Nicola Adams is demolishing the World Champion....go girl!!

Hello MrsB, from one MrsB to another. 

I'm still undecided about ladies boxing. My husband, Alfonso, thinks it is marvellous. The last time I saw women fight like this there was only going to be one winner and Wallis Simpson was brutal.

Wallis had my build.  How different life would have been if only me and Lady Furness hadn't fallen out back in 27. 

I wonder what boxing weight yourself and Wallis would be Lizzie. My husband, Alfonso, never met Wallis but guesses she would have been a featherweight.

 

Lady Furness, more bantamweight if my memory serves me correct. Just between us Lizzie, she was a very hard person to get along with.

She reminds me of Noelene Burke to be brutally honest. 

Afternoon peoples 

 

What have we won today?

Hiya Sprout!

 

I beat Lou Kelly at dominoes. 

Gold at Womens Boxing and Gold and Bronze dressage to music.

OH Yay! 

And there's still more to come!

I was just having a laugh at an American news extract! They are so annoyed at China beating them that they have done a table according to total medals! This system puts Russia in 3rd! Isn't the Olympic ideal great?

Good evening Garage Joe! Do you mean as in size of teams? For example a medal for every individual basketball player and swimming/athletics relay member. If so, that is incredibly ungracious, but not a surprise from our American friends.

I also think the Equine Olympians should have had some horse sized medals to wear around their majestic necks.

No! Normally the table is ordered by the amount of gold medals. However the Americans realised if they added gold, silver and bronze for all teams then they would be top!

And now it's 51.

Oh in that case, it is perfectly legitimate. One must also laud the nearly rans. I have much admiration for all the medallists.

I think it is done so that the yanks can feel good about themselves!

I stand in certainty that the Peoples' Republic would themselves employ the very same statistical trickery so horses for courses and all that.

David Rudisha Bravo 

Fantastic race And well done Andrew as well

Masai warriors indeed Denise.

 

As countless tourists can testify.

Yes, all runners crossing some sort of milestone.

Yes , they did EFFT .... One of those iconic races

Flippin eck! That 4x4 was quick 

Wasn't it just Sprout

What a lovely man

No warrior  

Velvet

Composed in 1954 to be read at the end of the Horse of the Year show & featured in 'The Essential Horse' exhibition).

 

 

Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,
Friendship without envy,
Or beauty without vanity?
Here, where grace is served with muscle
And strength by gentleness confined
He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.
There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
England's past has been borne on his back.
All our history is in his industry.
We are his heirs, he our inheritance.

She's off again   

 

Evening Olympians  

Just can't keep her down can you 

Lol... Hi there Duckster

Sprout! .... Lovely poem, by the way

Did they just say someone ran on a broken leg?  

 

Owwwwwww! Have you just seen that clip of the race last night? An American broke his leg while running and carried on as he didn't want to let his team mates down 

Snap Ducks! 

 

Argghhhh don't say "snap"  

I think all these athletes are inspirational