I can only get some colourful static on the channel where they're showing the olympics I haven't been able to watch any of it yet but I heard the 4x100m men's freestyle swimming was amazing (woo for BBC world!)

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I haven't really got round to watching the Olympics, i missed the opening ceremony too.

I suppose there's always BBC World. Thanks Sparrow for the idea :)

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As people have already mentioned..yeah, the opening ceremony (or the first part) was pretty amazing- we had people over that night =) and we watched it together. My main complaint though was the fact that the Aussies came out third last ....and when they finally did come out- it was in blue (not our trademark green and gold) :o :(. As for the events itself- the Swimming has been awesome :o Of course I'm a little bitter about the finals being in the morning...(Beijing have the same timezone as us)- but wow, the Relays. the IMs (go Steph Rice :D....Phelps! :o)...and the butterfly =) (glad Libby finally won an Individual Olympic Gold <3)) have all been awesome. And I couldn't help feeling happy for my many UK-friends (though not sure how many actually care about :p) :) when I heard that you'd won your first swimming medals in ages! :D
I managed to catch the end of this match on radio- and wow, I'm so proud :D We managed to beat Greece 8-5- and she scored 4 of our goals. What a star!!

Wow! I bet it was nice to know her while you were at school, and strange seeing her on TV. I also used to go to school with an Olympic hopeful, but they are not playing until London 2012.

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Lewis Hamilton was in his last year at my school when I joined. How exciting :)
But not really...

I'm surprised I don't see him more often, seeing as I live right around the corner from McLaren in Woking :P

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You lucky bugger

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My friend saw him in Nandos the other week lol.

But back to the exciting olympics....

4 x 200m womens swimming... Wthhhhhh was team GB doing!! gr. i turned the tv on especially to watch that

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We didn't do too well then? :(

Can't wait for the Badminton mixed doubles 1/4-finals tomorrow...should be good :)

Yeah they wanted the best swimmers to rest for the final, but we failed to qualify for the final.

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useless aussie males.. havent even got a gold yet..!!

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has anyone seen Jina Miles? she got a silver medal! Jina Miles is my dad's step cousin

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Woo what a day for team GB :D 3rd place now :)

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Ha! And if team GB falls to position 10 or something all the forumites know who to blame for jynxing them. *mass emails the UK to pass on db's info* ;p

I've not been keeping up with the olympics this year but what I have seen so far has been great. That Jamaican guy btw... PHWOAR! He was like a rocket!

Oh, and whilst I'm here, any other UKers noticed how we really only get shown the sports that team GB excel in yet as soon as there are no GB people competing that sport gets forgotten about?

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Yehh:(( i noticed that aj... it sucks.. some of the sports i like to watch arent on because we arent in themmm and bbc doesnt even put it on their red button option.. :((

i thought the walking race was funny(: first time ive ever seen that.. they looked like penguins.. was awesome(:
Also,, Mens 100m..Usain Bolt fastest man in the world... phwoar(: loved it.. ive only just got hooked on the olympics this time:D its amazing hahah

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Oi! :P Just a quick reason for celebration that's all :)
It was a grand effort.

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I still haven't watched any of the Olympics The Sydney and Salt Lake City Olympics I was addicted to, but my cable doesn't work for my tv so I haven't watched any. I don't think these ones are much for Canadians though...most of Canada is pretty bitter about these Olympics. A couple of days ago we finally got our first medal...so as far as I know, we have two. A bronze and a silver.

Booooooo Canadian government not funding professional sports!!!!!! We had better have a better showing at the Vancouver 2010. Having said that, Canada normally does far better in winter Olympics than summer.

Edit: BAHAHA correction....apparently we have NINE medals now. Shows how much I've been following this....ah yes, rowing is a pretty good one for Canadians...and women's wrestling apparently.