Just to confuse everyone the 2012 para-Olympic games in London will begin on Wednesday (29/8/12) in the middle of the working week. Although there will be fewer foreign and most events will take place in the Olympic park visitor numbers will be roughly the same. However many of the extra visitors will have physical disabilities so will take up extra space on rail platforms and require extra time getting on and off public transport. As a result many of them will choose to drive instead taking up extra space on the capital's road. So if you are planning on traveling during the games at least have a vague idea where you want to go and how you're going to get there. Mainly because that's just good advice for life.
Apart from the Jordanian athletes who have been withdrawn amid a sexual assault scandal the big talking point has been over the practice of 'boosting.' While I'm not going to explain the exact physiological processes on a teeny tiny keypad basically it involves athletes with spinal injuring a part of their body where they don't have feeling (such as breaking a toe) to trigger the bodies other responses to injuring such as increasing the amounted of oxygeninated blood going to the muscles (raised blood pressure) to increase physical performance. Of course if they injured a body part where they do have feeling the pain would trigger the release of adrenaline giving them an ever bigger boost. Therefore this is just a second round of the argument about Jessica Ennis' bespoke Stella McCartney and the limits of home advantage.
Oh and on a completely unrelated note I'm still taping my toe on a day to day (twinge by twinge) basis. For the life of me I can't remember how I broke it in the first place.
19:20 on 24/8/12
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