The Stamps! How could I have overlooked the Stamps!

You have to give credit to the British Postal Service
The first two Team GB Golds were nailed sometime around midday Wednesday
and here it is at eight o'clock on Thursday morning and the woman reading the news is telling us that if we have the time and inclination we can wander down to any British Post Office when they open at nine and be able to purchase Olympic stamps issued to celebrate the two victories.
The stamps contain head shots of the victors.
Talk about moving into overdrive to capitalise on the moment.
Well done the Post Office!

Some great quotes in today's paper.
The babbling announcer Matt Baker, in an attempt to forge the victorious moment on the national consciousness, equipped with nothing more than the molten heat of his powerful rhetoric:
QUOTE We wondered, he said, if the Olympics would be like a London bus. Suddenly you get one and two come along at once UNQUOTE

Down at Eton Dorney, Garry Herbert (a former cox) and Dan Topolski ( a former coach) were lucky commentators going slightly hysterical at the whiff of victory.
QUOTE Clear water! Record books!  Cried Garry. 1200 metres to glory! shouted Dan. Two worthy, worthy winners. We stand up and we salute you! screamed Garry . This is tears in the eyes stuff, sobbed Dan .UNQUOTE

On the river bank , it was over to John Inverdale, a rugby expert who knows as much about rowing as I do. 'There is hardly any need for questions' he began, clearly because he couldn't think of one.
'Eventually' he asked Heather.'Tell us, what is happening in that body of yours at this moment?'. Rowing is not Inverdale's area of expertise.

Meanwhile over at Lord's cricket ground where the archery is being held , commentator Jonathan Agnew was putting his oar into things, too. Indeed, the BBC's much-loved cricket correspondent seems to have got the archery gig only because he knows his way to the ground and quite probably has a permanent parking space there.
Memorable contributions so far? QUOTE There are arrows flying everywhere . It's like the Battle of Hastings out there UNQUOTE

Great stuff!