Olympics Update - Six Golds!!!, on Dispatch from the Razor's Edge

Okay, first things first again:

Britain Took Six Golds Today!!! On the water, on the track, and in the velodrome… they're calling it the greatest day in British sporting history.

One thing that's been impossible not to notice is the extent to which the athletes, in their post-event interviews, gawp at the support of the crowd. I've heard phrases such as, "It was like having a third person in the boat with us" and "I've never heard anything like it in my life" and "the crowd just kept me going." Team GB a team effort, then.

And aside from that, the British athletes just routinely seem like such completely lovely people. Check out Jessica Ennis, heptathalon champion, and Mo Farah, winner of the 10,000m, just to pick a couple. Those pages have video of the finishes at top – listen to the roar! – and post-event interviews if you scroll down on the left. (*) We happen to have some lovely out-of-country guests this week, which has reminded me that a lot of you are watching this on NBC rather than the BBC, which I presume is a rather different experience.

We went and had a cruise around the various points of Olympic interest in Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens (largely due to still not being able to get tix to the actual Olympic Park) and here are some photos.

That's actually just the Korean Embassy, on Gloucester Road – above a police van from Manchester!

Tent production of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe in Kensington Gardens

Liev Schrieber, Naomi Watts, and GB-bedecked brood buying tickets (Anna does all the celebrity spotting for us)

Team USA athlete in front of Kensington Palace? or just someone with merchandise?

Russia Park turned out to just be kind of a cheesy kiddy play area…

…though they at least did have a big screen for events

Africa Village turned out to be mainly just a bunch tourist promotion booths…

Royal Albert Hall and the Albert Memorial

…though they did have beer (I went and said hi to this other guy with divided loyalties)

Sochi Park turned out to be a cheesy Russia boosterism thingy - but you could at least buy that stylin' Team Russia gear here!

Sochi Park also provided a previously nonexistant view down Queen's Gate - 'positively Parisian' said Anna

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