Last Night and This Morning

Back to the pool yesterday evening for the finals, where Ben was presented with his two Gold Medals and good old Team GB pounded out the National Anthem (out of time and off key, but hey, who cares).  There were a few delays between Finals and presentations and a lot of time spent taking down and putting up the 25m flags (No one seemed to know why they were doing it but the theory seems to be that this is what happened at the Olympics -so that's what we will do here???) - anyway this meant a delay in getting to our usual bar therefore only managed a quick two rounds before heading off for dinner.  Headed off to bed just after 9pm - its very exhausting being a spectator!!!!! 

And onto today's events........  Some fabulous pb times were obtained by our swimmers today - great celebrations amongst the Team, one of our finest achievements this morning was the girl's 25m medlay relay which pipped the Aussies to come in First and win a Gold.   Caroline Faithfull swum a storming last leg, and swam brilliantly in her 50 Freestyle event earlier in the day thus reducing her Dad to tears for the third time in this competition!  

Ben came first in his heat in the 50 fly which we think mean's that he will get to swim in a Final tonight as there are another 2 mosaic swimmers in that event, but the result sheets were not up so we need to wait this evening to find out.   Joanne then knocked nearly 2 seconds of her 50 freestyle coming 3rd in her heat  followed by a "not so good" 100 breaststroke (one of her supposedly stronger events!).   Ben  then  swam another pb in his 100m Backstroke with a 1.26.78 finishing 5th in the top heat but again there was another Mosaic swimmer in this event so another  possible Finals race tonight.