We started the day today with a visit to the Catacombs of Paris. This is an extensive network of tunnels that were created to mine the limestone to build Paris from the 12th century. When the reserves were depleted and the network became dangerous due to sinkholes appearing above, the city solved that problem and…

A quieter day today with just one Olympic event which was the water polo at La Defense Arena in a very modern part of Paris. A very cool light show preceded the matches. First game up was Italy v Canada in a 5-8th ranking game. It seems rather than get wedgies while playing, they just…

Today’s first event was the men’s 3m springboard diving qualification. 30 divers doing six dives each. These were cheap last minute restricted view seats so we couldn’t see the final entry into the water for 2 of the 3 diving boards, due to a camera position, but you could see everything above that so it…