Don't you silently judge me internet, I'm still counting this as my day for posting and there is nothing you can do about it.
I was going to tell you all about my day at the Olympics because as Alex was, I too was at the Olympics on Thursday. We were watching different things though. I had tickets to the evening athletics session. This means I was literally sat right there in the stadium as Usain Bolt did that things he does so well and swaggered home in the 200m final. It means that I also saw the Kenyan David Rudisha set the men's 800m world record time with the first run under 1 minute 41 seconds. On a less widely appreciated note, I also saw several triple jumpers fall over whilst attempting to do their hops, steps and jumps. One of them was quite badly hurt though, so that was not so good. Also I saw a false start in a 1500m race, not even a proper 1500m race, but the one in the men's Decathlon. This made me wonder, why over a race of that distance does an athlete need to react so quickly? It's not like they haven't got enough distance to make up the 0.01 seconds they lose by waiting for the gun to actually fire. I also saw roughly a billion different medal ceremonies for events won by Americans and I kept having to stand up for the Star Spangled Banner and I was stood in front of an American lady who belted out the words every time. By the end I basically knew it. Something about seeing by the dawn's early light and the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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