Lisa, who I am sharing the apartment with, decided that she would try and swap her evening ticket, to come to the morning session as GB would be a far better game to watch. When the box office wouldnt swap, she just bought a morning ticket anyway and headed into the park to wait. I arranged to meet her at the Carioca 1 arena at 10am, completely forgetting that this was the furthest away of the 3 Cariocas and then I ended up at the wrong entrance watching Lisa heading up the entrance steps.
Eventually caught up with her and we decided to chance a seat switch to join some other GB supporters. Walking straight past the volunteers on the entry we chose seats and sat down.
The match was not as exciting as I had hoped, I think wheelchair rugby may not be for me, and not helped by being beaten by Australia, by just 2 points.
Afterwards we headed off to get some lunch, and she then went off to start her shift, I headed to the MPC to meet up with 3 others I had arranged last leg tickets for.
Joshua was there first, then Keri and finally Tom caught us up. Ana and Claudia, 2 of my team managers were also going, plus a few other volunteers I knew by name but not in person.
We headed into the studio and started off at the same place we previously had, then they asked for someone to sit in the area right behind the sofa, well no need to ask twice, I dragged Joshua with me and we spent the whole recording facing the cameras nearest to where Josh Widdicombe sat. People at home have mentioned they saw me, looks like the pictorial evidence will have to wait until I get back.
Managed to get a pic with Alex and Josh, before they headed off to see the wheelchair basketball, much more my sport, and with Australia playing GB a good match to see.
I followed Ana and Claudia back to the MPC, and then Joshua came and found me to say thanks for organising and we decided we would head into the park for a beer. Then he said about going to see the basketball, so we headed to the Rio Arena, via the press entrance, seeing as we had no tickets, and had some great seats to watch the whole game, with a brilliant win for GB.
Tom and another volunteer Rebecca were also there and after we all headed out to find some food, meeting Josh Widdecombe and some of the last leg crew for some chat and pin swapping. Joshua got his selfie.
Having planned to head back and do some washing, I was sidetracked by the possibility of getting into the swimming arena and seeing the 4x100m relay, so again Joshua led us in through the press entrances (now we nay not have tickets, but as we all have the right accreditations to be in the press areas, it wasn't like sneaking in when we weren't allowed) and we just caught the end of the race, where GB finished 4th, but the increasing roar from the Brazilians as their team came in to take the silver medal was deafening.
Tom and Rebecca headed off to catch the BRT back to their accommodation, so yet again using Joshua's press entrance experience, we headed to the future arena to watch some goalball, and of course another beer.
Time then to head out of the park and home for some kip.
A great Free day.
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