Golllld, I want gold

It was great to see Great Britain (just) get the gold at the coxless fours rowing. Ha! Eat that Canada!

We are still nowhere in the medals table despite the massive financial investment made in this country in sport, which is truly depressing. In our defence, we (I support GB in the Olympics, SA in rugby) are shite at swimming, which kills us in the first week’s medals table. You look at most other events; boxing, rowing, hockey etc – you can only compete for 1 gold medal at each Olympics. In swimming and to a lesser degree track events, athletes can go to one Olympic games and come away with 5 golds. Not fair.

In my hugely biased (and not to be taken too seriously because I’m clearly jealous) opinion, there are too many medals available and far too many medal ceremonies in swimming, perhaps they should make it a team event like gymnastics, where the team win gold overall but get points per race? But, the Olympics should recognise individual achievement and if an individual is better than everyone else at a number of events, then why shouldn’t that be recognised with multiple gold medals? Then why not change gymnastics to match?

I’m also worried about Denise Lewis. She has come back from both injury and childbirth where there was a battle between the baby and her phonemically strong abs, the baby won and ripped her abs – apparently it was more painful than the labour. That must be tough to come back from.

Looks like Darren Campbell is out - bummer