Phillips Idowu's Injury.

Despite the fact that the Olympics formally open tomorrow (27/7/12) most of Team GB's athletics squad are not even in the country let alone the Olympic village. Instead they're at a training camp in Portugal. Well all of them are except triple jumper Phillips Idowu who has stayed in the UK for treatment of a hip injury. As it's relatively well know that Idowu has a difficult relationship with the head of the Team GB athletics squad Charles von Commnenee this has led to much speculation over the legitimacy of Idowu's injury. In response Team GB have written to Idowu requesting his medical records and we are all awaiting the records to be sent before a decision can be made about whether or not Idowu will be able to take part in the games.

Obviously this is all a reference to me but the question is which of my injuries are we talking about? We could be talking about my foot injury which is being slow to heal due to my refusal the let it disrupt my training regime. While it's not the great fun to discuss arthritis related condition known as gout it certainly fits into that category of non-specific pain that is really big business in health care. Seriously doctors across the developed world spend large parts of their working lives saying things like; "Can you describe the pain?" before saying things like; "I'm sorry there's nothing I can do but have you tried one of the thousands of expensive pills and potions that are on the market?"

Alternatively it could be a reference to the long term mental health problems that have got me signed off sick. You see after Britain was awarded the 2012 Olympics and they set the Bristol Abuse Case (BAC) in motion back in 2006 the idea was that I would teach them everything I knew about causes and possible treatment for mental health problems. This would allow Britain to use the 2012 Olympics as an opportunity to unveil everything they'd been taught and present themselves as a world leader on the subject. Even though that hasn't happened Britain has promised so many people over say many years that there would be a big announcement they're pushing ahead with a sort of presentation anyway. This includes the Channel4 season of programs on mental health and a Parliamentary report that was published on Monday (23/7/12) about the state of mental health provision within the UK. One of the big areas of research in mental health problems is neuroscience which the alleged Aurora shooter was studying with a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH). The US government/intelligence communities would have been well aware of Britain's plans and the NIH is sort of government/intelligence adjacent so the alleged Aurora shooter would have been in a position to hear the latest gossip. So while I think the conspiracy only existed in his head it might be worth bringing the issue up in questioning.


Also today (26/7/12) Britain's department of Business and Skills along with UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) have opened Lancaster House in central London as Britain's business embassy for the duration of the Olympics. Although the Prime Minister gave the opening speech the embassy will primarily be the responsibility of the Business Minister, Vince Cable. Yesterday a jogger and member of a local athletics club was killed by an overhead power cable in Newport Essex. While I think this was just a freak accident it's certainly not a good omen.

Speaking of freak accidents I should explain that Britain is currently going through the school summer holidays. This allows all school aged children to spend the next six weeks running around doing whatever you like. So every year we do naturally experience a number of incidents such as the boys who died whilst open water swimming in a river near Bristol on Tuesday (24/7/12) and the boy who died after falling into a water filled quarry yesterday (25/7/12.)




10:20 on 26/7/12.