24.08.08
Teh Limpics
I’m watching the Olympics closing ceremony at the mo. It’s all very pretty and that.
But the Beeb commentators are wittering just as much about London in 4 years and what the “legacy” of these games are.
How about “letting us see all these other sports”? You know stuff like archery, cycling, swimmiing, rowing and more.
I know that there are some competitions shown but they’re few and far between and you get bugger all of the backgrounds to the competitors or any detail about what is involved in the training and preparation, who are the favourites and why. Etc etc…
Give us some stuff about water polo, Greco-Roman wrestling and that. People will hate lots of it but the more people inspired to get active in any form of sport the better. And the BBC is the perfect vehicle for opening up the world of sport to us Brits. Show us new stuff, inspire people and some of it will be entertaining.
When I was a kid I wanted to do gymnastics. Couldn’t at my school as it was a “girl’s sport” (as stated by my PE teacher). So I had to spend my PE lessons standing in the cold whilst people played football (or rarely, rugby) around me. So I ended up this unhealthy, sport phobic lump you see today.
Now if I’d had some gymnastic training back then maybe I’d be fitter and more active now.
I’m not a great one for competition but I do like watching sports (some of them anyway).
Get to it Beeb – 4 years of getting us aware of all the weird and wonderful sports that are in the games should provide a cheap and entertaining thread of programmes. I’ll be watching.
[edit: Oh my word Boris Johnson is there and he may have to speak. Everyone else is immaculate, he's upper class shabby and has amazing legs (valgus deformity it looks like). Oh my word indeed he gets to wave a flag around and a fiver that he drops it.]