The Olympics

Have been masterfully covered by the BBC for the past two weeks. We found the 'red button' on our remote. It offers six different choices of video for the Olympics. We've been able to watch the swimming events and Mr Phelps plethora of gold medals. Synchronised swimming, however, is a very horrific sport to watch, considering that the barbie doll grins and disembodied legs poking from the surface of the water send shivers down one's spine. Diving and the outdoor swimming, I believe 10 meters, made up for the creepy synchro.

The tennis finals were fun to watch, but Dinara Safina, the women's player we cheer for, had poor luck with the scheduling and played the gold medal match after finishing late the previous day. Rafa(el Nadal) won the gold medal match, but I only wish it had been against James Blake of the United States, who made it a very close match.

Other events of note were, of course, gymnastics. The British did quite well this year, and are hoping this carries over to 2012, when the games will be in London. I'm not certain we'll be here quite that long, but because I was a teenager for Atlanta 1996, it would be neat to see the games as an adult.