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| Voiceless after another shouting extravaganza above the Olympic torch in the stadium, with ironRik and J-Fish |
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| Day 15 was all about one man |
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| Keeping the Mo-mentum up - starting from the back but coming through in style - Mo-bots all round! |
The last main attraction however was a return to the Olympic
Stadium on what we were hoping was a second Super Saturday. Don’t know how the
Balfours did it, but we’d scored the hottest tickets in town bar the opening
and closing ceremonies (and maybe the 100m final, but that doesn’t even take 10
seconds!)! There weren’t as many events this time round, but everyone was
waiting for the same thing – Mo time. If possible, the noise was even more deafening
this time round, and our boy got the tactics spot on to take his second gold,
what a legend! The 4x100m was almost a letdown, given TeamGB’s horrible
disqualification, but what a sight to see Usain run down the Americans in the
final leg and give the Jamaicans another track gold. Was a great finishing
touch to the night to see Usain and Mo give an impromptu interview – who said
that athletes were boring? All told, we’d seen all of the TeamGB gold medals in
the Olympic stadium so were very privileged – a shame we didn’t make it into
the Velodrome but can’t really complain!
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| Celebrating more TeamGB success with the Dawsons |
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| And they're off - never any doubt that Jamaica would dominate the 4x100m - a new world record to boot! |
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| Andy clapping the runners on, wishing he was out there with them. We didn't! |
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| Enjoying the marathon with the multitudes under Big Ben |
Headed to the marathon on the Sunday, and after joining in
the seething mass of sweaty English bodies (and that was just the spectators!) it was time for something more
civilised. Andy introduced us to a lovely little laneway, where it almost felt
we were back in Melbourne! A night in with Jumbo to watch the closing ceremony,
and our Olympic experience was well and truly complete – what were we going to
do with ourselves for the next couple of weeks? Before we worried about that
too much, we had time to reflect on the medal table. Destroyed our Bejing
result, dominating third position on the table – commiserations have to go to
the Aussies I’m afraid, this time we even smashed you on a pro rata basis…
