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Some readers answer these questions. Feel free to comment, add your own, join the debate...

1. Best moment
2. Biggest disappointment
3. One to watch for 2012
4. Best sportsman/woman
5. What London can learn from Beijing
6. What London should not do
7. Sport that should be dropped
8. Sport that should be added
9. Dustiest moment
10. Final word

First is Tom:

1. Best moment - Cooke winning the road race, and our first Gold ('always believe in...') It was the promise of what might follow. The worry was that it wouldn't, but follow it did. Emphatically.
2. Biggest disappointment – Britain's male track athletes; inevitable, with hindsight, but ultimately poor.
3. One to watch for 2012 - Me; or maybe the dartists...?
4. Best sportsman/woman – Bolt (but what a supporting cast from Team GB... I shouldn't use the word 'supporting'; we were brilliant. Phelps shmelps... his performance will mean more when running backwards, running sidewards (Bolt in the 100m excluded), and running with arms flailing all over the place over different distances are introduced as medal sports.
5. What London can learn from Beijing – Nothing. Don't be like Beijing; don't even try to copy, or top it. Do it in our own way.
6. What London should not do? Try to present it as a way of demonstrating superiority; make it inclusive.
7. Sport that should be dropped – Several candidates: tennis, football, beach volleyball (as per another commentator, there is a rule in Olympic beach volleyball about the maximum permitted size of the bikinis... surely this is wrong...), taekwondo, handball, basketball (unless they introduce an 'amateur only' rule)
8. Sport that should be added – Rugby sevens... and I'd go for darts
9. Dustiest moment – Michaela Breeze; the German weightlifter guy Steiner; and Reade... she epitomised the new attitude: I want gold or nothing... the British male athletes could learn a thing or two.
10. Final word – A great Olympics, but London 2012 is going to be better, not least because I'm going to be there. A lot.


Now Chris:

1. Best moment – Screaming at the tv as the GB Four overhauled Australia on the line
2. Biggest disappointment – The GB Womens Quad just missing out on gold. Gutted for them. Mens relay team – tw*ts.
3. One to watch for 2012 - Jason Kenny, Adlington obviously. Twakwondo boy.
4. Best sportsman/woman – The Bolt, The Real McHoy.
5. What London can learn from Beijing – Create lots of fanzones for everyone to enjoy.
6. What London should not do? Keep the sports fans away by pandering to corporate requirements
7. Sport that should be dropped – Baseball (already is)
8. Sport that should be added – 2020 creekit, More cycling events, Rugby 7’s
9. Dustiest moment – There’s about 47 of them! Plus the German weightlifter. The Russian and Georgians too.
10. Final word – Bring it on 27th July 2012. I have already registered to volunteer.

Here's my list:

1. Best moment – Nicole Cooke – where was she when they started the final climb into the finish, there she is, she’s gone past them, can she hold on…YES!!!!! What a celebration! Plus “I was born in Keirin”
2. Biggest disappointment – Shanaze crashing out – gutted for her, especially as I’d stayed up (no different to every other night though). The Athletics. My distinctly ambivalent feelings about Christine O winning – I know all the pros back her, but there’s a tiny dark inkling of something which I just can’t shake off about those 3 missed tests and her apparent utter lack of public remorse – stubbornly refusing to give the media (and I daresay the viewers) what they want.
3. One to watch for 2012 - the younger cyclists, male athletes who will hopefully be shamed into doing better.
4. Best sportsman/woman – His Royal Hoyness, his Boltness and his Phelpsness. Isinbaieva working the crowd as she beat her world record by 1 cm on the 3rd attempt.
5. What London can learn from Beijing – let the people in. what Pinsent said – almost word for word my spectators charter; recycle tickets as people leave venues.
6. What London should not do? Charge too much, have too much corp hospitality, bow down before the might of NBC when scheduling the finals.
7. Sport that should be dropped – Some of the many swimming events (unless we’re good at them, obv).
8. Sport that should be added – more cycling for the girls, rugby 7s
9. Dustiest moment – Cooke squeezing the life out of a frightened emma pooley, bryony shaw crying her eyes out, the Italian who won silver in the shooting, the Togolese winning bronze and snapping his oar, “the British are Coming”, but most of all Mathias Steiner, the German Weightlifter who won Gold for his ‘greatest love’ and held his gold medal and her photo rather tearfully on the top step of the podium. Read about it here - but brace yourselves before clicking…
10. Final word – CHRIS HOY for SPOTY & King – though will probably be big nose or Hamilton – if only for shoving the SNP firmly back in their box – “when we get proper investment in Scottish sport, maybe we can start thinking about having a scottish team…I’m a proud Scot and a proud Brit and the Olympics are about the GB”. Plus my own final word on the FiveLive phone-in with the stat about the medal table without medals involving judges – we were 3rd, the russkies 6th!