Guardian-bloggið frá ÓL er stundum sniðugt:
10.19am: Plucky underdog corner. Tired of exulting in Britain’s successes? Feeling the burden of superpowerdom? Yearning for the good old days of taking on the big boys?
Feast your eyes on this: Poland (population: 40,000,000) have lost to Iceland (population: mostly puffins) in the handball.
„It was great, I still cannot believe it. We’re such a small country and we won against a 40-million-people country. Now there’s going to be a handball boom in Iceland,“ added the sadly misguided Alexander Peterssen.
„We get about 500 spectators per game,“ Iceland right back Olafur Stefansson added. „It’s understandable, sometimes there’s bad weather and you don’t want to go driving 20 minutes through the snow when you can watch TV instead.“
Sometimes there’s bad weather?