London Olympics

[zeldabjr]

Anyone excited that the Olympics are starting?...I am...although I like the winter games better...these athletes are amazing to watch...wish them all the best...I'll surely be watching!

[Victim of Love]

Looking forward to the Opening Ceremonies tonight and all of the 'surprises' the Today Show crew have mentioned. Will especially follow gymnastics, esquestrian events and swimming but will most likely watch much more than that as time allows.

[Topkat]

I'm looking forward to seeing Sir Paul performing tonight!
I also like the diving & the gymnastic competitions Some of the events are boring to me, but I am very interested to see how Ryan Seacrest handles the hosting job. I think he will be fantastic. I do think NBC is trying him out for a spot on the NBC morning show. I'm not so sure that Ryan wants to move to NY though, but I'm sure he will be fun to watch!

[Koala]

Looking forward to see the Opening Ceremonies tonight, I 'm a huge Fan from the Olympia games, I see virtually every sport except synchronized swimming, artistic gymnastics,boxing, rhythmic gymnastics or wrestling, I do not like these sports so much.

[Brooke]

I will be watching anything with Michael Phelps in it if possible. I hope he gets at least 3 medals to make him the most decorated olympian. I think he's got a good contender in Ryan Lochte for some of his races.

The rest of it will be haphazard watching, whenever.

[Freypower]

I just watched the opening ceremony & the majority of it was awesome - a real celebration of British eccentricity & genius. I could have done without my husband asking was there any mention of Isambard Kingdom Brunel & when I said he was played by Sir Ken Branagh reciting Shakespeare 'why don't they celebrate achievement instead of someone who wrote something'. I thought this was grossly unfair, given that it turned out to be the only mention of Shakespeare in the show. I loved the LSO with Sir Simon Rattle & Rowan Atkinson. I was less impressed during the parade of nations when the camera kept cutting to the Australians. Yes, I GOT IT. I knew they were there. I didn't have to keep looking at them over & over again. It was good seeing Usain Bolt & Novak Djokovic as flag bearers though. I also thought Sir Steven Redgrave should have lit the flame rathat than passed it to the young hopefuls. They should have all done it together.

As for Sir Paul there was a sound glitch in the first verse of Hey Jude but it had me in tears (but so did Jerusalem, Bread of Heaven, etc).

Coverage of the Olympics here is so parochial, so obsessed with the Australians, that it will as always be difficult to watch & it will mostly be in the middle of the night for me but I will do my best.

[Midnight_Flyer]

i thought the opening ceremony of the olympics was fantastic, and at times emotional, i love how it depicted different eras of british life and Danny Boyle did an amazing job putting it all together