A Sporting Weekend!

It seems to be all happening in the world of sport! No sooner is Euro 2012 out of the way following England’s incredibly average performance than Wimbledon and the TdF get started, and the Olympics are just round the corner. So Andy Murray finally got the final of Wimbledon. Partly down to the fact that Nadal suffered some freak loss at the hands of a guy who I’ve already forgot about. On saying that he still had t beat the likes of Tsonga and Ferrer to get there. He met up with the amazing Roger Federer who was after his 7th crown. It started well with Murray forging a late break in the first to take the set. I’m thinking Murray is 25 and Federer is essentially quite old in tennis terms at 30 so as the match goes on he should have the fitness advantage. Hello – thinks I, there could something a foot here! Alas, it was not to be. I can’t remember if Federer took the second set before after it started to rain but the delay whilst the centre court roof was brought across seemed to be the tipping point and Murray never saw another set. Still, no need to cry in the courtside after match interview Andy!!! Who do you think you are – Paula Radcliffe ;-) The TdF is probably my favorite annual sporting event and this year’s edition is well and truly underway by now. In fact, it seems that this is one place where there is a realistic chance of a first British, nay English winner. Bradley Wiggins seems to have been around for ages, seemed to swap from track cycling to road ages ago. Finally he has come of age and with the loss of some of the big favorites such as Andy Schleck (injury) and Contador (banned for being a drug-taking cheat – apparently) he is one of the joint favorites with last year’s winner, the Australian Cadel Evans. It has gone very well so far, in the prologue, the mountains and today’s 42 km time trial was won by Bradley to allow him to extend his lead over Cadel to around 2 minutes. Fingers crossed for the rest of the race!! And finally, this weekend the Olympic torch came to our region. I was encouraged out of bed at 6 am on Sunday to head into Huntingdon to watch it. It was good fun once the race stopped and there was a great sense of community spirit, which is unusual and was lovely.