Is anyone watching the Olympics?

[Caspin]

I'm mostly watching just the highlights at the moment as life is quite busy. I will try to watch the relay races live, though - all that scrabbling to keep hold of the baton makes it so much more tense!

I didn't mind the opening ceremony. Reading the reactions of people in other countries was quite entertaining at any rate. The cauldron was amazing. I understand why they are going to disassemble it so that all the countries can take home a chunk, but I wish the artist had made two so we could keep one here.

I feel a bit sorry for some of our athletes who were expected to get gold medals. To reach the top in your sport and be competing in the Olympics on home turf, only to then feel that you have to apologise to the nation for "only" getting silver or bronze seems crazy to me.