Couldn’t get moving very fast in the morning after staying up so late to watch the women’s hockey game. The British paper, The Times, has a critical article about Canada’s Own the Podium programme, entitled “Well done, Canada, you Own the Odium” and saying the programme might just as well have been called “Up yours, America”. I have to agree that the name is very unsportsman-like, but the English press seem to have been unduly harsh about the Olympics.

I walked to Tate Modern braving strong wind gusts and a swaying Millenium Bridge. In Turbine Hall is Polish artist Miroslaw Balka’s giant grey steel structure with a vast dark chamber, which you walk into and it creates a sense of loss of vision, at least, until the group in front of me decided to take flash photos.