I thought straight away at the time when she didn't move at all that she had broken her neck, was awful viewing. I fully agree the course should be difficult for the Olympics - but not so barbaric that any mistake not just costs you the race but potentially your career. I do however think she got the speed and angle of entry into that particular turn all wrong, she was far too narrow for the tight bend under no pressure from other riders - I guess they will have ridden the course many times before the actual race (?) so that turn shouldn't have been a surprise.... however mistakes like that should cost time allowing the pack to catch up somewhat, not have you speared into a concrete wall fracturing your back!

always look forward to the Athletics, that is the Olympics for me. I will watch a few of the other things going off involving Brit hopes but things like football and Golf etc.. wouldn't give it the time of day as Olympic sports go they just don't belong for me.

I'll watch the athletics and maybe Nicola Adams in the boxing thats all for me though. No interest whatsoever in the other stuff

455 to Brazil is hard to defend. More than Wigan took to Donny for a cc semi final

I've seen a lot of discussion on this in the cycling forums I hang about, and there is various discussions about how they could mitigate against this, maybe hay bales but if it rained this could have caused flooding, and its not possible to have a net here (like that which caught Richie Porte the day before)

I can see from her Strava she had been down this same descent 3 times last week, maybe many times before. How many of those would be at the same intensity & pressure as leading the race for Olympic gold, with a decent gap back to second (caught with 150m to go & finished 4th)?

She's done thousands of similar corners while descending before, but got caught up in the pressure of the moment. Its the equivalent of passing the ball to Tony Clubb on the 5th tackle, in a Grand Final.

That was a shocking performance by GB's women 7's side. Completely choked with a bronze medal up for grabs.

Nibali also fell in the TDF on a descent this year so maybe he has become a bit blaze about going downhill maybe he is no longer as invincible as he believes he is.

The points I was trying to make are: it wasn't the first time they made that descent IIRC three times during the race and the number of fallers were few. Thomas fell but that is not new for him last year he spent more time on his bum during the classic season than on his bike.

The fencing was excellent, got right into that, never watched it before and now looking forward to the team event gb good chance of a medal

Not sure you're quite comparing like with like there...

Olympics for me is all about the track & field and particularly the 100m. That's pretty much the pinnacle of competitive sport of any form.

Other than that will watch the later round basketball, and accidentally saw some of the women's rugby 7s and it was actually quite good, so might watch the men's too. Remember quite enjoying the Handball during London 2012 too.

There are a lot of ridiculous sports there though, anything that needs to be scored by judges or involves a horse for a start.

Whilst the track and field is the main one I enjoy watching a bit of a number of others like the swimming and track cycling. I enjoyed watching the synchronised diving last night, the Chinese pair were just unbelievable and I don't mind catching a bit of the gymnastics usually.

Ones I'm not fussed by are the football (see enough of that year round), any of the boxing, judo etc, weight lifting and hockey. Usually watch golf when the majors are on but probably won't bother with too much of this as they'll be plenty of others things going on at the same time and the best players have opted out.

The gymnasts are incredible - their all round fitness, strength and flexibility is very impressive

Some of the strength moves especially on the rings defies belief - technique at its absolute optimum

but still dull

That's my thoughts too. Ultimate athletes

The gymnastics has been good, not sure about Johnny Vegas doing the commentary though.

New Zealand men's team lose to Japan 12-14 in the rugby 7's in their opening game and Sonny Bill Williams partially ruptures his Achilles heel and is ruled out for the rest of the tournament.