As Games Makers, we were invited to enter a draw to be one of the lucky 10,000 invited to watch the Olympic Victors Parade from a specially allocated vantage point on the Mall. Unusually for me, my name came up, as did five of my ten fellow Gamesmakers from my Eton Dorney team. So we arranged to meet up for a pre-parade drink at St James Park, before heading off to our allocated viewing area on the Mall. I was not quite sure what to expect but found the we were in standing area right next to the parade endpoint at the Victoria Monument. Luckily there were plenty of giant video screens around so that we could see the parade as it progressed towards us from its start at Monument.
It was good to see the athletes again for one final time slowing off their hoard of medals, and gratifying that so many of them took the trouble to scrawl a thank you message on their whiteboards to the purple crowd as they drove past.
The entertainment at the end was a bit naff, and predictably Boris and Cameron both tried to jump on the Olympic goodwill bandwagon in their respective speeches. Still, a fun day out and a fitting end to a great summer of sport.
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