Is anyone watching the Olympics?

[Minty]

Did anyone else see Stephen Kiprotich's audacious win of the marathon? The boy played a blinder!

Sitting in third, started drifting behind until he was ten seconds behind the two Kenyans, slowly began to catch up, and once at the last blind bend of the track in the final lap beasted it round and left the two of them floundering.

Right up until that point I was convinced it was going to be a straight battle right to the tape between the other Kiprotich and Kirui (Kenya's Kiportich was a minute ahead of the rest of the field for a large chunk of the marathon). The Ugandan finished 26 seconds ahead of Kirui at the end of it - & funny enough trains in Kenya.

The American Mebrahtom Keflezighi was also a legend. The two better runners from the US team pulled out when it looked like they'd no chance of winning with supposed injuries like big girls (like Andy Murray's "sore leg" that always appears whenever he's about to lose at tennis!) when Kenya's Kiprotich was miles in front & both were stuck in a pile with Kirui, Kiprotich, the two Ethiopian guys, the Eritrean and the Brazilian. Kef stayed on despite being literally miles behind, and in the last seven minutes as everyone in front began to tire in the heat he sneaked past the lot of them to finish in fourth out of nowhere (the Japanese guy looked like he was going to kill him at the tape!).

Never thought I'd say this, but I am really going to miss the Olympics.