At the risk of the "you're only interested when you are winning" accusation (unfairly levelled when Irish people complained after ERC (or whoever) destroyed the Heineken Cup) is anyone else out of love with the Olympics?
Sure I'll watch it for 20 minutes when there's nothing else on, but all this Ronnie Delaney "once an olympian, always an olympian" stuff tends to annoy me. People dedicating their lives to do one thing over and over and over and over in the pursuit of a few hundreds of a second - seems a bit daft to me. Or Ronnie's - you are now the supreme human being vibe - ....really??
OK I'll cheer Annalise, but beyond this week I dont think I'll be very interested in sail races. The boxing was the only thing that got the blood pumping (pardon the pun), but even on that we seem to have lost our way a little and the quality of the boxing is not the mae west either (that Joe Ward fight was a frustrating muck-fest). Throw in the huge downer of 'supplements man', and the murky 'tickets man', and all in all its been a bit dispiriting.
I did smile to myself when the golfers told "the olympic movement" (no less) where to go, they didnt like that I'd say....
So when I watch the mens 100M I'll be thinking of the parallels with an inner city garda drugs squad operation - some healthy men in pursuit of some heavily drugged men....
Sure I'll watch it for 20 minutes when there's nothing else on, but all this Ronnie Delaney "once an olympian, always an olympian" stuff tends to annoy me. People dedicating their lives to do one thing over and over and over and over in the pursuit of a few hundreds of a second - seems a bit daft to me. Or Ronnie's - you are now the supreme human being vibe - ....really??
OK I'll cheer Annalise, but beyond this week I dont think I'll be very interested in sail races. The boxing was the only thing that got the blood pumping (pardon the pun), but even on that we seem to have lost our way a little and the quality of the boxing is not the mae west either (that Joe Ward fight was a frustrating muck-fest). Throw in the huge downer of 'supplements man', and the murky 'tickets man', and all in all its been a bit dispiriting.
I did smile to myself when the golfers told "the olympic movement" (no less) where to go, they didnt like that I'd say....
So when I watch the mens 100M I'll be thinking of the parallels with an inner city garda drugs squad operation - some healthy men in pursuit of some heavily drugged men....