Meanwhile, I thought Rebecca Addlington was disappointing tonight.

yes, because you could have done better?

the American girl was amazing (I wonder if the Chinese coach will accuse her of doping), Addlington has done incredibly well in her career, remember, anyone even n a final is one of the BEST 8 in THE WORLD at the time.

what's your biggest achievement, and how much sacrifice did it require?

Eh? She won a bronze medal in the Olympics. In what world is that disappointing?

As she said ... If you think Silver or Bronze is losing, try her sport.

Felt sorry for Adlington, who suffered from the usual British media treatment of building the expectation on her to an unrealistic level....Yes, she had a good chance going into the race, but if you believed the hype, she was an odds on favourite, which was never the case.

On the subject of somebody who suffers from over expectation from our media, I was glad to see Andy Murray show some grit in his match with Djokovic - For all his detractors, Murray is a top player, and it would be great if he could beat Federer on Sunday and perhaps shut some of his know-nothing critics up....Considering he often gets slagged off for his supposed surlyness, it was good to see Murray show some passion and get the crowd in a similar state.

In the world of a halfwhit that has achieved the adulation of passing their driving test.

Amazing how the usual negative f'whits have disappeared now we're getting LOTS of medals, Sin Bin, the home of jealous people who hate success and want us all to pay for the sink at the shallow end.

No doubt the idiots will lock this (or say it belongs in other sports), but what a day to be British, incredible Olympics so far, and 7 more days to go!!

Spot on!

What about the traffic jams

Not locked ... not moved to 'other sports' ...

Because we already have a thread where the Olympics are being discussed.

... and yes, we've had some fantastic successes.

Are you moaning, about other people moaning ?

Well, having gone down on Wednesday for the weightlifting I can report it was a fantastic experience.

Brilliant atmosphere all over central London, volunteers, Police and the military who couldn't do enough to help anyone and having a laugh with people. Spectators form all over the World mingling together laughing and joking.

I don't know anything about weightlifting but it's actually far more tactical and interesting that I realised. We saw Lu Xioajun of China lift a World record in the snatch and an Olympic record over all.

Very, very excited to be going back down for the athletics tomorrow night.

Because she won the gold last time and although the young American was nowhere previously, and as she was so young then the chances are she would have got the gold anyway, Adlington was up for silver based on previous performances alone. It was her world record that the young American couldn't beat. She has since stated that the pressure got to her. Measure that by the performance of Jessica Ennis, who has had much more pressure given her status as poster girl for the Olympics, and I guess there stands the difference between a performer and an under-performer.

According to newspaper reports I have read this morning, British Swimming is looking into what they have identified as underperformance across the board among our swimmers, bar Jamieson who actually over-performed in securing his silver (and what a race he swam too - amazing).

Its sport, it happens, however as humans we try and over-analyse things to an extent where we actually believe that past performance is totally meaningful and human things like expectation, emotion, fatigue or perhaps just the journey to the pool that night mean nothing to the performer - whereas in fact they are probably far more important than what happened the last time they all met in competition.

Its why real live sport can be so fascinating and computer generated sports games can be so predictable.

In 2007 Leeds beat Saints 33-6 in the Grand Final.
The following year Leeds beat Saints 24-16.
It was very disappointing.