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Found the road racing on BBC HD btw....

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A Khazak winning the gold? Wow

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Well with the exception of Mr McCartney - Hey Jude - oh really? ...............
Why oh why is he rolled out for every event, celebration and gathering?

As the opening strains started my ears started to bleed - ! I've done better renditions of it in the shower. No, didn't like.

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Just an observation, but this home advantage thing isn't really working for us, is it?

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First rule of GB in the Olympics: Never win a gold on Day One (same in Beijing, then we got going.......)

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Yeh, fair point. It's the same with the consistently dismal performances in the early stages of the World Cup I guess. It's a funny strategy, I sometimes wonder if it's intention or if we really just cannot perform until we are on the back foot.

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Got to say i enjoyed the road race yesterday and on a side note the UK looked fantastic around the downs .

Sun shining , people out on the route . Not a better place on the planet on a day like that .

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Sadly I missed it, but where the team really frustrated by the others? I would have expected us to be more gracious in defeat rather than saying 'everyone was against us'... no shit, that's the point of competition, no?

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The other teams didn't help but when the second group broke it was always going to be difficult .

Maybe a victim of their own success but still a fascinating race . Wouldn't have minded been sat outside one of those boozers yesterday afternoon in the sunshine watching the race and getting slowly pissed .

The perfect afternoon !

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Agreed. I was in Riyadh.

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Oh god I miss that sort of shit.

I miss waking up to a text from a mate; "The Alex. Midday. Sunshine. Leo Sayer."

Probably one of the greatest messages ever.

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They must have upgraded the bells at St.Mary's if they can be heard in Southampton.

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Leo Slayer is cockney rhyming slang. A cockney is someone born within ear shot of the bells of St Mary-le-bow church, London.

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Sorry I'm with you now. St. Mary's also happens to be the shit bit of Southampton where they dumped the new stadium.

It's still called a Leo Sayer. Regardless of where you are from.