Though I'd start a thread as this is an event that all of us will only experience once in a lifetime......to me the best part will be the legacies with the superb infrastructure left behind....

Dil - and he admitted doing it in the interview afterwards!

Good start to the Athletics - Central Line Tube suspended between Liverpool Street and Leytonstone due to signal failure.

Well that puts us above France, Germany & Italy :-)

Great Britain won its fourth Olympic gold in 24 hours - and sixth in total - as Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins triumphed in the women's double sculls.

Tremendous performances all round.....bravo team UK as it should be called.....usual crap from the soccer team.....what on earth do they do on the training ground that lot ?.......these are fulltime soccer players...not part time players...and yet.....so poor..it's ubelievable.....only towards the end of the game were they any good moves.....sad....but there you go....

Well done Jessica.

Fantastic from the GK (UK) team....bravo....only the football team has let us down...otherwise really superb !....

Absolutely fantastic from Team GB athletes, the atmosphere in the stadium is electric well done to the spectators as well. Jessica and Mo were under terrific pressure to perform as the expectations did not allow for defeat, thankfully neither were found wanting, and for Jessica to come in 1st in the 800 was superb.
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Personally I don't think football or tennis should be in the Olympics.
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It is a bit weird that the tennis pros are there......anyway Murray has done the UK proud....

Fab Bolt...100m......and who's the moron that threw a bottle ?...

Terrific race all finishers sub 10sec. Can't say I enjoy the circus antics of some of the runners much (including Bolt) but great race all the same. Well done also to Christine Oh. in the 400 metres, silver to add to her gold from 4 years ago.
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The male athletes have come up short, apart from the 2 gold medals and the sprinters doing as well as could be expected, the rest seem to have disappointed. For a nation with such a pedigree in 400, and 1500 metre runners the current crop are below the norm.
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40 medals....superb performances.....the Russians have the same amount but they have been a bit unlucky with the gold.....winning mostly silver and bronze....the Aussies aren't doing so well either this time round...

I had to smile (or was it cry?) when Sturridge took his penalty kick.

He ran up and paused before kicking the ball, as though to trick the goalie into moving or maybe check which way the goalie was going to move.

The goalie moved to Sturridge's right.

Sturridge then kicked the ball straight to the goalie!

Aaaaaargh! Noooooo! That's not how you do it! You should have kicked it left! 'Struth!

An easy save for the goalie!

It is so obvious why the England team always lose penalty shoot-outs, they have been conditioned to play the ball backwards for 90% of a match, so when they take a penalty they do what comes naturally----they pass it back to the keeper.
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Sort of Ronaldo penalty imitation....I knew he would miss it....you get the feeling sometimes...and there is a total lack of imagination when in possession in midfield and this seems to be a big problem in the UK....nobody seems to understand how to support another player that has the ball...so usual stuff of a long nonsense ball across field missing the destined player 90% of the times...ooohhhh whoooohhhh...it is so irritating to watch this happening time and time again...my question is ; what on earth do they teach these blinkin' players at the training grounds ?...

Watched the last bit of the women's hockey and they seem to have the same problem as the mens football team i.e no idea going forward.

Well done Nicola Adams - fantastic job.

And Katie Taylor - well done!

Well the UK team are doing us proud : 24 gold.....fantastic when you think that we are a small country......in percentage terms of a population-ratio : we are probably at the top !......congratulations to the athletes.....suberb results !...

Yes very well done to Nichola Adams as the 1st Womans Olympic Boxing Champion http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19200168

Stan- I was at the women's hockey in the group match v The Netherlands and agree we were clueless going forward.
As a Leeds boy I have pride in Nicola Adams achievement. She deserves all the credit heading in her direction.