Well, it's September which means it's officially Autumn (or Fall for any North American readers), which is depressing as we've not had a summer this year. It's just been one continual grey sky plonked above the UK this year and depositing rain of biblical proportions down upon us.
Never mind, I guess that just means that we've had lots of time to write or surf the Internet and relax indoors. However, in just four years time the Olympics will be coming to London and I reckon the organisers need to start thinking now about what indoor events can quickly be added. Snooker, pool, and darts seem like no-brainers and possibly squash too. How come badminton and tennis are in the Olympics but squash isn't? It seems rather arbitrary. I have a vision of the Olympics' founding fathers having a list of sports on a wall, being blindfolded, and then pointing blindly towards the sports that would be allowed entry!
Of course, the UK did amazingly well in the Chinese Olympics, shocking the world and annoying the Aussies who have claimed that we can only win in sports that involve sitting down! At a recent work away day, we were tasked with coming up with our own ideas for new events that the UK could do well at. My team came up with the Victorian Triathlon Relay, an event comprised of a doggy paddle swim (in the Thames), followed by a penny farthing cycle ride (over a bumpty BMX track) and then finally a pub crawl. We had Rebecca Adlington, Chris Hoy and Johnny Vegas on each respective leg and feel that we'd definitely beat the Aussies and all other nations at that event! Start the petition for it now! The only objection that was raised to our pitch was the possible effect on the NHS to have so many people swimming in the polluted Thames. This objection dissipated, however, as soon as I pointed out that only one of the swimmers would be British so the cost to the NHS would actually be very small!
I wonder what other weird and wonderful new sports can be created, so that we can start to rival the US and China?!
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