Day 13: Pole vaulting , mainly

This is the Decathlon sprint hurdles. The gold and silver medallists are the US guys in red - Trey Hardee on the left, Ashton Eaton on the right.

The 4x400 heats. Chaos. This is when Oscar Pistorius was waiting in vain for the baton because his mate had been knocked over. He's the one to the right of centre. The one without any legs.

These are the high jump girls chatting about who's qualified and if they need to do another round or can go home. Looks like they are in the back garden of a pub doesn't it?

In the afternoon they did all the Decathlon pole vaulting.. it lasted three and a half hours. No really, three and a half hours.

Luckily we'd bought the paper to read

See all those flags at the top in the previous picture?. They are all the Olympic flags -  in alphabetical order! Would you like to see all of them?  Go on, of course you would...