Adi Gaskell says... » Chris Hoy http://www.adigaskell.org/blog The views and musings of me, myself and I Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:53:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 The Olympic parade http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2008/10/16/the-olympic-parade/ http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2008/10/16/the-olympic-parade/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:48:08 +0000 adi http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=44 Super day in Trafalgar square today as the British Olympic team were paraded in front of the nation to congratulate them on their achievements.  It was lovely to see all the guys and girls in the flesh, and equally lovely to see the nation come out en masse to celebrate the successes of the summer.

I did attempt to take some photos with my phone, but sadly the event proved that my skills as a photographer are sorely lacking as the large majority turned out to be rather awful.  Which is all rather a shame as I had hoped to get some snaps of the cyclists and swimmers in particular.  Alas I’ll have to make do with these slightly better snaps from the BBC website and try to pretend they’re mine.

Becky Adlington with Mark Foster

Nicole Cooke, Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton

Nicole Cooke, Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton

Anyway, it was a fun morning, and to cap it all off Boris gave a typically raucous speech to leave the crowd in raptures as only he can.

Boris giving his speech

Boris giving his speech

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