What Winter Olympics?

"Do you watch the Olympics?" is asked every time I get a call from Europe these days. Ehh right...Olympics....well....not really to tell you the truth. In fact, without those questions I wouldn't even have remembered that there were Olympics going on. Back in the Netherlands there was no escaping it. All the papers, news broadcasts and talks in supermarkets would centre on the question: How did our ice-skaters do?
Not in South-Africa though. It is the middle of summer here and today is another hotty. I don't even think that South-Africans know that there are 3 athletes from their country participating.
Poor skeleton slider Tyler Botha and skiers Alexander Heath and Oliver Kraas. All that hard work to qualify and nobody seems to take any interest. The papers and news don't mention it and the big screen in the bar in Camps Bay we hung out yesterday featured the Rugby game between the Stormers and the ACT Brumbies. But enough about winter and sports, the beach and my towel are waiting!

(Picture: Camps Bay, friday february 24, 18.00u Sa Time)