 open door and stairs, backstage at the turning on of the Christmas lights December 11, 2007 An idea came to me today while listening to a Radio 4 phone-in about the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Basically, I think we're tipped to win a bronze medal for synchronized cat's craddle and come last in every other event. So here's the plan. With five years left before the torch is lit, Sir Seb Coe should get the electoral register, write every UK citizen's name on tiny ping-pong balls and place them in a big, clear plastic, spinning machine type thing. Rather like the one on the National Lottery. He then pulls balls out at random and proceeds to fill up the places for the whole of our Olympic squad. Simple. We, the tax-payer, then pay for the squad to be taken out of their nine to five jobs, or pay for any child care, or for any other expense which may arise. Then the new Olympic squad have five years to be intensively trained for their chosen event with no other commitments to distract them. Admittedly, we may end up with a water polo team that has three over sixties in it, but what fit pensioners they'd be. The mountain bike team might have a twenty-two stone woman as it's captain, but surely that'd add to the excitement of the down hill race. How can no one have thought about it before? I will be sending a brief outline of my plan to Gordon in the morning, tucked inside his Christmas card. I will let you know as soon as I have his reply. Holga CGFN + Fujifilm Superia 400 © James Arnold 2007 Comment (10) | Permalink |
