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The best posts in the British blogosphere have been rounded up by Mr Eugenides this week.

Featured posts include this Sino-Sceptic Beau Bo D’Or cartoon and a report on the 437 BBC personnel visiting Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, which compares with 300 British Competitors and “several” politicians and their retinue. Oh - and 39 policemen.

Today has been a blogging about blogging day, which needs to be done but is a bit dry.

So it’s good to have a local news story.

The UK’s first female swimming Olympic Gold Medallist for half a century comes from just down the road from “Wardman Towers” - Mansfield in Nottinghamshire.

Mansfield has an Independent Mayor - Tony Eggington, who is now in his second term, so expect some Civic Propaganda when Becky Adlington returns.

I told you that the Midlands are the Centre of the Universe.

There is more information and the BBC interview here.

The BBC have a good online service for Olympic coverage via the web, offering 6 channels of coverage - the same as the interactive options via satellite.

It also seesms to work reasonably well via connections with speeds as low as 512kbps, which is what I have been using.

This is one of the few times of the decade when you can watch Table Tennis in preference to Football - a small island of civilisation for a couple of weeks. And now you can do it online.

One to take advantage of, expecially if you are setup with 2 monitors and have no digital TV feed to your office.

The BBC Live Olympic coverage page here, and is only available in the UK.

Here is some more advice on how to help the Chinese people get around, under, over or through the Great Firewall aimed at controlling what they can read on the Internet.

Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Usually on a Sunday I like to settle down, read the Sunday papers, fill myself with food and watch the afternoon’s offering of football. Last Sunday however was slightly different because there was a whole new form of live entertainment being broadcast right around the world. Extreme Olympic Torch Relay Running.
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Becky Adlington from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire has won a second Gold Medal.

Adlington, who is 19 and who won gold in the 400m freestyle a few days ago, finished 2.12 seconds quicker than the previous world record.

Rebecca Adlington’s time was 8:14.10; the previous World Record figure was set in 1989, the year when she was born.

The previous Olympic Games record was also shattered by more than 5 seconds.