I am a decent tennis player, an OK squash player and reasonably handy on a badminton court. But it's ping-pong that's really my sport. When my parents divorced I was bought a ping-pong table, which I practised on endlessly, Forrest Gump-style, alone.
Where have these super women been hiding? From the heart-stopping determination and rock-hard abs of heptathlete Jessica Ennis, to the grit of box...
Women athletes have come a long way since the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, Greece. Then, no girls were allowed, but now they are competing in every sport, including boxing. All I can say is go girls.
On Friday night, as the London Olympic Stadium glittered and the crowd cheered and the MC boomed the names of the world's countries one by one, a teenage athlete from Niger seemed to encapsulate how these great games represent something far more important than winning or losing.
