Sport is big in Belgium. Alas, the Belgian football team hasn't really done much lately, but when the manager has to give team talks in two languages, its not surprising really. The Belgian womens' relay team won silver medal in the Beijing Olympics, which made headlines for weeks (and you thought the British press got excited about silver and bronze medals). But one sport seems to really excite the Belgians, and that is tennis.
My Belgian ex-girlfriend was no exception, being tennis mad. In fact tennis being the only thing she seemed to get excited about when she was with me (suppose that might explain why she is now my ex). But I digress. She reliably informed me that hundreds of people would gather before big screens to watch Belgian players at Wimbledon. One year, two Belgians faced each other in a later round (Kin Clijsters and Justine Henin), and given one is from Flanders and the other from Walloonia, that one had "grudge match" all over it.
On the topic of tennis, that bastion of liberal journalism, the Daily Mail, had a piece on women's tennis. Purely for research purposes, I clicked on a link of a female tennis player. It has been alleged that the All England Club is putting attractive female tennis players on Centre Court, as it improves ratings to have attractive women on TV. So, male dominated businesses using sex to sell. How original.
I wonder whats the French for "Do bears s**t in the woods?"
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