"The English, the English, the English are..." Well I dunno about "best". Now we can't even win at Pooh Sticks! The team gold went a Czech side! See here for more.

But the most wonderful part of the story, I thought, was this bit:

"The event has been held in Oxfordshire ever since a local lock-keeper noticed people were picking sticks off a hedge and playing the traditional game.

He began charging them in order to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute."

How terribly, terribly English! We may not be the best (just different (just like everyone else, then)!), but it's that sort of daft, disinterested idea that, I think, is some of the best of the English!

Hooray for us! Even if we did lose... ;)