Saturday, February 20, 2010

Britain Wins a Gold in the Winter Olypmics!..

..I still hang my head in shame and colour up to the extent that I don't need to worry about winter heating whenever I think of that ski jumper...but at last there's something to be genuinely, if not proud of, reassured by.
Despite having no winter to speak of (although I gather this year was an exception) and a multiplicity of better things to do than stand around in the cold watching a couple of square jawed, android like and seemingly  utterly humourless men/women move around on snow and ice, "we" have bagged a gold in the winter olympics, and it's only a few days in!
So well done, Amy Williams, who managed to beat a load of the aforementioned nordic types and/or local Canadians in the alarmingly-named skeleton event, to bag Britain's first gold in the games in 30 years!
Actually I don't know why I'm coming out with this 'we' and 'us' stuff, when I'd normally disapprove of such misplaced jingoism (can jingoism ever be 'placed'? I don't know), given that I (and you) had absolutely nothing to do with her success or otherwise. Reminds me of a sketch I like..






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