Mongolia I could hug you! If Ulan Bator jumped up and down yesterday at a silver medal in the Women’s 25m Pistol, they must have generated a 3.0 magnitude quake when Mongolia won a gold in the Men’s up to 100kg Judo group today. It’s just a shame that I have no knowledge of Mongol otherwise I would congratulate the nation in their own language. And it doesn’t stop there, due to the cancellation of today’s events in the sailing and rowing several small nations are still in the hunt for medals (so expect my small nation medal table to have a few new names on it).

But on the subject of small nations, tomorrow is a very special day for one of them. August 15th is the national day of Liechtenstein which is one of t