Olympic Trivia PS

Put this in a comment and decided to make it a post. The New York Times has a brilliant graphic which interactively shows the medal tallies for nations from 1896 to the present.

Also, where should the Olympics have been held in 1908, 1912, 1940 and 1944?

See the comment for the answer

Olympics

Have been picking and choosing my Olympic viewing, but it's been great stuff. Usually lots of heroic failures and a few unexpected valiant victories make up our medals tally. This year the confidence of the team has been fantastic.

What's been odd is that people have written about it as if it's surprising that the Olympics make good TV. Obviously it's better when we're winning, but where have you been? I think my earliest Olympic memory is watching with my mum when David Hemery won the 400m hurdles in Mexico (that's 1968). Also saw Montreal Olympics coverage whilst in the US in 1976 - the ad breaks were dominated by Chevrolet and Kodak. I can still remember the Chevy jingle, but wish I could forget it.

Winning

Just rubbed my eyes in disbelief as I saw Great Britain were 3rd in the Olympics medals table. This winning is becoming a bit of a habit. There are still some medal hopes to go, so it could get even better. Also noticed Australia were a little bit behind us, which must be causing large amounts of irritation down under.

Will success rub off on the England football team for their friendly tomorrow? I'm not that hopeful, but you never know. We certainly need a GB football team for 2012 - wouldn't seem right without one.

By the way, who would you pick as regular goalkeeper? I'd pick Robert Green (when fit)