>Jo, curling may be a lot of things, but exciting?
Well it is quite simple - check out the medals table - any of the sports which gave us a gold medal are
exciting all those which did not are
less exciting - how many gold medals did New Zealand collect so far
? Fully agree on the tea-tray - weird sport!
Anyway,
honest it may have been the late-night-jet-lagged-alcohol-inspired-stupor but it
was exciting!
You know we've just gone round inventing all these sports and international competitions over the years so that other countries can beat us. At least we managed to win once at one of the sports we invented (one day we'll win Wimbledon or the Rugby World Cup or The British Open ...drifts off muttering) - I'm going to make the most of it before we get thrashed in the Commonweath Games in Manchester in a couple of months, then we'll be back to watching the Kenyans zip past us as usual.
PS I'm gobsmacked! Won't trouble y'all with another post but I've just seen that Alain Baxter won our first
ever medal in an alpine skiing event - the bronze in the slalom - now ... weren't we supposed to have invented the sport of downhill skiing .. or was it just the package ski holiday ... whatever - it is quite amazing ...
http://www.olympics.com/x/f/frame.htm?u=http%3A//www.olympics.com/ats/as/as_history_origin.html&s=sloc
