Found the road racing on BBC HD btw....

A Khazak winning the gold? Wow

Well with the exception of Mr McCartney - Hey Jude - oh really? ...............
Why oh why is he rolled out for every event, celebration and gathering?

As the opening strains started my ears started to bleed - ! I've done better renditions of it in the shower. No, didn't like.

Just an observation, but this home advantage thing isn't really working for us, is it?

First rule of GB in the Olympics: Never win a gold on Day One (same in Beijing, then we got going.......)

Yeh, fair point. It's the same with the consistently dismal performances in the early stages of the World Cup I guess. It's a funny strategy, I sometimes wonder if it's intention or if we really just cannot perform until we are on the back foot.

Got to say i enjoyed the road race yesterday and on a side note the UK looked fantastic around the downs .

Sun shining , people out on the route . Not a better place on the planet on a day like that .

Sadly I missed it, but where the team really frustrated by the others? I would have expected us to be more gracious in defeat rather than saying 'everyone was against us'... no shit, that's the point of competition, no?

The other teams didn't help but when the second group broke it was always going to be difficult .

Maybe a victim of their own success but still a fascinating race . Wouldn't have minded been sat outside one of those boozers yesterday afternoon in the sunshine watching the race and getting slowly pissed .

The perfect afternoon !

Agreed. I was in Riyadh.

Oh god I miss that sort of shit.

I miss waking up to a text from a mate; "The Alex. Midday. Sunshine. Leo Sayer."

Probably one of the greatest messages ever.

They must have upgraded the bells at St.Mary's if they can be heard in Southampton.

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Leo Slayer is cockney rhyming slang. A cockney is someone born within ear shot of the bells of St Mary-le-bow church, London.

Sorry I'm with you now. St. Mary's also happens to be the shit bit of Southampton where they dumped the new stadium.

It's still called a Leo Sayer. Regardless of where you are from.