- 21 Jul 08, 02:06 PM
Ahoy bloggers! I thought it was about time I introduced myself to the online community before I head to .
I'll be keeping 5live listeners up to date on events from the throughout the Games. I was looking forward to it until one of the team messaged me on Facebook to tell me that "the weather sucks and you spend your whole time being very sweaty".
The weather will be the main challenge for them with light winds, strong tides and dense fog. Not forgetting of course the . The same Facebook sailor likened it to pulling a seventies green afro off a rudder! He has a wicked sense of humour.
are Britain's most successful, and the believes that it is fielding its strongest team ever with nine medal hopes in .
I keep in touch with some of the guys as much as I can. reckons Qingdao looks like , while Stevie Morrison says there's a great pub in the middle of town with a live band that sing cheesy songs all night.
That's the gold medal celebration night organised then!
Morrison likes his music, but he and Ben Rhodes were forced to change the name of their 49er after getting into trouble with bosses for naming it after a track by The Kooks. Their new one is called .
I bumped into Ben at the . He was a guest of Lewis Hamilton, after - perhaps that's where he learned to drive so well in the wet at Silverstone!
Ainslie was very laid back in the McLaren VIP area. This will be his fourth Olympic Games, and he's only 31. and one silver already, and says his biggest pressure comes from within. "It's what I want to achieve".
Beijing could cement him as one of Britain's greatest ever Olympians. It's time do to business.
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