OLYMPICS AGAIN

So last night, in the spirit of compromise, and more importantly in the spirit of not aggravating a 8 ¾ month pregnant Mrs C, I watched more Olympic “highlights”.

First up we had some guy shooting clay pigeons, then someone shooting targets with an air pistol, then someone swinging round and round some bars, followed by doing some fancy cartwheels across the floor, then someone on a horse, and then, finally, some actual sport in the form of hockey (that’s filed hockey for any Americans and Canadians who may be reading). You can tell it’s real sport because there are teams, a ball, half time, and a real risk of injury. In fact I think mixed hockey is possibly the most violent sport I have ever played. For some reason the women always go nuts and spend the entire game hacking at your ankles with the stick, and if that doesn’t stop you they then start hacking at your head. Very unpleasant. But it proves it’s a real sport, as was beautifully demonstrated last night by one female Korean player who took careful aim and smashed the ball into the side of her own captains head. The captain (not sure of her name but it’s a safe guess she’s probably Ms Park, unless she’s Ms Lee) immediately collapsed into a heap. To borrow a line from The 12th Man cricket parody, she dropped her “like a sack of shit”. Marvellous. Finally a bit of action. This was followed by boxing – again real sport, and then sadly we were back in the pool for synchronized nose picking.

When finally it was all over I was given control of the remoter again and surfed. What do I find on the very next channel. More bloody Olympics. Yesterday Simon was complaining that there was no Olympics coverage here but yesterday I couldn’t get away from it! He assures me it’s the same highlights just run at a slightly different time but I couldn’t tell.

Still at least we’ll have proper sport tonight when England go for the clean sweep of the West Indies at the Oval. Back to Test Match Special on the laptop while Mrs C is next door watching the Olympics. Excellent!