Will there be a national 'come-down' when the Games end?

[Bry Nylon]

After a slow start for team GB, and wrangles about empty seats etc, the Olympics just seem to have just got better and better, day by day by day.

I'll be the first to admit that I was an Olympic sceptic before they started, even to the point where I said I probably wouldn't even bother watching. I held out for week one, but by last Saturday night I was jumping up at the TV screen, screaming on gold after gold and finally went to bed emotionally shattered.

When I look around the country, I'm still not entirely sure if it was the best use of £10bn, but that's academic now. We've hosted the Olympics, made a pretty fair job of it, and we'll never have them here again in my lifetime.

And I do know I'm going to feel like something is missing when next Monday rolls around.

 

[Butch Willykins]

I agree. Luckily we are playing on Tuesday night.

 

[wellquickwoody]

I was all up for the Olympics originally. Great for prestige, great for the economy, feelgood factor etc etc. I still feel that overall it will be a good thing..........but I cannot wait for it to finish. Saturation media coverage has ruined it for me. Oh well........

 

[Notters]

If you only started watching on Saturday you missed most of the good stuff (imho). Athletics is tedious.

 

[leigull]

If you only started watching on Saturday you missed most of the good stuff (imho). Athletics is tedious.

Yeah the 45 minute spell of Ennis, Rutherford and Farrah was just mind numbingly boring wasn't it? I think I dozed off watching it

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

I'll be glad for the footie season to start now, getting a bit bored now all our medal hopes are done!

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

yeah will be back to scanning 100s of hours of crap tv looking for a decent documetry.

 

[terryberry1]

I'm going to lock myself in a dark room until the season starts

 

[grummitts gloves]

In terms of a lasting legacy, I was wandering how the various sports clubs around the country are coping with a rush of interest in new people joining, but not enough coaches or facilities to meet the demand? I appreciate that the initial interest may only be short term and then decrease, but if the government are so keen on youngsters joining sports clubs and the Olympics 'inspiring a nation', are they prepared to fund the new facilities and recruitment of coaches? Probably not.

 

[Notters]

Yeah the 45 minute spell of Ennis, Rutherford and Farrah was just mind numbingly boring wasn't it? I think I dozed off watching it

I was meaning after Saturday

 

[leigull]

I was meaning after Saturday

That's a relief! It was genuinely one of my favourite ever sporting moments

 

[Notters]

That's a relief! It was genuinely one of my favourite ever sporting moments

and me, loved the 10,000m. Just don't really get the appeal of 100m in comparison to the cycling, hockey, badminton, etc.

 

[redhill seagull 66]

i think the one hour of winning 3 golds on sat night will take some beating

 

[Worthai Seagull]

The worst thing about the end of the Olympics will be f***ing dreadful daytime TV ...and f***ing dreadful morning phone ins on Radio 5 ! Have to say Radio 5's coverage of the Olympics has been outstanding ...as has the TV !

 

[Stat Brother]

I guess it's the way you present it, Bry.

That'll learn me for being a miserable depressing bastard

What's going to happen when the endorphins run out...

 

[Bry Nylon]

It was genuinely one of my favourite ever sporting moments

Mine too, and probably because I just wasn't expecting it, or to get caught up by it.

What with a busy job, two young kids and everything else that comes with it, Saturday night, 7:30pm, was my first opportunity to actually sit down, open a cold beer and watch some Olympics. I started off mildly interested and ended up utterly transfixed. Frankly, I was expecting nothing other than some running and jumping as I hadn't been following the Games at all. But by the end I was shattered!

The best things come along when you least expect them. That night will live with me for a very, very long time indeed.

 

[GloryDays]

My Aussie friend tells me that after Sydney people needed counselling.

 

[ILIKECANDLES]

Not if you're welsh

 

[SeagullSongs]

I've been glued to the TV all week, and the only day I missed? Saturday.

I think the tabloids will be the first to instigate the doom and gloom once the games are over.
They should write more positive stuff about our althletes more often, giving the youth of today better role models.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

You'll have the Paralympics to watch.