It began with London being eerily quiet - so quiet in fact, I was able to get a seat on the tube on the first morning. It appears that all the lawyers and bankers (i.e. 99% of London) decided to get out of London for all of August.
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The atmosphere was fantastic, with all the Brits trying their best to stay away from every other country (in order of priority: Americans, Australians, the French etc).
We had fantastic seats and saw Sally Pearson in her semi finals, along with the NZ shotput winner, later disqualified for drug use. We also saw the discus, 800m mens' semis, 1500m mens and womens' semis.
For Discus they had remote controlled cars that would return the discus to the thrower - little minis. When it got a bit overcast, the controllers turned their little headlights on. Adorably British.
The crowd was absolutely fantastic - the vast majority of the crowd were British obviously, but when no Brits were competing, our neighbours diligently cheered the Aussies on, possibly out of fear of M, who was slightly boisterous.
Its almost over, and the tube is back to its usual insantiy.
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