So I have to say last night was a really exciting night. I walked down to the Melbourne Cricket Grounds all dressed in red and white. I found my seat - 6 rows up from the medal presentation site. I had a very nice Aussie family sitting beside me and members of the Scottish National Sport Council on my other side. Hammer was up first and Jim was second t
o throw after the Aussie. He threw 73m on his first throw good enough for first place after the first round. Unfortunately the Aussie threw 77m on his second attempt to take over first. Jim maintained second. It took until the 5th round for any changes when the South African threw better then Jim to take over second place. So it came down to the final throw for Jim where he threw 74 and a bit m - enough for the silver. It was so exciting! I was shaking. Ok, so that was a pretty exciting time, but lots of other good stuff happened. In the women's 800m for disabled athletes, Chantel Petit-Claire won gold, which meant that I finally got to hear O Canada and sing
(I know, poor people around me). Actually one of the ladies from Scotland sang too. She said O Canada is her favourite national anthem. So that was good. Angela white placed second in the women's 100m hurdles - very cool. The Kenyan's placed 1,2,3 in the steeple chase. It was good. All together we got to see M hammer, W 800m EAD, W Long Jump, W 5000m, W 800m (with Maria Mutola), M Pole Vault, M 3000m Steeple chase, M 4x100 heats, M 4x400 heats. I think that's it. So it was awesome. Really cool to get to be there. So in the middle of all this, the hammer medal ceremony was on. I took a ton of pictures (unfortunately no card reader at Canada House). So I will put those up soon. After he got the medal, I got a big hug. It was great. So proud of him. Anyways, he was wisked away to the media, and I watched the rest of the events for the evening. It was a great night. Jim - we are all so proud of you and can't wait for Beijing!
So I have to say last night was a really exciting night. I walked down to the Melbourne Cricket Grounds all dressed in red and white. I found my seat - 6 rows up from the medal presentation site. I had a very nice Aussie family sitting beside me and members of the Scottish National Sport Council on my other side. Hammer was up first and Jim was second t
o throw after the Aussie. He threw 73m on his first throw good enough for first place after the first round. Unfortunately the Aussie threw 77m on his second attempt to take over first. Jim maintained second. It took until the 5th round for any changes when the South African threw better then Jim to take over second place. So it came down to the final throw for Jim where he threw 74 and a bit m - enough for the silver. It was so exciting! I was shaking. Ok, so that was a pretty exciting time, but lots of other good stuff happened. In the women's 800m for disabled athletes, Chantel Petit-Claire won gold, which meant that I finally got to hear O Canada and sing 
(I know, poor people around me). Actually one of the ladies from Scotland sang too. She said O Canada is her favourite national anthem. So that was good. Angela white placed second in the women's 100m hurdles - very cool. The Kenyan's placed 1,2,3 in the steeple chase. It was good. All together we got to see M hammer, W 800m EAD, W Long Jump, W 5000m, W 800m (with Maria Mutola), M Pole Vault, M 3000m Steeple chase, M 4x100 heats, M 4x400 heats. I think that's it. So it was awesome. Really cool to get to be there. So in the middle of all this, the hammer medal ceremony was on. I took a ton of pictures (unfortunately no card reader at Canada House). So I will put those up soon. After he got the medal, I got a big hug. It was great. So proud of him. Anyways, he was wisked away to the media, and I watched the rest of the events for the evening. It was a great night. Jim - we are all so proud of you and can't wait for Beijing!
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