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Justin Gaitland is da man. Really. I mean, I would have been happy whoever won, but he seemed so happy winning. He must have shook every hand in the stadium, bless him. And his training partner was also very happy. I want the partner to win the 200 metres if Darren Campbell can't. Or Frankie Fredericks.

I want to know how come the US networks didn't snap up Michael Johnson to work for them, because he's so good on BBC.

Well done the Swedes.

When I say Urzika should have won the gold I mean it in a sentimental way.

When I say the US girl that came third in the asymmetrical bars should have won it I actually mean it. Her programme had content, not just a few flash and horribly difficult moves.

The rings competition, all three routines I saw, looked fantastic. Colin seemed to think the Greek guy shouldn't have won. Colin is an idiot. He also has gross objections to the marking system.


Other than that I think that certain runners should have remembered what happened to Phidippides (spelling wrong, seriously wrong).

Brendan Foster gets huge brownie points for his commentary today. Steve Cram was saying how much Paula Radcliffe had prepared and Foster said that so had the other athletes. He also said he hoped that she wouldn't try to run the 10,000. He is a wise man.

The commentators, Barry Davies and occasionally the swimming ones apart, have been good all round. Gary Herbet doing the rowing has been extra specially fun. For instance, yesterday as the coxless four raced Canada to the finish - "It's three feet, two feet, one feet. Great Britain win by two centimetres."

Classic!

That's two unforgettable and slightly silly sporting memories he's given the country.

He also got me thinking about memorable images and how they can be quite resonant in one place and completely unnoticed in another. For instance, Herbert blubbing on the podium is one of the images of Barcelona here in the UK, whereas elsewhere I doubt anyone even remembers the coxed pair.