Us Brits love our sport!

If there's one thing us Brits love (sometimes more than our own families) it's our sport! Football is without doubt the nations favourite, and our love/hate relationship with the England team continues to delight, despair, frustrate and annoy, but the success of Lewis Hamilton has catapulted Formula 1 back into the limelight - "Fantastic!!!" as our very own Murray Walker would no doubt proclaim (and indeed did, I am led to believe).

With Formula 1 returning to it's natural habitat of the BBC this year and a World Cup coming up next summer, we are delighted to be working with a client on a project to benefit both of these sports and your ability to affordably attend the events (even with the credit crunch).

More will follow at a later date...

Be honest now...

... who had heard of Rebecca Adlington before? Come on, hands up. Not many I'll wager.

Two GOLD medals. One World Record. In Swimming? She's British, right? Wow. The first time in 100 years that a British swimmer has won two golds in an Olympics. The first time in nearly 50 years that a British woman has won a swimming gold at all.

Let's face it, nobody saw this coming, did they?. We knew we would do well in the Rowing, Sailing and the Cycling, but the Swimming?

I was going to try and write a nice article, but there's little point when this article from Claire Stocks at the BBC is so perfect.

These Games have been amazing. We've even got a medal in the Gymnastics (from a man)! Whatever next? Maybe the England football team can learn a thing or two about competing - no, forget that, forget the football, we won't be winning a World Cup anytime soon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/08/from_miss_nobody_to_greatest_b.html

Well done Becky, you should be getting enough recognition and money from now on to buy all the shoes you ever desire.

No James, you didn't. Don't worry.

"Today has been the most disappointing day of my life as I let everybody down," said a devastated Toseland. "This weekend was not about personal achievement because letting myself down comes second to letting the fans down."

James Toseland, crashing out of his first home MotoGP, did not let anyone down. He's doing a great job.

Perhaps it has to be said that he was *trying* to hard to please, rather than just riding his best. Lesson learnt me thinks. Next year...

(I've already brought the T-shirt so I'm a fan!)

Best of British

It's MotoGP time!

utopia 365 are attending MotoGP (at Donington) for qualifying this coming Saturday, as part of our motor racing season, which also includes the full 3 days of the Formula One British GP (go Lewis and/or Robert!)

There's lots to look forward to this year, with 5 British riders in all classes. We've got James Toseland in the MotoGP class, Eugene Laverty in the 250cc class, and 3 great riders in the 125cc class (Bradley Smith, Scott Redding and Danny Webb). Added to that another chance to see Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner, Colin Edwards et al and the very impressive (but slightly erratic and crazy) Jorge Lorenzo - it should be a damn good day.

Qualification predictions:

125cc = Bradley Smith
250cc = Marco Simoncelli
MotoGP = James Toseland