formula one + euro cup = sleepy

last night i took a nap from 9pm to 11pm to give myself energy to stay awake for the euro cup final shown live in the middle of the night thailand time. for my american friends tuning in, this was a big football (soccer) tournament among european national teams. a couple of lesser-ranked teams wound up in the final, the favorite and home team of portugal and the underdog greek team.

needless to say, it was a great game with portugal completely dominating in terms of the number of shots taken but greece pulling through to win 1 to 0 despite constant pressure. you can read a good summary on pisal's page.

in other sports news, the earlier formula one gp of france was won by none other than (get ready for it...) michael schumacher. looked like alonso had a chance for a while, but the ferrari team used an interesting strategy and pitted 4 times- ferrari's gain by running a lighter fuel load and overall better tires more than offset the time difference to the then-leading alonso, so schumacher exited the last pitstop ahead of the renault.

actually saw some passing on the track for once, with barichello moving from tenth to fourth and then passing trulli on one of the last corners of the race to take third place and a podium spot.