Something is definitely going right in sport for us at the moment - four golds and two silvers today giving us our best medal haul since 1908.Chris Hoy won his third gold in the cycling sprint with silver going to Jason Kenny, another all-GB final. Three golds is pretty good for anyone and he's the most successful Scottish athlete ever in the Olympics and a great role model. Victoria Pendleton won the gold in the women’s sprint, so that's a nice double for GB.
Christine Ohuruogu won the 400m gold getting our first track medal, so she now holds the Olympic, world and Commonwealth titles. It was great to see her come from behind, gradually overtaking everyone and winning. What a great come-back for her. Germaine Mason won silver in the high jump earlier in the day (but he really ought to tuck his shirt in).On the water, Paul Goodison won our third sailing gold medal when he won the Laser class.
There was an interesting discussion on the radio this morning about our medal haul and noting that most of them are in sports that require equipment of some sort - boats, cycles, horses. Anyone can run and anyone can swim, but buying equipment is expensive and that cuts down on the number of countries that can take part. There must be truth in there somewhere - as well as a few dozen other theories - but you can buy all the equipment in the world and still be rubbish. Athletes put in the hours practicing, athletes go through the pain and athletes win medals. I'm proud of ours.
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