Olympic Games

[J.B.Wyllie]

Forget the  Olympic Games My Grand Daughter has her Standard grade results to day. Megan got 1's for Chemistry, Biology, French, and Graph Com. And A for Art. She did her English and Maths Last Year.

[Maggi Young]

That's an even more immediate and more heartfelt celebration in Dunblane, eh, Jean? Well done Megan!

[David Nicholson]

Yes, well done Megan, but what on earth is "Graph Com" (probably education speak!!)

[mark smyth]

Wasnt that horse just fabulous. What did it do - the name. How did they train it..  was it voice coomands? I want a horse! LOL

[J.B.Wyllie]

 Graph Com. is a Design course needed to do archecture not that she wants to do that but she is very Artistic.

[David Nicholson]

Hi Jean, many thanks for the clarification. Architects these days have to be good at "pointy bits" (The Shard and the new RBGE Alpine House) lets hope that was part of the course

[Tony Willis]

Jean well done to your grand daughter.

here is Chorley's golden post box

[Anthony Darby]

Ah, a proper post box. Ones in all those S-grades is a good spring-board for Highers, but what to choose other than English and Maths?

[J.B.Wyllie]

Higher selection is easy when you know what you want to do at Uni! and Megan does.

[Anthony Darby]

I wish James was that focussed! We have a careers expo at school tonight and he still has no idea what he wants to do. In 1990 I took a group of 6th year pupils to the University Marine Biological Station Millport for our annual CSYS (now Advanced Higher) Biology course. One pupil, Lynne Sneddon, was planning to do classics at university. The 5 days at Millport changed that and she went on to do marine biology at Liverpool and now with a PhD I last heard she was working on pain in fish at the Rosslyn.

Why are some of the interpretors at the Olympics translating in the third person? It is very confusing and I don't know whether the words refer to the speaker or their opponent!"

[Paul T]

Congratulations to Sir Chris Hoy, who got his 6th gold medal in cycling (not all at this olympics), which I think is a record for a GB olympian?  Definitely a great reason to get emotional at the medal ceremony.  Well done!!

And a japanese equestrian rider competing in the showjumping at these games is third generation..... his father competed in 3 olympics (60s and 70s I think they said) and his grandfather competed in the 50s.  All in showjumping apparently.  No pressure on the current guy's kids eh? 

Some really brilliant stuff coming out in these olympics, and some wonderful sportsmanship from defeated competitors too, which is brilliant.  And you can always see friends who compete for different countries, hugging and congratulating those who've won.  Definitely the best in sport when you see that.  Some epic rivalries between countries, but so often such great friendships between competitors.  Really good sports (no pun intended).

 

[ChrisB]

Your Australian woman did well winning the gold for the 100m hurdles last night Paul.  I was cheering for her.  She was up against some very stiff competition...

[David Nicholson]

Maybe it's not PC of me but I really can't come to terms with women's boxing. Having said that I can't consider two blokes attempting to knock nine shades out of each other as sport.

[Lesley Cox]

Maybe it's not PC of me but I really can't come to terms with women's boxing. Having said that I can't consider two blokes attempting to knock nine shades out of each other as sport.

I agree about women's boxing David. I have trouble too with women's football and especially with rugby, yet as sports they're becoming very popular. I do like though, the TV clip we saw last night in which it seems the Brits and the Aussies are pushing for men's synchonized swimming to be included as an Olympic sport, even so soon as Brazil.

[Paul T]

I too can't get my head around women's boxing.  I know equality and all that, but I thought that women had more sense than that. 

As to synchro swimming....... what the?  Such a wierd thing as a spectator sport.  I've always wondered whether those watching at the venue ever actually see much.    If it is regarded as a sport, then why not a men's version of it.  Will they wear pretty unitards as well, or will they all be in speedos like the water polo.    I would imagine that, like the womens, it could be very graceful, but going to be hard on young gents who take that up as their sport of choice.  Being a teenage boy is hard enough as it is.