prepare yourself for this, looked around toward the end of the race?

He also waggled his baton and made the #1 sign and kissed it as he crossed the finish line. In my opinion you aren't #1 for winning a heat unless you have some record in hand when you do it, and even then it's indicative of poor planning. Y'aint #1 till you walk away with the gold, so be careful.

Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe

MALIA, Greece — Even in a sea of tourists, it is easy to spot the Britons here on the northeast coast of Crete, and not just from the telltale pallor of their sun-deprived northern skin.

They are the ones, the locals say, who are carousing, brawling and getting violently sick. They are the ones crowding into health clinics seeking morning-after pills and help for sexually transmitted diseases. They are the ones who seem to have one vacation plan: drinking themselves into oblivion.

“They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,” Malia’s mayor, Konstantinos Lagoudakis, said in an interview. “It is only the British people — not the Germans or the French.”

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Local officials say the blame lies not just with the tourists themselves, but also with the operators of package tours promising drinking-and-partying vacations, and clubs offering industrial-strength alcohol at rock-bottom prices. For about $50 in Malia, tourists can go on unlimited-drinking pub crawls.

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Unfortunately, I don't think it's that straight-forward.

“They scream, they sing, they fall down, they take their clothes off, they cross-dress, they vomit,”

Sounds like San Francisco.

I read that article, tommyrot...I thought it was sad. I mean, I've been known to drink too much on occasion, but...dude. What kind of vacation is that, just drinking til you puke every damn night and all day? How can that be fun?? I mean, beyond being safe, or healthy?

made the #1 sign and kissed it as he crossed the finish line.

OK, I didn't see that part. That sounds somewhat douchey.

Y'aint #1 till you walk away with the gold, so be careful.

Fair point; you can thump your chest and hoot and holler, but making the #1 sign could bite you in the ass.

The bronze medalist in men's hurdles is from Cincinnati, and he kept chanting "5-1-3" after the race was over, and it seriously took me a full minute to realize it was the Cincy area code. I was thinking it was how he placed in his previous 3 races or something.

Duhhhhhh.

(I've just never heard people chant an area code as a sign of city loyalty, is all. Some people call Cincinnati "The 'Nati," but I think it's ironically.)

Some people call Cincinnati "The 'Nati," but I think it's ironically.)

SO if we ever get another Teppy here, we can call you Nati!Teppy?

I've just never heard people chant an area code as a sign of city loyalty,

Really? I've heard it a lot. Mostly in rap songs.

Today is day 2 of "OK,no, seriously? You've got to be kidding."

(or is it Day 25? I can't tell anymore.)