Some Olympics Morning !!

This olympics morning will take some beating to overcome. It was a chance morning though. Got up at 3:00 BST due to slight fever and breathing trouble. it's a bit frustrating when it happens at the start of the week. The breathing trouble was with the me for that last 15 years, so have got accustomed to such early wake up calls.

With the sleep gone and feeling a little hazy, tuned into olympics through BBC. First came the sensational victory of Rebecca Adlington in Womens 400 meter freestyle. No where in the top three after 350 meters, and trailing katie Hoff by quite a distance, she swam sensationally in the last 25 to take the gold. First female swimming gold for britain after 48 years !!.

Next came the 4*100 meters, 2nd in Phelp's quest for 8 golds. And what a race it turned out to be. australia leading on lap1, france taking the lead on 3, and with 25 meters to go, phelp's gold was all but gone with france leading the race. Then came the sensational surge from Jason Lezak making sure that phelps still hangs on to his dream of 8 golds !!. what a headline that could make...

I was already feeling as if it was a good morning to loose sleep, but it was nothing compared to what was in store for me.. With swimming finished and another hour to go for the morning, I clicked on the Shooting stream. The first image on my screen, well, Abhinav Bindra from India on 3rd position after 2 rounds in 10m Air Rifle finals. Honestly, it was the fist time I was watching a shooting competetion. Bindra was improving by the rounds and with one shot to go, he was level with the opponent from Finaland and just .4 ahead of the chinese opponent.

I was tensed, Will it be india's first ever individual gold?. It was !!.. a 10.8 on the last round to the cool Bindra who did it in style !!. What a morning..if I ever loose sleep, I would like it to be on mornings like this :)