By 1988 I had perfected my teletext tuning skills and had the only fully working teletext TV I know of, I had tuned a few more fer mates but they all Fooked them up by trying to fine tune it themselves !
Then along came the Seoul olympics (Flo-Jo, Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson being the Stars), I took 2 weeks holidays from work to watch it as it was all done in an opposite time zone.
I sat down each night with my Olympic Ante-post A3 sheet and marked it off through-out the night with the help of the Teletext services and adding my own updated betting on each of the many main events fer the head compiler to browse through the next morning before I would retire to bed fer the day. That evening the current days Olympic Ante-post list was dropped to me to update overnight and it soon became clear that every event that I had priced up was exactly what went on to the document the next morning, unwittingly and without requesting or asked or being told I was suddenly the Head and only Olympic compiler.
It was my first real introduction in to odds compiling and I took it very seriousely even wearing 2 watches fer the different time zones and I heard the updates from my colleagues that our Olympic odds list was by far superior to any other firms, other firms only offered odds on the very top events like the 100m and 200m while we with my overnight help aided by Teletext were able to provide a full list of odds on all the main on-going track and field events first thing every morning.
Fer the most part I got the vast majority of the odds correct, the one Boo-Boo that I did make was in pricing up the womens 200m final as; 1/6 Flo-Jo, 9/2 Heike Drechsler and 12/1 bar. A lot of shrewd customers lumped on to the German girl Heike Drechsler @ 9/2 and it was the only time the day compiler changed my odds to; 1/4 Flo-Jo, 5/2 Heike Drechsler and 20/1 bar.
Flo-Jo was the Golden Girl of that Olympics and in hindsight I defo priced it up with 'Rose-tinted glasses' but thankfully Flo-Jo saw out the day.
