Closing Remarks

Olympian dreamers
A few topics got my attention this week, the Edinburgh festival, household re-cycling and
the Olympics. Given Andy Murray got his gold last Sunday and kept me up into the small
hours of Monday morning I shall advise on becoming an Olympian.
Has anyone been watching the Olympics? Haven’t we done well! Apart from winning
medals I have ben captivated by the sight of good-looking 14 stone British women hurling
themselves at Australians and bringing them down onto the turf, fast furious stuff in the
Rugby 7s. What about the women’s hockey team last night, hurling themselves in front of
100 mph pucks at head height to keep out the New Zealanders.
Thanks to lottery money, we have now got the facilities and coaches to take individuals with
natural talent and train them for several years to prepare them for Olympic glory.
Tonight’s advice is to how to become an Olympian yourself.
Some of the toughest events involve hept- pent.. or dec.. in the title followed by Athlon.
Innis Hill and Johnson Thomson did very well, but we are all excluded from heptathlons
because you need a double barrelled name to compete. Anyway Athlons of up to ten
events are pretty tricky so here is my advice for Olympic dreamers who find the regime
necessary to get into one of the regular Athlons too taxing: take up the indoor quadrathlon ;
the four separate disciplines that all need to be performed in the same event are sitting,
watching, eating and drinking. It can keep you up well into the night and you can be slightly
jet-lagged when the other events are half way across the world in Rio.
Final Toast – Quadrathlons, Rotary International and Rotarians worldwide.