All Quiet on the Western Front

Whoever coined the phrase "early to bed,early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise" was clearly a sadist. Nothing healthy about getting up at 4:50am. This is going to be a boring report as no new mountain vistas nor exciting news.

We had one test today and woke up some poor unsuspecting cross country skier at 7am. He wasn't grumpy about it (unlike me). Otherwise we hung around until 2pm then back to the hotel. A nap for me then watch the hockey game with a glass of scotch. My Norwegian roomie keeps sending me trash texts about the game
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I thought I'd share our lunch menu as at least that's interesting to some - the meals are very good there.

We did have some interesting visitors early in the afternoon as two men from the 2012 London Games Committee dropped in to see the operation . Too bad we were idle as that might have given them a better impression but at least they got to see the setup. The following picture shows two of my colleagues hard at work. The lady is a blood collection officer from Vancouver and the man is a UK doping control officer.They are sitting in one of our doping rooms.

This morning in the Vancouver Sun there was an editorial cartoon depicting athletes jumping for joy for gold and silver and a guy lying on a beach chair in the sun reading a book for bronze- in another 2 weeks that will be me.

Final 3-2 Canada in a shootout - way to go Sidney!

WARNING: there may not be a posting tomorrow if things continue to be as dull today....