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  • When Should Athletes Get The Vaccine?

    When Should Athletes Get The Vaccine?

    Note: This piece expands a little on a Twitter thread that I published earlier today. Today it was reported that the UAE Team Emirates cycling team had all received the Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine while they attended an Abu Dhabi winter training camp. The team counts among its members, the 22 year-old Tour de France…

  • The Olympics: Celebrating Success or Jingoism? – Stuck in Draft #2

    I wrote this over a year ago, and never quite got around to publishing it. Hence it now forms part of my Stuck in Draft series. And so another Olympics have concluded and from where I sit it has been a success. Let me clarify that a little. Team GB has undoubtedly been successful. But…

  • Discovery Buys The Olympics In Europe

    Well here’s something a little unexpected. Discovery has swooped in and bought exclusive Olympic rights across Europe for €1.3 billion for the years 2018-2024. In the UK, the BBC already had a deal in place that stretched out until the 2020 summer games in Tokyo, as does France TV. But the BBC would not have…

  • Olympics Day 5 – Wiggo

    OK. I didn’t get to watch anything live today. It was a busy work day – but more of that later tonight. However I did manage to catch Bradley Wiggins’ awesome time trial ride. Coming 10 days after his victory in the Tour de France, he’s clearly an outstanding athlete. Wonderful Bradley leading the charge…

  • Olympics Day 4 – Archery

    [Again, I’ve not had a chance to update my photos yet, so I’ll drop them in later] Archery is another wildcard event in that I was able to get a couple of £20 tickets, and thought it’d be fun to watch at Lord’s. All the Olympic venues have secure cycle parks, and since I had…

  • Olympics Day 3 – Swimming, The Orbit and Fencing

    [Note: This is a first draft. I’ll drop in some photos when I get a chance to process them] Today was a swimming day, and I had a 10am session. Having decided that security was very swift I didn’t get in too early today, but I still ended up with an hour to kill before…

  • Olympics Day 2 – Basketball

    Another early start for me, and my first visit to the Olympic Park for a couple of matches in the preliminary men’s basketball rounds. Since the session started at 9am, I took seriously the “get there two hours early” suggestion, and found myself in St Pancras International at about 7am. By 7.20am I was in…

  • Olympics Day 1 – Men’s Road Race

    Up early today for the first Olympic action with the Men’s Road Race departing from Central London at 10am. I got to Richmond Park an hour ahead of that and roughly twenty minutes’ later, the peleton arrived. They weren’t really racing at that point, and looked like a big colourful cycling club out for a…

  • Olympics – The Torch Relay

    Warning: There’s probably going to be a bit of Olympics coverage in this blog over the next couple of weeks! Well it was only around the corner, and I was coming back from a meeting anyway, so I had to join the massed ranks of office workers, shop workers, and tourists who came out to…