I wasn’t just indifferent to the Olympics during the build up to it, I actually felt quite negative about it. I didn’t have any faith that it would be any good. Then I watched the opening ceremony (after the event as I was working at the time) and was completely blown away.

Olympics Day 8: British athletics' gold medal winners. Taken from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/

Yesterday was one of the best Saturdays I can remember. Great Britain had it’s best Olympic day for over a hundred years. I’m not much of a sports fan but I was incredibly happy. Fantastic day.

Today we’ve had Ben Ainslie winning a gold medal and making British Olympic history and Andy Murray has beaten Roger Federer to get gold, with his defeat to Federer in the Wimbledon final just 4 weeks ago seemingly forgotten. What a proud weekend for the British!