The day I met the Great Britain Olympics team
Posted: Monday, August 18, 2008
by Simon Ellinas
Cartoons and Caricatures
The current success of Great Britain in the Beijing Olympics reminds me of the time I met Team GB.
Amazingly, it is already four years since I was hired to entertain our Olympic athletes by drawing caricatures at the coming home party after the Games in Athens in 2004.It was an exhilarating event held in the toy store, Hamleys, in London. Big names such as Tim Henman, Kelly Holmes and Paula Radcliffe were absent, but I had the honour meeting many of the events top rowers, yachtswomen and Amir Khan, the champion boxing prodigy.
My research team is still out there trying to hunt down the name of this Olympic runner! Do check back later!
A group of Olympic rowers towering above me. From left to right: Tom Stallard,Phil Simmons, Jonno Devlin and Christian Cormack. They had HUGE handshakes!
Rowers, Frances Houghton and Deborah Flood looking as if they could easily make mincemeat of me!
Gold Medallist yachtswoman (2004 AND 2008!) Sarah Webb
Olympic boxer Amir Khan meets his match!
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