This might be a touchy subject for some as the Australian Gold medal haul was somewhat less than expected especially in the swimming events.
I have always loved watching the best in human endeavour and the Olympic Games sums this up superbly. Yes some countries spend an enormous amount of money to hopefully get the glory but despite this the athletes have to perform on the day, and perform they did.
I watched events every night for the last 17 days on the 8 Fox sports channels & loved every minute of it. It was good to be able to watch events other than those featuring Australia which was a welcome change from Beijing when we only had channel 9.
All the criticism of things not being ready, (cabbies strikes, poor ticket sales, airport holdups etc) were well & truly put to bed. There were stuff-ups during events but generally it ran very well & the London historical scenery and grandeur is hard to ignore. They did it well and I take my hat of to Seb Coe & Boris Johnson for their stewardship of a team of thousands.
The last 2 Olympic Games had nothing on Sydney. The London Olympics may not have earned the title of "Best Games Ever" but I reckon they were.
The opening ceremony was spell binding with so many different things including Mr Bean. The medal presentations with the "Chariots of Fire" theme in the background were regal and understated.
It was the closing ceremony that did it for me. The worlds biggest pop & rock concert spanning 50 years of the best in British music (except the Rolling Stones). To see Brian May & lastly Roger Daltrey & Pete Townshend was simply superb let alone the multitude of others like Annie Lennox, George Michael , & Eric Idle doing his Monty Python best with tributes to John Lennon, Freddie Mercury & others. Jessie J & New Direction kept it all going to the present day
Yes Sydney was great but this was better.
