Olympics

We are quite sure this isn't just a good excuse for a bit of couch potatoing?

No!!! Forget I said that! (I have just enjoyed a hockey match!)

I think it is a bit odd how, in the men's cycling yesterday, the young team member said his false start in the previous race was done deliberately because he wasn't satisfied with the speed. So he wobbled and fell off! And they all started again.

Apparently they are allowed two false starts in cycling, but to do it deliberately doesn't seem fair to their opponents whose start might have been perfection! The presenter on the Today programme was trying to make something of this, but it seems to have been swept under the carpet.

I'm getting to like this couch potato lark. We'll be in for a rude awakening when it's all over

JO4, my impression was that he was joking about deliberately falling off the bike. If he really had done that, do you think he would have admitted it?

Blimey medals in the rowing, judo and cycling. We are doing really well.

Making me tired just watching.

I think he meant it, Annobel. The rest of the team are trying to pass it off as a 'lost in translation' thing, as he's German, but anyway they're not going to do anything about it - rules may be changed before the next Olympics.

Well, you're not one merlotgran. Not with all those chicken coops to clean!

He definitely meant it.

I don't think girls should do judo. It's fighting!

I'm gonna get flamed for that!

Better than girls boxing, though....
(is that flaming? I hope not!)

Oh heck. I find it O.K. I don't like boxing though.

It's the fact they still seem to be in their dressing gowns that gets me!
A propos of absolutely nothing,earlier this week I opened the door in my dressing gown, hair like Cherie Blair's in that picture, no actually worse, and found two earnest Jehovah's Witness ladies on the door step. "Oh dear" said the "leader" . "were you expecting someone else?"
"Looking like this?" I replied," hardly George Clooney", and shut the door quickly!

Becky Adlington, but what a gallant sportswoman - a Bronze is a magnificent achievement - easy for us to criticise from the sofa, but what a pace those swimmers set!

For some reason I haven't been feeling confident about Becky this week; probably because, of all the sports, in swimming there seemed to be a wave of very young competitors overtaking the old guard. She did us proud, did Becky [local girl and all that].

Judo is very big in France and I think it's going to take off here. I decided today that I must start buying a raffle ticket each week, as so many people have said how important lottery funding has been to them.

Great Scots! Sir Chris Hoy, Kath Grainger - and maybe - fingers crossed - Andy Murray. What an achievement to beat Djokovic in two sets. Come to think of it, one of the winning canoeists was also Scottish.

Couldn't we have a fingers crossed emoticon? I seem to have been crossing mine a lot this week.

Annobel - Heather Glover and Tim Baillie too - I'm keeping track

It could look like the lottery logo - any chance, techies?

I'm glad you are, G123. I'd say that's a good proportion of medallists!

Looks like we've got an amazing dressage horse as well. Missed the dressage today...got slightly interested in it a few years back when a friend who has no interest in horses at all phoned me up to say she'd seen a horse called Totilas on the telly winning dressage competition. This horse is being spoken of in the same breath as Totilas which makes him exceptional.

Anyone else watching the Triathlon, why is Hall no 8 not going for it she is trying to pull Jenkins through, she could go for Gold herself, I dont understand what her role is?

I was just thinking the same thing glassortwo Perhaps she has not got the running speed and Jenkins has, I don't know.
It is such a shame for the ones who crashed.
I do think that London looks great. It has got to look good for viewers around the world.

I have just been told bike is Jenkins weakness and Hall is trying to hold the pack back so she can keep up and then the run is her strength so hopefully she will then be in for a medal.

I bet they are scuffed to bits after coming off those bike in bathing costumes.

Race started Hall dropped back to 22nd but Jenkins is in the lead.