French Italian Team swimmer Laure Manadou: “With Luca Marin ( swimmer as well, same team) is over because he was jealous”.  

Now, I’m not that much into sport gossip but I’ve been having enough about these two sweethearts since the very beginning of their relationship. I mean, it was also kind of entertaining in the beginning (first five minutes), with the French girl and the Italian boy belonging to opposite teams and then falling in love, an example that Italian and French folks do not necessarily interact hitting each other with the head. Yeah, it was nice hearing of Laure moving to Italy to stay closer to Luca and to see them fighting against evil and annoying newspapers ( I’m sure that when Laure started to draw the name of his lover and silly hearts on her palms to be shown at the end of competitions she didn’t know at all there would be flocks of cameramen and photographers waiting for her…yeah, right). And then came the storm. Vocal fights, mediatic fights, engagement rings thrown all over the place ( and hitting poor unaware italian swimmer Magnini in the face while doing it). And now this last, interesting declaration.

Poor Laure, I can’t really see why that stupid Luca boy was so jealous…in the end, what has she done to make him being so jealous?

Did she by any chance model for some hard pictures, showing worldwide how does a swimmer look like under the swimming suit?

Did - by any chance - she start to go out with some Stalius ( Stalius?) French swimmer a week after the end of her love story with Luca? Well, yes she did. 

Most of all, beside the visibility this kind of events give to sports that are often dismissed - which is really unfair, according to me, since there is so much more athletic dignity in a swimmer than in a soccer player whose primary vexation concerns getting a new haircut - why do we care about that?     

Yesterday I read my first 2008 newspaper and get back into breaking news after ten Media free days ( my mother believes TV is evil so we’ve never had it at home…I’m not sure she’s that wrong). The news I loved most was about Queen Elizabeth ( 81 years old) playing with the ultimate Nintendo Wii Playstation. Now, couple of observations about that.  

1) I think hi-tech grannies are super cute, but according to me they also look a little weird, like the guy at the post office who has the hairiest face but never forgets to put on his sparkling eye shadow. I mean, you’ve been living for a hundred years, you’ve seen wars, you’re the queen of England…no one wants you to be also hi-tech. Queens aren’t hi - tech. Queens wear hideous pale pink hats and drink tea.  

2) The Wii Elizabeth was playing with was actually Kate Middleton’s Christmas present to William and I’ve never seen a granny stealing her nephew’s Christmas present to use it herself.

3) Now, I could change my mind about hi tech grannies if, at least, the game she played was some very rock n roll game…dunno…Resident Evil or Tomb Raider…something with loads of zombies, a little splatter, a little kinky…dunno. Not at all. She used Ultimate Playstation Wii to play bowling. What? Why? This is not being hi-tech, this is being lazy!