No rugby memorabilia today, just a fine aerial picture of the Singapore Cricket Club ... For those who have never been to Singapore, it is this nice colonial building in the lower part of the picture...

Well, today and tomorrow the International Olympic Committee is in Singapore to elect the city which will organize the 2012 Olympics. It seems to be a close race between Paris and London, and I sincerely hope that the Olympic Games will land in France... I would like to share that with my kids... (if it is London, maybe we'll cross the Channel but I won't be the same thing...).

All this fine people is gathered at the Raffles hotel, which is about 500 yards north to the Cricket Club, on the opposite side of this large pitch in central Singapore (called "the padang") that you can see on my picture...

I like this place so much... actually, I used to play rugby there !

I had been living in Singapore for almost a year a loooong time ago (15 years ago, indeed..). Quite a exiting country, say... and possibly one of my best experience as a (humble) rugby player to meet all those guys from England, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, etc... at the Singapore Cricket Club Men's Bar...

PS : as you probably all know, it's very likely that rugby will be back at the Olympics in 2008 or 2012 (most likely @ 7)... a long break since 1924 ...