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Brilliant Bradley does it for GB. Hope he can emulate his feat in the Olympics. You see lots of sports cyclists on the roads in Spain, but not too many in the UK. Perhaps that will all change now.

Felt so sorry for Adam Scott in The Open. Reminds me of the Frenchman Van de Velde a few years ago. As a golfer you just can't see why they didn't play lay up irons on the last couple of holes to preserve their leads. But they play under different pressures than hackers like me and my pals. I always buy the wrong golf balls.....mine are attracted to trees, bushes, sand, water, and white posts that mark the 'out of bounds' areas !!!

I've decided to turn my latest book "The Saturday Oath" into a trilogy, otherwise it will be about 1700 pages, and my publishers already have grey hairs from their association with me! I am renaming it too. The first book will be The Saturday Pledge - Rancliffe, the second will be The Saturday Pledge - Cambridge, and the third will be The Saturday Pledge - Government. Been planning them for a while, now comes the enjoyable bit, writing them.

I've just been out to the shops for my wife. There was a young woman there with shorts on so brief and so tight I could hardly breathe.....