John should get a VIP ticket to 2012, don't you think?

Talking endlessly about the Olympics today, it being the first day tickets go on sale. Sally Gunnell, Olympic champ 400 metre hurldler joined me on todays programme, saying her boys are interested in BMX biking and boxing. Olympic rower Sarah Winckless joined in, saying she'd definitely try for tickets to Dorney Lake, and also the beach volleyball, which is going to be held at Horse Guards Parade! Me, I'll be trying for badminton, table tennis and tennis.

Meanwhile, I got a call from John from Reading, who attended the opening ceremony of the 1948 Olympics, held in Wembley. The ticket cost him ten and sixpence, which was the most he'd ever spent on anything! The 1948 Olympics were called the Austerity Games, because it was all done on a shoestring budget, as it was just at the end of the war. Star of those Games was a Dutch woman runner, called Fanny, who won four Gold medals and was nicknamed The Flying Housewife because she was so fast!