"There is a truth to sport, a purity, a drama, an intensity. A spirit that makes it irresistable to take part in, and irresistable to watch. In every Olympic sport there is all that matters in life.

And one day we will tell our children, and our grandchildren, than when our time came we did it right."
- Seb Coe, opening the 2012 games

Friday 27 July 2012

My schedule:

28/7 - Tennis at Wimbledon
29/7 - Football at Old Trafford
30/7 - Swimming heats
          Women's handball: GB v Russia and France v Spain
31/7 - Fencing - Men's Foil
          Men's volleyball - England v Australia and Brazil v Russia
1/8  - Boxing
2/8  - Beach Volleyball
3/8  - Athletics in the morning.  Heats and the start of the heptathlon.
         Men's Water Polo
4/8  - Men's basketball: GB v Australia and Argentina v Brazil
5/8  - Table Tennis - Men's team quarter finals
6/8  - Canoe Sprint heats
         Women's hockey: GB v Netherlands and Argentina v Australia
7/8  -
8/8  - Canoe Sprint finals
         Men's Basketball quarter finals, hopefully to include the USA
9/8  -
10/8 - Taekwondo finals
11/8 - 
12/8 - Women's modern pentathlon

...I think I've ticked about half the available boxes.  My big regret is having no cycling so far.  Gymnastics and diving would be interesting too, but it's the cycling that hurts in the Summer of Wiggins.

Top three people I'm most excited to watch:  The greatest olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, in the 200m butterfly, Jessica Ennis at the start of her Heptathlon title defence and LeBron in the basketball.  If the US don't top their group and end up in the other quarter final session I'm going to have words with coach Krzyzewski.

Biggest under-the-radar excitement is for the GB hockey girls in their final pool game, the clash between world number one Brazil and number two Russia at the volleyball, and watching the Murray brothers in the first round of the men's doubles tomorrow night.  I was disappointed as hell not to be seeing Aaron Cook in the Taekwondo final, but his controversial non-selection gives Lutalo Muhammed a chance to prove his own worth.

I loved the idea of closing out the games by seeing their very last gold medal awarded, in the modern pentathlon.  Could British world champion Mhairi Spence give the games their perfect conclusion?  I think it's scripted.

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