Rob in Rio Herald column Part One
West Wales media consultant Robert Lloyd is spending time in Rio de Janeiro at the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics. He will be reporting exclusively for The Herald newspaper series on his adventures. If my personal road trip to Rio is anything to go by, this could be a roller-coaster journey. Three years in the planning, the journey hit what can only be described as a speed bump last week with a medical issue. So, I write this very much in hope – the hope that I will be on the plane to Rio on Sunday . . . just as long as the doctors agree it is safe for me to travel. Three years seems like a long time, but the reality is that my personal Olympics and Paralympics journey goes back further still. A lifelong fan of the Games (one of my earliest memories is of David Hemery winning the 1968 400 metres hurdles at Mexico on our first colour telly!), it has always been a ‘must see’ TV event in our house. The idea of actually ‘being there’ at an Olympics first started forming during a summ...