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Tony's perfect timing

  • Sarah
  • 25 Mar 06, 10:29 AM

It was nice to see the MCG folk had rolled out the red carpet for me in the media area. Oh, it turns out it was for Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie instead. Mr & Mrs Blair showed perfect timing, taking their seats just as 'Land Of Hope and Glory' was er blaring out as Phillips Idowu received his triple jump gold. Phillips has apparently been called for an audience with the PM. Well, at least he can prove he is patriotic but he'll have to poke out his tongue at Tony to do it. Phillips showed me his new tongue piercings - two circular England flags.

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  • 1.
  • At 02:58 PM on 26 Mar 2006,
  • Guto wrote:

The Aussie was standing in her lane, just as she was supposed to.

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  • At 11:15 AM on 25 Mar 2006,
  • Steve wrote:

Reference the DSQ of our 4x400 relay team, it seems to me when the overhead was shown that the Australian athlete actually invited ours to go in front of her by leaving a gap and pointing with her left arm for her to go around her left side. Is this the athletic equivalent of a proffesional foul?

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