A very sporting day today. I get up early (11am) and watch
yesterday’s coverage of the Tour de France as live, enjoying a dominate
performance from Chris Froome as he took the lead in the race. Then when that’s
over I decide it’s too hot and hay fevery to cut the lawn and instead setting
down to watch ‘our’ Andy win Wimbledon. Cracking stuff.
Personally I think this has been one of the best Wimbledons
ever, even before his win. A lot of this is down to the BBC’s website which
enables you to watch whatever match you like, even if that is four Japanese woman
playing doubles out on Court 14. Their website coverage gets better every year
and is much needed because BBC 1, BBC 2 and Radio 5 yet again featured the
tennis equivalent of Manchester United v Wigan throughout the first week. E.g.
one of the main seeds thrashing the pants off some sacrificial lower ranked
player. Boring. Ok, they got lucky twice, with unexpected defeats for Rog and
Rafa but other than that I can understand why people resent the rescheduling of
the One Show.
What I want to see is all the Brits getting thrashed on days one and two by, well,
anybody and some of the closer mid-ranking games. I'm also rather partial to doubles and now I
can indulge myself thoroughly.
After Andy's win we returned to the scene of yesterday’s ‘excitement’,
the National Water Sports Centre, to catch some of the Outlaw Triathlon. Which we’ve
actually been following online all day. Despite starting at 6am, it’s only now
that people are starting to finish.
On the way we check out the runners heading (slowly) through
the Embankment before carrying onto the finish. I’m full of admiration for all
of them and would love a go at experiencing the same levels of pain at some
point in the future. Even L appears to be going a bit glassy eyed at the
thought or perhaps that's just her hay fever.
After a few hours we head back home, although still we keep
an eye on the online updates. Everybody needs to be home by 11pm in order to
call themselves an ‘Outlaw’. Now I can sit down and watch today’s Tour de
France coverage.
(Sunday 7th July)
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