Hi there and welcome to todays Levy Letter. Its been a busy morning at the Olympics. Did you catch the 10km open water marathon over breakfast? I wont spoil the result in case you havent seen it yet, but it was very exciting. And I was amazed at how these athletes could sprint to the finish even after 10km of hard swimming!
Table Tennis And speaking of the Olympics, heres something Id never heard of before. Table tennis isnt a game thats particularly well known apart from during the Olympics, but its certainly a surprisingly exciting game to watch. Ive read though that the top table tennis players have used for a while a kind of glue to boost the power and spin of their shots as the ball hits their paddle. But this speed glue could put these athletes health at risk as they may inhale its toxic fumes. Before each match, the competitors will glue a fresh rubber covering onto their paddle, but the fumes from the glue can make them feel dizzy. A Japanese player collapsed apparently last year whilst gluing his bat falling into a coma for six days. Although theres no direct link confirmed between the glue and this table tennis players condition, there are still concerns about the fumes let off by the glue. Based on these concerns though, the International Table Tennis Federation have banned glues like ! these and the Beijing games will be the last time theyre used. There are concerns though that by banning players from using this speed glue, the game will slow down and not be as exciting. Well have to wait and see I suppose at 2012! File Sharing Well, they threatened to do it and now it looks like the computer companies are fighting back against illegal file-sharing. A British woman, who put a game on a file-sharing network, has been ordered to pay damages to the games creator. The computer games company behind a pinball game has won more than £16,000 following legal action against a woman from London, who shared her copy of their game online. Well, is this the start do you think for more law suits like this? Online piracy is a huge concern not just for computer games companies, but for the music industry as well. Well, that's it from me for now. I hope your day is going well. Join me tonight if you can at the usual time of half past six. Take care, Peter Your email address will be held by the BBC and kept confidential, and will only be used in relation to this newsletter. You will be given the option to unsubscribe from this newsletter each time you receive it. Please visit the BBC's Privacy & Cookies Policy (www.bbc.co.uk/privacy) for more information And for the latest news and more where you live, go to: http://bbc.co.uk/humber and http://bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the BBC Look North newsletter, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/looknorthhull/newsletter/newsletter_index.shtml, enter your email address in the unsubscribe box. 1.94.4
