Olympics

Congrats to the Aussies - what a great race. Now both the Brads have gold medals to wave at each other.:D

Hi All

You may remember me from my very occasional posts where I mentioned I was going to the Olympics whilst on my travels.

First of all, I have to say - what a fantastic experience. As soon as we get back to Australia we are going to start saving so that we can go to Beijing.

Secondly, we had many great experiences, but my best were -

1. Seeing Australia win two gold medals on the last night of the swimming - Grant Hackett in the 1500m and our 4 x 100m medley women's team.

2. Seeing Tyler win his gold in the Time Trial and getting to meet him afterwards, as well as meeting Bobby and getting both his and Tyler's autographs on the final time listing. He was such a nice guy and we were so happy for him.

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See the look on my husband's face to see the happiest boy in town after meeting Tyler!

3. Seeing the Oz Pursuit team break the world record in the first round. (Photos of this coming soon).

4. Seeing Katie push Sarah all the way for her gold in the women's pursuit.

We also have some photos of Nicole and Leontien from the Time Trial and Michael Rogers, Ullrich, Ekimov, Bobby and Tyler during the time trial.

There is also some other pics from various events here including the road race with Bettini about to win. We missed the women's road race unfortunately :(

We've also got a couple of reports on the front page here if you're interested.

Enjoy - we certainly did!

Victoria

P.S. We're now in Cairo adjusting to Egypt and drinking lots of tea. Thinking about cycling next week unless it gets a bit hotter.

Whilst at the airport putting our bikes in our boxes before our flight, two members of the Swiss team came along and we had a chat. We were stuffing our's into cardboard boxes and their bikes were all in the beautiful pro cases.

I only just realised that one of the girls was Karin Thuerig who won the bronze in the time trial. I asked if she'd had a good games and was happy and she said yes. I knew I should've got a photo, but we were under pressure from the check-in people to get our bikes sorted! Oh well, she said she's going to try for Beijing, so hopefully I'll see her there! :o

aussievic

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing. Sounds like it was a great adventure!:D

WOW !

what AG said :D