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1. Best moments: This is the same as for my dustiest moments really (filled this in back to front) but in summary, torch relay, torch entering the stadium, lapping the stadium and ultimately building the cauldron; all of the Team GB medals, particularly the ones which were a long time coming and/or multiple and/or career ending, e.g. Ennis, Farah, Grainger, Hoy, Pendleton. Jake Humphrey’s interview with Frank Skinner, comparing notes over what had made them cry and Jake saying: “the atmosphere in London is just incredible, call me dramatic but it really feels like this week the world has changed” AMAZING!!!! Being part of it, I was so proud to put my Games Maker uniform on each day and giving nearly 100 hours of my time, paying around £600 to interview, train and attend the whole thing felt like a privilege, something I will never forget.

2. Favourite athlete you’d never heard of before: I can’t remember life before the Olympics to be honest so I’m not sure who I hadn’t heard of before!

3. Favourite sportsman/sportswoman – Tough choice but for longevity I’ll go with Hoy for the boys then it’s Ennis for the girls for me.

4. Favourite performance – ah, so hard to pick but I’d say Grainger for her storming win, Ennis for her slamming of the Heptathlon and pretty much everything from the Veledrome! Oh and Farah, ah, ALL OF TEAM GB!!!!

5. Favourite medal - Non GB? All of Bolts, what a dude. Also David Boudia in the 10m Platfom Diving, mainly cos it WASN’T CHINA!!!

6. Favourite Team GB medal – ahh, so hard to pick just one! Hoy and Pendleton’s Keirin ones, Trott’s omnium one, both of Farah’s, Ennis’s and the double skulls girls, so unexpected Also, Tom Daley has to get a special mention, def the happiest Bronze Medal winner of the games, and deservedly so

7. Favourite bit of punditry- Clare Balding for me, absolute star. She so clearly loved every minute of it, her Twitter commentary along the way was ace too, she was as humunahed as we were. Also really liked Thorpe and HEARTED Cav, bless him, blates the only cyclist in Team GB without a medal?:(

8. Favourite venue – Gotta be the Olympic Stadium, walking in and feeling the warmth of the cauldron and the roar of the crowd for Team GB is something I will never forget. BT Live comes a close second for me though, amazing atmosphere every time, excellent use of confetti canons on the main screen at the point of every GB gold

9. Favourite thing you witnessed live & direct (if any) – Mo Farah’s 5k win from Hyde Park, EVERYone around us was up on their feet jumping and screaming for his entire last lap, INCREDIBLE atmosphere, likewise for the velodrome golds. Also taking the Hyatt boys to Hyde Park on Super Saturday and witnessing 3 golds in less than an hour at Eton Dorney with a red/white/blue confetti canon going off each time, Thomas Hyatt bouncing around: “WE’RE AT THE LIMPICS!!”; Unadulterated support for Cav and the team in the last few km of the Men’s Road Race, despite being 57 seconds behind at Fulham, it really felt like our cheers could help him get into medal position. Seeing Ennis break her record in the hurdles was pretty special too. Not quite live and direct but I missed my train home on Men’s Tennis Final day so was able to watch Murray storm to victory on my phone. As he played the last few points, I realised that there were loads of pockets of people around me huddled around phones and iPads doing the same as me. As he aced that last point, everyone cheered around me then the tanoy announced his gold and the whole station roared, amazing

10. Favourite stat (made up or real)- Andy Murray at his peak fitness can run the 400m in 49 seconds – Mo’s last 400 after 9600m run was 43 seconds.

11. Favourite Redgrave Hug – Grainger and the 2 silver boys he practically lifted out of the boat. Hoy of course too

12. Face of the Games: Mo Farah, particularly his expression as crossing the line and Tom Daley

13. Mathias Steiner Saharan award for Dust – gotta be Hoy for me, particularly when he was interviewed in the studio afterwards saying it was his allergies acting up whilst on the podium – LEGEND!

14. Your dustiest moments – oh god, the whole bloody thing, I felt hungover every day due to loss of fluids! Every Team GB gold and medal ceremony. The whole lighting of the torch by stars of the future then the nations coming together in one giant torch (choking as I write this). The rings coming together at the beginning of the ceremony, amazing. Chris Hoy winning his last medal, Jessica Ennis striding to victory in her last event. EVERY BBC montage throughout the event, particularly the one at the end in the build-up to the closing ceremony with Reggie Yates talking about the community spirit in London; and the one before the Opening Ceremony detailing the journey of the torch, HUMUNAHHH!

15. Derek Redmond Limping award for Bravery – she wasn’t limping per se but that Syrian (I think, some other repressed country maybe *ignorance face*) who was in the 800m I think it was. She came over a lap behind everyone else but was grinning the whole time then when being interviewed afterwards, she couldn’t stop grinning, she was so proud to be there representing her country, way gorge

Ed's note: it was Sarah Attar, the Californain Saudi

16. One to watch in 2016 Johnson Thompson in the heptathlon, Adam Gemili in the sprints – he’s no Bolt but considering he only started running in January this year, 3rd in the semi-final was pretty impressive! All the young veledrome cyclists, they were amazing! Tom Daley too. Is this limited to GB? If not, I’d put Blake in here too.

17. Best Celebration: Tom Daley and the double skulls girls. Andy Murray too, climbing into the crowd and saying afterwards, he’d always dreamed of doing that after watching his heroes do it when he was younger. Also, that lovely girl boxer who when asked what she would do to celebrate replied “Ah, I just wanna go to Nandos”, haha!

18. Best quote: girl from the double skulls “We won the Olympics” and Hoy’s mum in the audience of the Keirin after watching through split fingers as he crossed the line: “Thank god for that”; Mr De Clos as quoted by Lily Allen on Twitter allegedly said after De Clos beat Phelps: “Wow, that’s it, I can die happy now”

19. Villain: Japanese gymnasts in the Men’s Team event, that aussie bitch who pushed Pendleton, Farah’s mardy wife, Trevor Nelson in the Opening Ceremony – SHUT UP MAN. Twitter trolls.

My magic moments

These do change a bit, but at the moment they are:

1. Best moments: All of it! In particular,

• the look of blissful happiness & joy on the face of Grainger,
• Mike Costello's commentary on the last few metres of the 5000m - "his face, a mask of pain",
• Andy Murray hugging the random kid after thrashing Fed,
• the radio commentary when Skelton knocked down the penultimate fence - quide liderally as the commentator uttered the word "GOLD",
• the extraordinary drama of that 47 minutes on the middle Saturday,
• Kirani James swapping his number with Oscar Pistorius,
• the old man in Yorkshire who sent the Brownlees congratulatory letters & a tenner each,
• the teenager from Guam who finished 13 minutes back in the 10km open water swim, then got a standing ovation which he couldn't see, as he'd lost his prescription goggles in the Serpentine!

2. Favourite athlete you’d never heard of before: David Rudisha - what a senasational 800m, the athletic performance of the games. Hoping for the 400m match up between him & Bolt!

3. Favourite sportsman/sportswoman - Sportswoman: The lovely Laura Trott - "I'm glad the crowd were roaring me home coz me legs were killing me"

Sportsman: Ben Ainslie for the absolute force of will he imposed on a regatta he was losing to scrape the Gold in the final race. Gargantuan.

4. Favourite performance - Being at Park Live to watch Trott win the Elimination race with the crowd getting into it was pretty special, but the Triathlon was amazing - only saw the last leg but Alistair Brownlee ran at an incredible pace to drop everyone else and get his brother into a medal winning position, even with the 15 second penalty.

5. Favourite medal - Non GB?

• Being pipped in the lightweight 4s by the saffers, who had the first black rower to win a medal in their boat.
• Another good one was the Guatemalan race walker who won their first ever medal, then used the platform as a plea for his nation's youth to stop the violence.
• For schadenfreude, has to be Bauge's silvers - though should have been gold for the amount of whinging!

6. Favourite Team GB medal - Probably Katherine Grainger, but all the cyclists as well!

7. Favourite bit of punditry- Cav in the Velodrome was comedy gold.
"So Cav, can you explain the elimination race to us?"
"Well, it's a race and people get eliminated every few laps"

8. Favourite venue - Greenwich Park & Horseguards - what settings! In the Olympic Park, The Box that Rocks was very cosy as well.

9. Favourite thing you witnessed live & direct (if any) - Finale to the Pentathlon - the roar which greeted Sam Murray when she came into the arena in silver position on the final lap of the Modern Pentathlon - what must it have been like at the stadium!

Also the Korean bloke being tackled at the handball - you had to be there really but it was very funny.

10. Favourite stat (made up or real)-

• Mo ran 50 laps of that track
• Bolt did under 100 seconds of work all week
• Brownlee's 10k was 90 seconds slower than Mo's, and he had slowed to a walk by the end
• The Iranian weightlifter with the same number of letters in his surname as Phelps has Gold medals.

11. Favourite Redgrave Hug - So many! At the rowing, the consoling one for Purchase & Hunter and the celebratory one, on behalf of the nation, for Kath Grainger who barely escaped alive.

Away from the rowing, popping up in the mix zone to hug it out and pass on the mantle to Chris Hoy

12. Face of the Games Ennis & Farah - a superb stick in the eye for the haters!

13. Mathias Steiner Saharan award for Dust -

• Obviously Gemma Gibbons, Tom Daley, Sarah Stevenson for doing what they did with recent and not so recent breavement to contend with.
• Felix Sanchez sobbing his heart out on the podium,
• a red eyed Hoy,
• Pendleton's tears of joy that she was finally finished with the sport she'd been cursed to be so good at.
• And poor old Nick Skelton - too stiff upper lipped himself for dust mind you, but one fence down in 5 rounds, but it was the last one, and the 4 clears didn't count, so he went from Gold to 4th.
• Purchase & Hunter

14. Your dustiest moments -

• That incredible torch-lighting
• The boys in the 470 capsizing in celebration as they got silver, then jumping in to celebrate with the Aussie winners, while both sets of parents hugged on the headland
• Walking into Olympic Park for the first & only time, and hearing a huge roar go up from the stadium - turned out a Brit had qualified for the discus final!
• The commentary highlight reels, especially after the event!

15. Derek Redmond Limping award for Bravery -

• Merve Aydin, the Turkish 800m runner, who limped around to finish on a sprained ankle.
• I suppose the American - but I don't believe he had a properly broken leg!
• Steiner himself for dropping the weights on himself when going for the big one.

16. One to watch in 2016 - Laura Trott in the cycling, Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the heptahlon

17. Best Celebration -

• Hard to argue with Jade Jones flinging her head protector in the air when she won Gold.
• Also liked the sailing boys,
• Daley getting thrown in,
• Bolt doing the Mobot,
• the hurdling discus champion,
• the canoeists all jumping in,
• "we're going to be on a stamp"
• Gold Postboxes
• ...

18. Best quote: "Thanks Dad" - 5Live had a reporter with Pa Hoy, and they got him talking to Chris. He was so proud, and Chris's simple reply was just the bollocks. Fantastic - instant tears from Dads across the land!

19. Villain -

• That cock of a Tory MP who tweeted his dislike of the opening ceremony because it was too multicultural,
• Pedantic rules appliers - rules are rules and all that, but read the script first guys!
• David Bond for his relentless negativity in the first few days.
• KP for his attention-seeking idiocy!

Chris's Magic moments

1. Best moments: Too many! The general feelgood atmosphere around the place. Team GB medals, Daley being delighted with Bronze and being chucked in pool. The way we got excited about dressage etc etc.

2. Favourite athlete you’d never heard of before: German discus thrower. Celebrated Gold by ripping his shirt and doing a lap of honour including jumping the womens 100m hurdles down the wrong way in celebration.

3. Favourite sportsman/sportswoman - Chris Hoy. Just a legend. So humble with it too. Fantastic performance in keirin. Wiggo - just for being cool!

4. Favourite performance - All of Team GB in the velodrome 10 events, 7 gold, 1 silver (unfairly penalised too) and 1 bronze and a disqualification when would have won something! The ICF tried to change the rules to stop us being so dominant. Think again!

5. Favourite medal - Non GB? Jamaica 4 x100 relay men (coz I was there)

6. Favourite Team GB medal - Katherine Grainger and Ben Ainslie.

7. Favourite bit of punditry. Ian Thorpe. "Look... "

8. Favourite venue - All of them were brilliant but has to be Beach Volleyball. To be sitting there high in the stands and looking out with Big Ben to the right, Whitehall to the left, Buck House and St J's Park behind and the London Eye and Shard in front was special. As was Greenwich Park with the Cutty sark, Canary Wharf and the Royal Naval College laid out in front. All of them showed London off to be amazing.

9. Favourite thing you witnessed live & direct (if any) - Has to be Saturday night in the stadium. Mo Farah 5000m. Incredible noise. Incredible atmosphere. Everyone united in delight! Couldnt stop shaking afterwards.

10. Favourite stat (made up or real). Yorkshire winning more Golds than Australia! That we won more medals across more sports than anyone else (I think)

11. Favourite Redgrave Hug - Purchase and Hunter. Incredible tv to see the big man lifting Hunter out of the boat followed up by Invers in tears.

12. Face of the Games - Jess of course and she delivered. Super stuff

13. Mathias Steiner Saharan award for Dust - Gemma Gibbons on winning her semi final and mouthing I love you Mum to her mum that died 7 years ago

14. Your dustiest moments - When the rings came together at the Opening ceremony (seeing live at rehearsal did make me well up), Lighting of the torrch. In action: Kath Grainger finally winning Gold, Super Saturday Part 1, Mo on Super Saturday Part 2, Purchase and Hunter.

15. Derek Redmond Limping award for Bravery - American fella that broke his leg and carried on running in 4 x 400.

16. One to watch in 2016 - Cav back in the velodrome!

17. Best Celebration - Jade Jones flinging her head protector in the air when she won Gold. Pure unbridled joy.

18. Best quote: Slightly ditzy Kat Copeland on unexpectedly winning Lightweight Double Sculls. "We've won the Olympics. We're going to be on a stamp!"

19. Villain - The Commisaires in the Velodrome. Anna Mears for blatant push on Pendo! David Bond, BBC News Sport editor for being a dick.

Those medals in full

Here they are: Team GB Medals

Magic Moments Time

Here is this Olympiad’s questionnaire – feel free to suggest additional questions or give multiple answers or not answer everything!

1. Best moments

2. Favourite athlete you’d never heard of before

3. Favourite sportsman/sportswoman

4. Favourite performance

5. Favourite medal

6. Favourite Team GB medal

7. Favourite bit of punditry

8. Favourite venue

9. Favourite thing you witnessed live & direct (if any)

10. Favourite stat (made up or real)

11. Favourite Redgrave Hug

12. Face of the Games

13. Mathias Steiner Saharan award for Dust

14. Your dustiest moments

15. Derek Redmond Limping award for Bravery

16. Favourite Celebration

17. One to watch in 2016

Day 16, Sobbing Sunday, 12th August, Modern Pentathlon

The dreaded last day How were we going to cope without this most marvellous of events happening in our city? I suppose we have the Paralympics to look forward to, though no tickets yet, then Rio 2016 to start saving for. But in the meantime, there was one more event to go to, the last 2 events of the Modern Pentathlon, something we have done well in since its introduction at Sydney 2000 when Steph Cooke won GOLD.

I started the day by taking B to Tooting Bec lido, as we'd heard via Twitter that Ian Thorpe wanted to do his bit for the legacy and was going to be giving swimming advice out to anyone who turned up. There was no sign of him when we got there, but the place was pretty busy - mainly with people who were doing their usual Sunday swim, but after about half an hour and a dip in the unheated pool, he arrived. There was quite a crowd, and he presented a trophy to someone from the swimming club, then signed some autographs and exchanged a bit of banter, with me telling him, on behalf of the nation, that he was an excellent pundit & should come back & take over from Lineker. B heard him talking about Brazil, and from her perch on my shoulders told him that her mummy was from brazil - he looked up at her and said that she looked like her mummy was from Brazil, before exchanging some pleasantries in Portuguese! She clammed up completely at this!

At this point we were invited through, with a handful of other small kids, to have our swimming lesson with him - but for some reason B had a complete emotional breakdown and refused to go in the pool, wanted to give up swimming & swimming lessons for ever etc. I have no idea what brought this on, and it was only once I said we could go, after trying in vain to persuade her to join in, that she stopped crying. How do you explain to a 6 year old what an amazing opportunity she was passing up? On our way out of the place she said that she didn't know what had come over her, and was very sorry - but wouldn't go back!

On the way home we stopped at Sainsbury's to buy some Team GB t-shirts for her & H, as well as some other half-price Team GB tat - those nectar points finally coming in handy so that these items were essentially actually FREE! Then we had a quick lunch before heading for Greenwich, getting there pretty easily via Lewisham & the DLR.

On the way down from the station to the park, B & H went for the world record for the number of high fives they could get from volunteers wearing foam hands. On arrival at the park itself, it turned out that there was a viewing village with a big screen & extortionate food stalls - not very well advertised (perhaps hence the nice atmosphere!) - one for the Paralympics if it's still there! We got through security easily where, once again, I was able to take my water, this time in a metal flask which was detected. The marine checking the bag just asked me to drink a bit from it rather than chuck it all away - another example of common sense prevailing which the airports could certainly learn from.

The venue was fantastic - the show-jumping arena was set up with 3 stands with the fourth side being the Royal Maritime Museum with Canary Wharf & Docklands behind. We sat about half way up one of the stands, and this was the view:

As probably befits the image of Equestrian, this was by far the poshest venue we've been at - the music was solidly of the Radio 2 variety, and the announcer was very good, inviting us to "contain our emotion" when the horses were about - we practiced keeping quiet, applauding discreetly, and having a sharp intake of breath - and there was mercifully no sign of We Will Rock You anywhere. One of the GB girls was in 3rd, and I immediately assumed it was Mhari Spence, the World Champion, but she was actually in 10th, and it was Sam Murray, bronze medallist from the European championships, who held our best medal hopes.

Unfortunately for me, little Mr H was a bit of a nightmare - not wanting to sit still (surprisingly for a 2 year old...NOT), yelling if he couldn't sit and play on the steps, and with the requests for quiet when the horses were on, we were very aware of any disturbance he might have been creating for the others around us. We were rescued by one of the volunteers who moved the kids & me down to the very front of the stands, where there were other young kids, and more space, and, ironically given how much closer we were to the action, more noise, so it wasn't so bad. The Gabster stayed firmly ensconsed at the top of the stand, enjoying a bit of downtime from the kids...!

Here are the Team GBrazil supporters!

I like the Modern Pentathlon, as from a schadenfreude point of view, the equestrian bit can be highly entertaining. It's the one variable the competitors can't control. The way it works is that they are allocated a horse at random by lot, that horse is used twice, and they only have 20 mins and 3 jumps to get used to each other. It's supposed to test the riding skills rather than the horse, and the fences looked fairly low.

I know it's unkind, and quite possibly we're watching a lifetime's ambition going up in smoke, but I defy you not to laugh or at least stifle a grin when a rider goes over a fence hanging on to the horse's neck for dear life, or sprints after it having been thrown off. It's funny! I did feel bad for them when fences were refused though, and the crowd got to use our aforementioned intake of breath.

This was where Mhari Spence's hopes were shattered, as she had drawn a huge & very feisty looking horse who gave her a hell of a time. There was actually only one clear round, so maybe the heat had got to the horses.

Once they had all finished the equestrian, the fences were removed and a track was marked out for the final event. The points totals were converted into a time handicap, and everyone started according to this. Hence our best hope was 8 seconds back. This makes it all very exciting as you then know that the first person over the line is the overall winner - imagine how cool that would be in other multi-event disciplines?!

They have now combined the shooting event with the final 3000m cross country part, so the athletes start at the handicapped intervals, run straight to the shooting range, hit 5 targets, run 1000m, calm down enough to hit another 5, run another 1000m, hit their last 5 targets, then it's 1000m to GOLD! This means you have 2 chances to get past people - on the track by being faster or on the range by being steadier. By the time they were round for the second shoot, the crowd had figured out the scoreboard & were counting down the shots.

When Murray was really close on the 3rd circuit, the roar increased as each target was hit, and when she went past the Brazilian into Silver position as they were running out of the stadium for the last time, the place erupted! She still had to stay in front though, and when she came back into the stadium a few minutes later in second place, the roar was amazing. She was never going to catch the Lithuanian, but she had to stay in front. On the tv footage you can see the Gabster and I jumping up and down, bringing home our respective compatriots. It was a very exciting end to the final event in the Olympics.We hung around for the medal ceremony & celebrations, then made our way slowly away.

On the way out I stopped for a chat with one of the volunteers, as I was curious about the water in the sinks in the loos. There was a "not drinking water" label on them which I hadn't seen anywhere else, (and ignored anyway), and the lady revealed a few things: the label hadn't been there the previous week, the plumbing hadn't been changed, and Games water seller COCA-COLA HAD PUT THEIR FOOT DOWN AFTER LOW WATER SALES IN THE FIRST WEEK TO GET THE STICKER PUT THERE!! I expressed my outrage by filling my bottles from the nearest sink. Beware of this ruse if you're going to the Paralympics.

Here's Sam, on the last lap, racing for Silver, with the Brazilian girl gaining on her all the time, but not quite enough to get in shot!

Sam Murray, Modern Pentathlon, SILVER

On the way out we got a picture of my Olympic family next to the rings, then faffed about a bit by the big screen before heading for the chippy.

I guess we'll see!

We ate our fish and chips down by the river, next to the Cutty Sark, as a lone and quite decent busker played Britpop nearby and the sun went down on the most fantastic fortnight many of us will ever see in London.

Then it was home for the Closing Ceremony, watched on delay, where my main disappointment was that Take That didn't sing Relight my Fire as the flame went out. It was nowhere near as good as the Opening, or the two weeks that followed, but it wasn't that bad either, and I enjoyed it well enough.

Turns out I was on telly a few times that afternoon, in the Thorpe piece as well as at the event, so you can add that to the footage of the Badminton finals in Athens! Haven't quite summoned the courage to watch the final 90 minute montage programme yet, but have got the nightly radio highlights recorded on my phone, and that's dusty enough!

Elsewhere during the day we still had a couple more chances in the boxing, and I didn't see or hear either of them. The first guy, Fred Evans, ran out of steam in the final and was well beaten. The second one, the Super Heavyweight, was a tighter affair, which may only have been won in the 3rd round when Joshua got some big shots in. The score was tied and Joshua won on countback. The Italians protested, and there was some tension for a while before the protest was rejected and our last GOLD of the game was confirmed. 29 of them! Here's hoping that Joshua's career follows the path of Lennox Lewis, as opposed to Audley Harrison.

Fred Evans, Boxing, SILVER

Anthony Joshua, Boxing, GOLD

Day 15, Super Duper Saturday, 11th August

Another fine sunny day for a goldrush, and today was all about the boxing, diving & athletics. But wait, what's this new event? 200m Canoe Sprint? And we have the Usain Bolt of canoeing? Excellent news! Around 9.30 I snuck away from the washing up and turned the telly on to watch Ed McKeever. These blokes are huge! Most of them in vests with their huge guns glistening in the morning sun, but our man was in a long sleeved skinsuit which somehow emphasised his size even more. I was terrified!

The 50m races in the pool always look a bit comic, a lot of wacky races splashing, where the comedy value rather outweighs the appreciation of the skill required. It wasn't the case in the 200m sprint, the paddles whir away impressively and the kayaks are propelled through the water at impressive speed - and we won!

It was as exciting as such a short race can be, he made his trademark fast start and stayed in front. It didn't look like he won it by much, but the commentators told us that in canoe sprint terms, this was a proper thrashing. I quite enjoyed it when they asked him afterwards about being the Bolt of the water - rather than shrug it off with that oh so British reserve, he said that now he had the GOLD to back up the comparison!

Ed McKeever, 200m Canoe Sprint, GOLD

A bit later the pairs race went out where our guys weren't expected to gold, but had a good chance of medalling and podiuming. A fine effort saw them bronze. I was amused to hear Pinsent & Cracknell grumbling that the canoeists got to stand on an actual podium rather than merely the jetty to receive their medals.

Liam Heath & Jon Scofield, 200m Canoe Sprint, BRONZE

We then had a party to go to in the afternoon, someone clearly having missed the memo that all social interactions that do not involve sport or big screens are cancelled for the duration. H did us a favour by sleeping until midway through the first half if the football, the GOLD above all others that Brazil are desperate to win, never having done so. In 96 they were knocked out by a sensational strike from Kanu in golden goal extra time, having led 2-0. Last time they were knocked out in the semi by archrivals Argentina, who went on to win it.

As is frequently the case in the UK media, the assumption is that whenever Brazil play they are favourites. However, Mexico had beaten them in a warm up match, on several occasions in the last few years, and were no longer intimidated or afraid of them.

I saw the first 10 minutes & the last 15 mins (the party had a telly and someone else was already watching it! Result!!), and saw 2 Mexican goals (the first inside 29 seconds), 1 Brazilian one then a clear header deep into injury time which was missed! GOLD for Mexico, another failure for Brazil - judging by the reaction from by Brazilian mates on facebook this was a shocking & disgraceful performance. I prefer to think that the second saturday of August, 4 years from now, at Maracana is already the hottest ticket of the games & the place to be.

Party duties then took over so I missed the boxing medal, but it was another GOLD.

Luke Campbell, Boxing, GOLD

At around 1915 people started to gather in front of the telly in anticipation of Mo at 1939. We were still watching the volleyball, and the Gabster was making a brave if futile effort to convince people to watch it..I was recording it at home to watch as live later, so at half past we turned over.

The race started out very cagily - 70 second laps, very slow. The Kenyans & Ethiopians tried to control it and mess around with the rhythm but Mo essentially ignored them, as he had in the 10000m, and ran his own race. Eventually the pace started to quicken and he moved to the front then hit the front.

My brother Chris was there, jammy git, and said, as did pretty much every commentator & journo, that he'd never experienced anything like it. There was a Mexican Roar which followed the Athletes around the track. As it went into the last few laps the tension was mounting with every stride. My palms were sweating, I was on the edge of my seat, shouting a mixture of instructions, advice & gibberish at the telly. Steve Cram was ramping it up, Mo was ramping it up, Mike Costello on the radio was ramping it up, the Ethiopian was ramping it up. But somehow Mo found another gear, and with, in Mike Costello's excellent commentary (which I listened to later), "his face a mask of pain", he kicked again & stayed out in front & it was his second GOLD.

By this stage I had the shakes - a real physical reaction to an amazing performance, and it took several minutes to calm down.

Mo Farah, 5000m, GOLD

All that was left for us, apart from a Jamaican world record in the 4x100m relay, won following a brilliant 3rd bend leg by Yohan Blake, and Bolt doing the Mobot as he crossed the line, was Tom Daley.

I was largely listening to this on the radio, as the Gabster was watching the volleyball final. My friend Giules had been at the final and had inadvertently let me know the result, so I already knew that the unforuntatley named Destinee Hooker was to emerge GOLDless once more, and that Brazil would win it.

Anyway, radio commentary on diving is quite bizarre, as you hear the take off, the splash, the reaction.

His first dive was a shocker, and he looked out of the medals from the off. Having scraped through qualifying, it didn't look good. But as he came out of the water, he and his coach made some signals to each other which added up to them getting a redive - on account of Tom having been put off by the flash photography. On his second attempt he nailed it, and the competion was off.

Tactically, Daley likes to hit his toughest dives early, to put pressure on the others, and it was the same story here. Approaching the last few rounds, one of the Chinese guys cocked it up, so Daley was in postion to win a medal. Going into the final round, he was in GOLD position, but the degree of difficulty on his final dive wasn't as tough as the 2 ahead of him, so he needed them to go wrong for him to stay in Gold. He also needed to nail his own dive.

By this time, the volleyball had finished, so we watched on the telly, as Tom first nailed his dive, then the other 2 nailed theirs, and it was BRONZE. The reaction was fantastic - all the Diving Squad threw him back into the water and jumped in to join him - they were great scenes, and showed just how delighted they and he were with that medal. After the year he's had, with the death of his dad, the public criticism from the coach, the promo work, the face of the games stuff with all the associated pressure, and still being only 18, this was a highly impressive perfomance. Well done!

Tom Daley, 10m Platform Diving, BRONZE