No… No… and No again… I am not going to write about the absolutely crazy depiction of a hypnotist and NLP trained individual on last nights BBC1 programme ‘New Tricks’ - lots of my peers thought it was harmful, I just thought it was idiculous nd verging on hilarious… Instead, I am going for gold.
Yes indeed, I am focusing on the Olympics.
Yesterday our 14 year old starlet in the diving arena, Tom Daly, who is from the south coast near me, came last in the diving pairs 10m dive. His partner blamed him. They were not synchronised enough, they had a bad day and heck, they can be forgiven.
The lad is 14 years old. He goes in his single event soon with the weight of expectation and I really feel for him… We have so few medal chances that the pressure is piled on to these youngsters!
By all accounts, it is not nearly as much as the Chinese athletes who are having all kinds of remedies given to them to stop the pressure exploding… (more…)