Hurrah !
Gold medals for the Brits at last 🙂 Awesome to see too. The Brit Girl pair of Helen Glover and Heather Stanning started us off with gold in the women’s pair (rowing 2000m), followed by Bradley Wiggins in the men’s cycling time trial.
I have mixed feelings about the Wiggins medals (he now has the most medals of any British Olympian), after watching the two he got in Beijing. (Controversial opinion coming!) He didn’t seem to be helping out his team mates at all in Beijing, in fact I got the impression that he held them back and nearly cost them the medals. But … you can’t deny him this one, time trial is all about one cyclist against the clock. It’s all his medal this time.
I’m back to two sports today – Cricket is on the telly (it gets priority there cos I can’t stream it), with the Olympic sport medley on the desktop. At the moment, I’m leaving it with the BBC1 choice, although as they’ve focused on the rowing this morning it’s aligned with what I’d have watched anyway.
Hoping for more golds later 🙂 I want to see a few more before I head back to work next week.
Anyway – cricket on the telly at the moment and it’s already bringing in the controversy. England have juggled their side a bit, going for a more aggressive fast bowling pack. To be honest, the bowler who’s been dropped was ineffectual in the first Test and the ground they’re playing at (Headingley) is historically a fast bowler’s paradise.
At least, that’s how it used to be – pitches change over time. It’s been looking fairly playable so far this morning, with England putting the South Africans in to bat and not having any success yet.
Crazies went to see Dark Knight Rises on Tuesday. Good film. Unusually for an action based movie, it covers quite a decent amount of time. But also unusually, there’s enough clues (ok, they are big Hit Over Head With It clues) to let the audience keep up. I’ll be buying it when it comes out on offer. I might even pay a higher price on blu-ray for it.
That’s a curious one. Blu-ray has a definite price premium to it, harking back to the early days of DVD. I think it is worth it, just from the improved sound. Visually however, there’s not much to tell between upscaled dvd and bluray, as modern dvd players get stuff out of the signal that might not have been there to start with.
Distracted again. I went into Sports Direct hoping to get a headband to a) absorb the sweat (ugh) and b) get my helmet tight again. What did I walk out of there with ? A new helmet. Ooops. Especially as I’m not sure I can use it in a game, as the “helmet completely on head” position has the lid obscuring my view almost to nose level.
So – still need a headband to push the front out enough so the back doesn’t tip the angle down. (It makes sense but you’d need to see the design and I’m not advertising which type !)
There’s my kit buying jinx striking again, at least I didn’t spend £150+ ish on a new bat that I won’t get any value out of. The helmet was only £15 on offer (and it is shiny and my old one is technically broken).