http://2008olympicsupdates.com 2008 Olympics Updates Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:26:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having competed at the last five Paralympic Games it will be a new experience for me to be a spectator in Beijing. However, as a commentator I will still be close to the action and be able to speak to the team each day. Trying to pick out ones to ... http://2008olympicsupdates.com/strategy-behind-british-swimming-success/ Relaxed and ready is the mood in the ParalympicsGB camp on Thursday in the athletes' village. With the start of the Beijing Paralympics just a couple of days away, final preparations are being made - and there is an air of confidence around the team. The likes of four-time Paralympian Jody Cundy ... http://2008olympicsupdates.com/paralympians-get-used-to-life-in-the-village/ I spoke out against GB head coach Peter Suk immediately after my quarter-final defeat at the Olympic Games and then retracted it on reflection in my blog later that day. Since then, I've had more time to reflect and I stand by what I originally said and if a lot of ... http://2008olympicsupdates.com/archery-concerns-need-addressing/ Our accreditation may have changed to blue, the army of volunteers is significantly smaller and we seem to be the only TV crew in town BUT the buzz around the stables is the same as it was at the Olympics. Here the best para dressage riders in the world have ... http://2008olympicsupdates.com/equestrian-team-ready-to-rock/ What an incredible Olympics for our modern pentathlon team. Heather Fell and I were excited from the moment we set foot in the athletes' village to the moment we left - and that moment came far too soon. All five of our pentathlon events took place on one day, the last ... http://2008olympicsupdates.com/being-part-of-it-all-in-beijing/ It's been a frantic seven days since I left the (relative) calm shores of the UK, flying out of Heathrow on the way to the Beijing Paralympics. First stop: Hong Kong Here, some of the British team were fine-tuning their preparations. Over the next few days, my plan was to film interviews ... http://2008olympicsupdates.com/from-london-to-beijing-in-seven-great-days/ We are finally in Beijing after acclimatising in Macau and we are on to the serious bit - the Games themselves. My flight from London to Hong Kong was great. I upgraded to business class (or World Traveller Plus, as it is called now) and it was amazing. I felt like a ... http://2008olympicsupdates.com/upgrades-gambling-and-staying-cool-in-beijing/ Here in Beijing, there's no sign of Olympic fever abating. Chinese Television is still re-running highlights from the Games; crowds still gather around the perimeter of the Olympic Green to have their photos taken with a backdrop of the Bird's Nest Stadium and there seems to be an Olympic souvenir ... http://2008olympicsupdates.com/paralympic-fever/ Within 36 hours of the Olympic Games closing ceremony the flags in the city of Beijing were changed to Paralympic ones. The message that I have seen in Beijing is that things happen here fast. I came here a couple of years ago when the foundations of the ... http://2008olympicsupdates.com/china-switches-to-paralympic-mode/ Andy Hodge has a neat way of summing his next mission up. "It's all about building on this," he says pointing to his pocket. In it is his first Olympic gold medal. Hodge isn't just talking about a plan to aim to repeat the feats of the Great Britain coxless four ... http://2008olympicsupdates.com/what-now-for-olympic-rowers/