“The greatest show on Earth” came to an end with the London 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony on Sunday. After applying for Track Cycling events at the Olympics & Paralympic Games (and sadly not winning any tickets in the lottery) The Boy and I were lucky enough to be invited to the Velodrome for the penultimate Sunday morning session. The phrase has been used many times over for the games but it has to be said, it was extremely inspirational to watch the Paralympic Cyclists & be so close to the action too! We attended the Velodrome as guests of adidas for their ‘Front Line to Start Line‘ campaign. They were the official sportswear […]

With less than a week to go before the start of the Olympics, I must admit my excitement for the event has been building up. First there was the emotional BBC documentary on Victoria Pendleton earlier this week (which featured the Cycletta event which I interviewed her about last year), and now the Torch has finally made it to Newham – home of the events and where I’m from. As it was passing so close to home there was no way that I could miss it, so I headed out to Green Street Market this morning to have a look… I loved this old bus… yes, there are lots of […]

So, the Team GB Olympic Kit has been revealed to the world, in a launch at the Tower of London. The buzz surrounding the collaboration between sports brand adidas and designing powerhouse Stella McCartney has been immense… but it seems there have been more cries of  “off with ‘er head!” at the Tower, drowning out any joyful reactions to the kit…  As pictures of it appeared on the official Facebook page from 11am this morning, the comments that began to flood in were initially of utter disapproval of the design. Ranging from the rather blunt “Really bad” to “the overall design is just rubbish”, there was one recurring theme throughout the comments on there and other social […]