London 2012 (no spoilers please)

Well, we're nearly there, im beside myself with excitement cant wait for the games to start and already enjoying the build up.

Anyone else looking forward to the games, what events are you looking forward to, who will you be shouting support for?

Have you got tickets for anything?

Im mostly looking forward to:

Road races
Time Trials
Triathlon
Swimming
Athletics
Open water swimming
Track cycling

Will try and watch as much as I can, maybe a bit of archery, equestrian (Grenwich backdrop looks fab)

I had actually forgotten about the OW swimming  !!     I usually try to 


I do like the Equestrian games as well as all of the above

I just cant wait, off the back of last weekend this is going to be a fab few weeks  !!!

Meldy, I agree, the last 3 weeks of TDF and especially Sunday really wet the appetite.

Wiggins, Cav, Froome, Millar (dont know so much about Stannard), what a road race team

Womens team for Sunday has potential to with Pooley and Nicole Cooke

I'm getting totally excited about the whole thing and the prophets of doom and gloom are really getting on my nerves.

We've tickets for the diving, tennis finals, canoe sprint & a football semi-final.  Apart from the tennis none of these are really sports I'd usually watch but I can't wait to be there.

Apart from that I want to watch the athletics, cycling and the horsey stuff.  That said I'll kind of watch anything that's on.

Bouncing Barlist wrote (see)

Meldy, I agree, the last 3 weeks of TDF and especially Sunday really wet the appetite.

And the last 45 seconds was edge of the seat stuff!

As for the Olympics - don't have tickets but have 10 days off work (well I quit my job technically), and plan to become a couch potato and watch every minute of it (apart from daily training between the morning and afternoon sessions)

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Bouncing Barlist wrote (see)

Meldy, I agree, the last 3 weeks of TDF and especially Sunday really wet the appetite.

And the last 45 seconds was edge of the seat stuff!

As for the Olympics - don't have tickets but have 10 days off work (well I quit my job technically), and plan to become a couch potato and watch every minute of it (apart from daily training between the morning and afternoon sessions)

Wasnt it just, after they came out of the tunnel and Wiggins put the power down at the front with 1km to go, that was class

going to the ladies hockey and to the athletics one evening... can't wait, very excited.

Come on team GB!

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I have got some bunting and a Team GB flag to put round my desk at work from Friday (I delayed just to be clear it wasn't for the recent football!). Lots of eyeball rolling from my colleagues. I have also got some of those flag things you can put on your wing mirrors - though haven't sussed them out yet. 

Love it

I need to get some flags

Princess Leah - if you have an iPhone or Android phone, there is an official London 2012 app

iPhone

Android 

Looking forward to it, will have to set the SkyPlus for most of it though.

A bit of and Ooops moment yesterday with the N/S Korean flag mix up!

Anyone got party plans fro the opening ceremony? Time to crack out the beers and bunting.

We are off to a friends house extension (and olympic) opening parry on Friday night.

I imagine event organisers are double checking their flags this morning.

What a disgraceful and embarrassing cock up that was.

me and Petal are volunteers for the duration of the Games so get to see them from a different angle. we don't have event tickets and can't get into any, but will take adavantage of the fact that we can access the Olympic Park at any time with our passes so can soak in the atmosphere there if needed and watch events on the big screens around the park.   

we will be working 10hr shifts when on duty so will miss some key stuff sadly but we get days off as well so can take advantage of our passes to the full then

I didn't get any tickets (the bast***s) - so was pretty hacked off. So instead I've invested in a freeview HD box which gets iplayer as well as being able to record 2 HD channels simultaneously. So hopefully I should get to watch loads - there are 22 BBC channels for the Olympics apparently!!

Had an email from my swim club coach today, he was at the Opening Ceremony rehearsal last night and its apparently something that shouldnt be missed.