Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

Ahoy bloggers! I thought it was about time I introduced myself to the online community before I head to .

I'll be keeping 5live listeners up to date on events from the throughout the Games. I was looking forward to it until one of the team messaged me on Facebook to tell me that "the weather sucks and you spend your whole time being very sweaty".

First of all let me apologise about the relative blogging silence from me in the last few weeks. As I'm sure you can imagine it has been a furiously busy period for me and all the other guys, not only in the judo team but also all of the other sports who will make up in August.

Since the last time I wrote on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ website I have been through a torturous three weeks in Japan, felt the strain of injury on the return to Scotland and the relief of getting back to business on the mat.

I have shown that I can win medals when everything goes wrong and most recently I experienced what being a member of Team GB - rather than the British judo team - feels like when I was kitted out in my Olympic gear last week.

All sporting records are made to be broken but there is one out there that may just never be surpassed.