I don’t think anyone imagined or perhaps could have imagined the atmosphere that is around these games; from the very opening it has been just incredible. Last night I was in the stadium watching the athletics and there was such a buzz around the place right up until the end and that amazing win by David Weir in the 5000m. With all of this going on it is hard to keep the reins on our athletes, they are just raring to go. I can honestly say that I have never seen them more ready. There is a great atmosphere in the camp and a determination to go out there and do the business so watch out for us we are straining at the leash to go! You will not have missed that everyone is talking about rugby and can’t wait for the competition to start on Wednesday. I spoke with London Mayor Boris Johnson this week who is coming to the opening game and you will see him wearing his GBWR pin badge which I placed on his lapel on day one. Sir Clive Woodward will join us on Thursday for the French game and then on Friday we have about 50 guests including members of the International Rugby Board, the Rugby World Cup organisers, RFU and supporters joining us for the game with Japan which will be a very important one for us to win. I think we will see tremendous support for GB and the noise in the venue will be deafening. Today the team start their final training preparations which will end tomorrow with a session in the venue; classification is now complete with no problems and all of our chairs and equipment have passed inspection so well done to the staff team. We are looking forward to seeing as many of our Members and supporters as possible over the coming days – don’t forget your commemorative T Shirts which are available on line from Daniel.
So we are almost there just bring it on……
David Pond
