COMPETITION CLOSED
In our household we have a system for watching televised sporting events which has taken us years to perfect.
My husband’s role is to try to watch as much sport as he can and in the following order of priority
1. Arsenal football matches
2. All other football matches
3. Any other sport
My role is to tolerate him watching Arsenal matches in an apparently saintly manner, whilst grumbling to myself about how football takes over our weekends. I notch the grumbling up a level or two and maybe add in some foot stamping when he deviates away from Arsenal into the ‘other football’ or the ‘any other sport’ categories.
But a couple of weeks ago, just as London 2012 got underway, a fairy sprinkled magic dust on me in my sleep and I have entered a parallel universe where I am glued to the telly watching athletics, hockey, cycling, diving, swimming and sailing to name but a few. Practically Perfect Dad usually watches with me but sometimes the hour is t00 unsociable and I stay down watching the boxing on my own.
I even booked our family Olmpic tickets to watch the GB men’s quarter final football against Korea in Cardiff last week.
THE PRIZES
I am so shocked about my temporary insight into being a sports fanatic that I am going to run an Olympic Giveaway.
To celebrate the power of the London 2012 Olympics we have up for grabs 2 sets of 3 ibooks
Amazing Olympic Stories 2 and
Amazing People of London.
These are books for iPad (iBooks).
While many of us are enjoying the Olympics, most know very little about the history of the Games and how it grew from an event in Olympia, Greece in 776 BC to become the global celebration that it is today.
A new range of multi-media textbooks for iPad from The Amazing People Club is tackling this and aims to help students understand the history of the Games. Three new interactive titles are launching in Apple’s iBookStore later this month that will introduce and celebrate some of the most amazing people through Olympic history.
These interactive textbooks feature amazing photos from Olympics past, as well as interactive quizzes and audio stories that offer unique insights on the Games. In addition to this, avatar software features throughout and enables students to come “face to face” with characters including Socrates in Ancient Greece talking about the first Olympic Games, Oscar Swahn, the oldest Olympian who competed in the Antwerp Games at the age of 72 and Jesse Owens who broke racial barriers and records when he took 4 gold medals at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936.
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I completely agree with you about the olympics. I volunteered as an ambassador and had the most amazing time. But when not showing visitors where to go I was also glued to the TV. It really was a brilliant games…and made me so proud that we could host such a fantastic event.