Priceless Olympic moments

It wouldn’t be the Olympics without its priceless moments of weirdness and wonder.

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18th August, 2012

You can never get it back. The time spent trying to get the Sky Olympics mosaic to work. The hours spent watching horses prance at a snail’s pace, as if slowly stomping to death an army of … well, snails. The time spent watching some of the world’s elite athletes sob. For a while we had more gold medals than the Australians, which was nice. And no event as big as the Olympics is without its priceless moments of weirdness and wonder. Who could fail to be moved by the seated splendour of our rowing team? This time no one threw up. Valerie Adams won silver in the shot put. Who knows, she ...

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