Paul Goodison

WOW!!!!
What an amazing feeling it was to stand on the podium yesterday as the national anthem played with a gold medal around my neck!!!!!
It has been a long week and i feel emotionally and physically drained, and may be a touch hung over this morning.
I woke up this morning and headed down to the shops on route to watch the windsurfers. I was after a pair of gold trainers, I had seen them while training in June but didnt want to put the kiss of death on to my racing. I was gutted they didn't have my size!! It was pretty funny as i was reconised by a few of the locals as i tried to leave. Everybody wanted me to sign something and have their pictures taken with me which was pretty cool.
I headed down to sailing centre and watched Bryony and Nick head out for battle. There was a great atmosphere on the wall as the sailors, support staff and family members gathered in an array of union jacks. There was plenty of screaming and shouting as Britney pumped here way to a Bronze medal, fantastic work.
I was absolutely gutted for Nick as he just missed out on the medals in what seemed to be a really short medal race. I have a pretty good idea how it feels after Athens and I really feel for him.
Im going to try and catch a bit of sleep this afternoon before helping Bryony celebrate this evening, then its back to the wall tomorrow again to cheer for the Tornado and Star boys, COME ON!!!!!!!