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Four years till 2012: get your kit on
This summer’s Olympics was pretty inspiring stuff. I’m not ashamed to admit that I welled up with pride at Britain’s unexpected success on a number of occasions.
How to cope with Olympics withdrawal
I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling like the holiday is over. The Olympics are a two-week window during which it seems everyone bar the nayiest of naysayers gets together and shares a genuinely thrilling, global experience.
Thanks to the ubiquity of the BBC’s olympic coverage, it was possible to live the Olympics as never [...]
Best Olympics moments so far
Shh, don’t tell - I’m keeping one ear on the Laoshan Velodrome as I write this. The chance to follow the Beijing Olympics from practically anywhere, at any time, has been in itself one the most thrilling aspects to the games - up there with Team GB’s dominance in the cycling.
Neither fish nor Phelps
Michael Phelps, or ‘freaky Phelps’, as some of the tabloids have so kindly named him, is everyone’s new favourite sporting hero.
Let the games begin
We’ve been looking forward to it for ages; the blood, the sweat, the tears. The thrills and excitement, the lows, the disappointments and the anticlimax after it’s all over again. Nope, I’m not talking about the Olympics – school’s nearly out for summer.
