Probably the best week of my life! Parties, friends, shopping, watching other sports and relaxing. Life couldn't get much better. The Olympic Village in the second week was one of the greatest experiences ever.
Athletes are an interesting breed. We look after our bodies as if they are a porcelain doll 99% of the time, however, that 1% when it is time to let the hair down, it most definitely is let all the way down! The second week of the Olympics, was that 1% of the last four years. I had the opportunity to meet so many other Australian athletes, which we don't normally get to do.
In the village, everybody is relaxed, happy and enjoying every moment of the day. It doesn't matter who came what, or where you are from, everybody will talk to everybody (especially at the McDonald's line in the early hours of the morning).
I had the opportunity to spectate some other sports including both the men's and women's basketball matches versus USA, the syncronised swimming duet finals, the 10m platmform men's diving qualifiers and watched endless hours of actual live closed-circuit television of every single event. Not like the Channel 7 'live'; that was about a 45 minute delay! It was awesome!
