on a slightly different tack, hasn't the bbc website been excellent for its coverage - you can go on here or the iplayer and watch just about everything.

love the timeline text commentry which runs right through the day as well

Id got sick of hearing about it but like you,after the opening ceremony,which was superb and not over the top like other ones,ive been watching it all.Made me laugh when people was moaning about no golds...i just said wait for the rowers and cyclists to start.

Why are we not in the least bit surprised.

Still funny though for all of us overgrown schoolboys up and down the land

The last straw for me was when they told me I had to rename my Olympic Sausage.

Great race by Shanaze Reade. BMX is brutal - said they were sweeping teeth off the track yesterday.

The whole event from the opening so far has been awesome and made me proud to be british again and I have cheered along to everything i have watched (daily) and I have enjoyed some bits more than others of course, last nights tai kwan do was awesome (wish I had been that good) great to see gold in the ladies boxing as well, and heres hoping the closing ceremony is as cool as the opening...

BUT the highlight of the whole games for me was

LADIES BEACH VOLLEYBALL , now theres a true spectator sport I had watched three heats before i realised there was a ball involved

This for me

Got pretty peev'd hearing about it every minute but since the opening Ceremony all I can say is WOW!!!

What a show they have put on and ran it practically to precision. The BBC's coverage has been incredible (bar a couple of numpties like Inverdale)

Team GB has been nothing short of sensational.

Makes you truly proud to be BRITISH again.

Roll on the the Paralympics

looking forward to that too , lets hope they do as well with medals, think we have some great athletes there too so it seems

Not much prior to 2012 has done this for me recently but this year along with the Jubilee has made me realise what a great country we are and in reality how lucky we are to have been born here!
agreed, the olympics has made me also proud to be a Brit again

Agree with you on that the Jubliee that just got us all warmed up especially the singers on the barge in the p!55ing rain.

Shame we dont celebrate our nation as often as we should.

but who is to blame for that, St Patricks only really gets celebrated because Guinness plough so much money into it, St Andrews goes largely unnoticed as does St David Day, we're all too busy navel gazing and looking for someone to blame to pick our heads up and realise we live in a bloody great country with some bloody great people in it.

We are a country that only celebrates history and rarely looks to the future and our potenital, we moan about the "youth" and our politicians are too busy telling us how "broken" the country is, the media have convinced us all we're in a "double dip" recession when, in reality, most people haven't really see THAT much change in their day to day lives. (I admit there are some notable expections to that last point on this very board)

Pun intended?