This Sporting Life

The discovery over the weekend that the Gcercuit will have a couple of 'near miss' encounters with the Tour de France has lead DD to give thought to which other major sporting events of the summer will have to do without us. The decisive stage may well climax as we streak towards Paris from Lyon by TGV. We leave Paris (for the first time) the night before the Champs Elysees finish. Team pack your mankinis just in case.



  Tennis    One GCERCer has already stated that he signed up basically as an excuse not to have to watch this rubbish. Our launch day coincides with the Ladies Final at Wmbldn and we will be en route from Copenhagen to Gothenberg while the Men fight it out on Sunday. I'm not sure what the Swedish is for 'Jock loser' but we will probably find out by the end of the day.

As a low rent operation we couldn't afford the famous tennis poster so we nicked this one off a Cardiff City fansite. Looks like another of Mick's girlfriends.

Golf    In a masterpiece of scheduling the British Open at Muirfield will finish on the same day as Le Tour - Sunday 21st July. DD is with Mark Twain on this one.

Formula 1  - I was a bit reluctant to  bring this into a sporting post but you can get odds at William Hill's so I suppose it must count. There should be time in Copenhagen to see the Parade lap of the German Grand Prix before we board our train out of Denmark on Sunday 7th July.

No there won't. I forgot about the hour's time difference.


Football I jest not. The Women's 2013 European Championships will be taking place in Sweden, kicking off on the day that we leave Stockholm.

Athletics  The 2013 World Championships for Paralympians takes place in Lyon starting on 20th July. Guess where we are leaving that day.

 
Cricket   Now you are talking. The Ashes series kicks off with the First Test at Trent Bridge taking to the field as we are between Stockholm and Copenhagen. If it goes the full course we should be able to watch the closing overs in Skopje but do remember that we traditionally gift the first match to the Aussies.

For us the 2nd (Lord's) test will  begin in Venice and finish in Lisbon, having  negotiated the major logjam in Lyon en route.

LATE ADDITION :  I just had to post this photo of stand in Aussie cricket captain George  Bailey somewhere






 Stay tuned to DD even if you can't abide sport. Our next post will dish the dirt big time on GCERCer Darren F.  Book your copy now!