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North American Throwdown

Manchester, England, UK

We were told by one of our British friends that Great Britain passed the USA in the medal count…

…if you take into account medals per capita, that is.  Apparently, that’s a thing here.

 

Wandering around Olympic London is fun and all:

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But like we said in the last article: WE GOT TICKETS TO A GAME BABY!!!!

It was supposed to be a women’s soccer battle royal, Boston Tea Party style, with Team USA facing the host nation: Team GB.  However fate, and Canada, had other plans…

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London 2012 Olympics

 London, England, UK

And now a brief interlude from our normally scheduled blogging.

Greg’s sister and her husband live in London and we had the good fortune to be able to join them for their 5th wedding anniversary.

It should be noted that we did not come to London for the games.

But come on, it’s right here.  Right freaking here.   Breathing down our necks…

How many times in life will we just happen to stumble across an Olympic games in progress?

And, the questions we were more interested in:

  • What don’t the TV cameras show us?
  • How do the locals experience the games?

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