I loved the boxing. The girls mentioned above all were technically superb, properly trained and would bash my head in. I did not really understand the scoring because in past Olympics the judges had buttons to push on a scoring shot and those score registered on the screen immediately given the viewer and boxer an indication of how the fights progresses. They scrapped that and you were never sure who wins until the end. And why is a knock down only a single point? Well done to jade jones for doing whatever she did against the Chinese girl absolutely brilliant. My favourite so far has to be Gemma gibbons in the judo. What a girl. Usain bolt is just amazing and built to run fast I missed the nature nurture argument on BBC earlier but my misses said that I had no chance on either.
The nature/nurture piece was arse-licking, apologistic propaganda. In fact, the whole night was making me cringe terribly. Shocking BBC tripe as per usual. Furthermore, this awful woman talking on Sky's Press Preview says 'The fact that Mo Farah is black, muslim and an asylum-seeker makes me truly proud to be British. He is the epitome of Great Britishness!'. I am now hysterical with anger. I need to go and rest in a dark room. But - Nicola Adams: a starlet of epic proportions. A great future beckons for the girl with the biggest smile in the land.
Fred Evans brilliant. Taekwando was great tonight - the double head kick and the flying head kick were top class. Mmmm- Dutch Hockey players... Good to see it's not just football referees who have stinkers - the first Dutch goal had a foot foul in the build up that even I could spot.
The twaekwondo organisation has a lot to answer for. They stitch up our best fighter for reasons of multicultural rather than ability That stinks. We lost a gold medal tonite.
Typical, this dispute has been running for well over a year and has nothing to do with race - it's down to a clash in philosophies, training regimes, fighting styles and funding. If the federation chose Muhammad simply because he was black, as you're suggesting, how did he end up winning a bronze medal, Britain's first Olympic medal for a man in this sport - luck?
My missus best mates brother is in the 200m boat, sprint thing in a minute. I have a front room full of excited ladies. And not in the good way.
Nah, technology these days allow me to put a hidden camera downstairs and I can watch via the laptop upstairs . Last day for Olympics. I for one will greatly miss it. They have far exceeded my expectations.
Has anyone from the taekwondo committe justified the appointment? Has anyone considered that Lulato father a well known martial artist pulled some strings? The two fought earlier this year and cook kicked his arse as he did against the gold medalist. The politics of the selection do not make sense on a sporting or on a equality basis and are not helped by a compete refusal to consider recent form and head to head competition between the two fighters. Until someone justifies the selection on an intellectual basis then I can only assume it was for reasons that are more basic. OR The spirit of selection is best man for the job, not the man that keeps attending taekwondo training to allow the funding to keep flowing into the pockets of an organisation that is not as effective as it could be. What this section proves is that the taekwondo committe was **** scared that they would not get future funding when cook left and improved considerably to be no 1 in the world. They knew that if cook won the gold medal questions would be asked so they dropped him. They would rather line their pockets than let the best man fight. It's disgusting and has nothing to do with sport. No body pulled back mo farrah from training and living in Oregon or half of our athletes from using foreign coaches and facilities.
Just got back from a ride on my mountain bike, started watching the Olympic MB final and I thought "this course looks a bit tepid", then they came on to the near vertical downhill run of rocks - ye gods. They're going to open the course to the public after the Games, all things considered (primarily staying alive) I might give this one a miss. Talking of injury, did you see that the guy who ran the third leg of the 4x400 for the USA, did so with a broken leg? He said he felt the bone snap at about 250m, but couldn't let his team mates down...
OMG - where did they get the horses for the Modern Pentathlon show jumping from - "Stroppy Nags 'R Us?"
Sorry ponders, I know you don't like it but my god, what a legend. So happy and proud of him. The only thing that could have sobered me up for 10 minutes
Fantastic fight between Campbell and Nevin, and I don't really do boxing. Daley magnificent - to get a Bronze in a contest with those two huge first two scores was a tremendous achievement.
Well done to Campbell, well deserved. Mo Farah breaks African dominance in men's long distance running...
