Menoptacled; Get Yer Glasses On

Okay folks, are you ready? Have you saved the schedule and started preparing your timetable?

Oh yeah, it's on. Somewhat curtailed, no doubt, but nonetheless we have wall to wall sport for the next two and a bit weeks. Technically it started on Wednesday, some sports needing the time to work through the lower groupings. Today is the official launch, though, and one wishes everyone involved all the very best, from volunteers and cleaners right through to the gold medallists and top-end organisers. 

I mean really... anyone who has organised anything beyond a family gathering - okay let's think weddings, they're a nightmare, right? - must surely understand the weight of responsibility for something as globally huge as the O's.  So easy to criticise, but put yourself in their boots.

It's going to be a challenge due to the time difference and having a distraction or two along the way. I do hope to see most of the cycling events, swimming and diving, equestrian, gymnastics, tennis, table tennis, rugby sevens, rowing, weightlifting... okay, most of it. I may have to rely on insomnia, playback viewing and/or highlights programs. 

NOW HEADS-UP EVERYONE - NEXT WEEK IS FFF TIME AGAIN! YES, THERE HAS TO BE A MINUTE OR TWO FOUND TO CREATE A POST BASED UPON AN IMAGE YOU HAVE FROM YOUR OWN FILES AND TELL US ALL ABOUT IT - FOR REAL OR FANTASY. GO ON - YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!!!