted on and then immediately fell off. There is a lot of water cooler (and news broadcast) debate about the ages of the Chinese gymnasts as they would appear to be younger than the 16 years old you need to be to compete in that competition...

We might have found Stephen's ideal retirement job. We're getting to see a lot of women's beach volleyball (needless to say the US teams are good, so we get plenty coverage!) and we think that Stephen would be well suited to be the guy who brushes the sand off the girls butts when they've finished the match. I'm sure that I would in no way be jealous of him brushing sand off tall, leggy lovelies in tiny outfits!