Winter olympic sabotage
Remember back many years ago when Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards was Britain's far-sighted hopeful for the ski jump event at the winter Olympics in 1988? Many of you are probably too young to but he was a best man in an event that Britain was never ever going to win. Never a nation to let impending defeat get in the way of our patriotic fervour the whole nation was wishing him well.

He would train in his back garden on a makeshift training device make from metal poles which simulated the position he would have to hold for the winter events. He would be there day in, day out swinging backwards and forwards in this tin contraption trying to build himself up for the big contest. But boy did it squeek! The sound of that thing going all day did my head in. SO I conspired to help all concerned...

In the dead of night, armed with a can of 3-in-1 oil and a near toxic adrenaline load coursing though my veins I snuck into his garden and oiled the fuck out of that thing. When I left the action was smooth, refined piece of engineering.

Sad to say the oiling may have had unforeseen consequences. Without the additional resistance provided by the grind of metal on metal training was not as fruitful as hoped. Eddie came last in both the 70m and 90m events. Screw Ed over? I am deeply ashamed to admit that yes, perhaps I did.
( Jimvin dropped plates on your arse at, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 12:52, 2 replies)

Yeah right
I remember one of the commentators saying that if he'd been competing in the 1930s he'd have got a silver medal or better.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 13:45, closed)

Eddy was great
I remember the commentators at the time saying it was a shame that some low life was taking the public's attention away from the serious competitors. Ski jumping is a poncey useless sport and Eddy put a bit of fun in it.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 3:58, closed)