Bloody daft dishing out knighthoods to these guys before their sporting careers are over. Better to wait and see what they do with themselves afterwards, putting something back into the sport that served them well, or charities, in my humble opinion.
Cracking match in the tennis - Murray being made to work hard for his medal, and a lot of Argies in the crowd, so like a home match for del Potro
If you divide the number of countries that make up GB with the medal tally, Aussie is streets ahead, just saying.
Or we could include all countries that loyally still have a mini union jack on their flags and have one big happy family team GB
If you take into consideration the fact that every Aussie taking part is an English convict,you'd still be medal less !
Del Potro looks out on his feet,but is summoning up every last bit of reserve he has. Cracking effort,but you still feel that Murray will find a way to win,just like he nearly always does !
Murray 2-1 up now, and starting to turn the screw on del Potro, who looks knackered! Didn't realise they played 5 sets in the final...
At last. Great match in terms of competition. And del Potro is the spit of a Papillon era Steve McQueen. After he's been in solitary for 5 years.
****ing awesome from Murray,he's gotta be one of the most tenacious sportsmen Britain's ever produced. Truly outstanding,and a word for Del Potro who gave absolutely everything.Two great sportsmen who gave everything for their countries,this is what sport and the Olympic dream is all about !
Hard to say that tennis doesn't belong in the Olympics when you see a final like that and the emotion shown by both finalists,
