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Olympic Champs and too much sausage!

Posted by: Neil    Tags:      Posted date:  January 23, 2011

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Olympic Skeleton champion, Amy Williams & team mate Donna Creighton © Neil Shelby Long

It’s not every day you get to meet an Olympic Champion, or indeed two incredibly nice people, but Amy Willliams fits the Olympic champion category and both Amy and Donna Creighton fit the nice people category.  Both Nick and myself were lucky enough to bump into the girls at the Bob track in Winterberg and they were more than happy to chat with us. (Or chat with Neil and look at Nick according to Nick’s version of events???)  For me it was an honour to meet them and a privilege to be able to take their picture.

Poor John Farrow finished 21st on his run today, missing out on a second run by 500th of a second!  He was still smiling at the end though and even gave a cheesey thumbs up at the end of his run, as agreed by all of us over dinner last night.  Nice one John, you Wok!!

Is it excessive to eat two Bratwurst each in the space of half an hour?  Not according to Nick and I.  In our defence, it was bloomin’ freezing, and they were very tasty!

Today nobody wanted to talk to me, I couldn’t work out why, until Nick showed me this picture of myself:

Neil Shelby Long at Winterberg, Germany © Nick Williams

I was only keeping my big nose warm!

So tomorrow we drive back to the UK.

Oh, one last thing,   “It’s been emotional…”