I may be the equivalent of a Manchester United fan living in Buenos Aires*, but that was an AWESOME result for Norway in the women's 30km cross-country race in Sochi today, taking first, second, and third place. Marit Bjørgen won in 1 hr, 11 min, and 5 seconds, taking her to ten olympic medals, six of them gold. I shall be attempting to cover the ( Read more... )

(1) Golden retriever very, very young puppy cam. Mother Narnia and her eight pups or, as we should call them in solidarity with Norway, whelps.

(2) I am now older than all the English cricket team. I am older than almost anyone in professional sport (though not, of course, Ryan Giggs*). But I am not older than Noriaki Kasai, who is a ski jumper ( Read more... )

After a fortnight in the Bosom of my Family, I am now back in the land of no dishwasher. Once again, Christmas seems to have gone incredibly quickly. There were many presents, much food and drink, and entertaining a cheery baby is an excellent excuse for sitting on the sofa not doing much ("I would lay the table rather than watch Muppets Christmas ( Read more... )

Father!Nineveh_uk: I can't watch men's gymnastics: it's the rings. A sport that lets you survive being crucified is just wrong.

I take his point.

On other random gymnastics thoughts:

- that Kristian Thomas is a big lad for this sort of thing.

- there was a woman on the German team yesterday who is older than I am. I am deeply impressed. Mind ( Read more... )

Apparently the Olympic torch for 2012 has won the UK Design of the Year award. I can't honestly see what is that exciting about it. Apparently it "features 8,000 small cut-out circles, representing the 8,000 inspirational people who will carry it on its journey around the UK". That's nonsense for a start. One of those 8000 people is my brother-in- ( Read more... )