My Olympic review:
Top 5 moments - GB05 - "Super" Saturday Athletics
It was probably the point where the Olympics peaked for Team GB and the public too, with three golds in less than 45 minutes. One expected, one hoped and one which there was no clear favourite at all. Added to the three gold medals won earlier in the day it went down as one of the best days (if not the best) in British sporting history.
04 - Katherine Copeland & Sophie Hosking
If only for the reaction. After the men's four won the gold medal once again it wasn't long before the next one followed in the women's lightweight double skulls, however this one wasn't expected, yet it was a fairly easy win for the pair. The reactions (particularly of Copeland) said it all "We've won the Olympics. We're going to be on a STAMP!"
03 - Mo Farah
Completing the double last night was the perfect end to the Athletics for GB, he ran the perfect race and managed to win despite looking like he'd be overtaken. It was real heart-in-mouth stuff but he captured the imagination of the public with one of the greatest athletics doubles of all time.
02 - Track cycling domination
It's always been my favourite thing to watch in the Olympics, and I was gutted I wasn't able to get tickets for it. To watch GB continue the domination they showed in Beijing was incredible winning 7 of the 10 golds on offer, along with a silver, a bronze, and a world record set in the only event we didn't medal. The atmosphere was electric, the talent on display sensational, and the omnium one of the greatest events to watch in any sport. It's hard to pick one moment, Hoy winning a 6th gold medal, Trott delivering in the omnium, Kenny beating Borges or the world records set in team pursuits. There's always something extra satisfying in p*ssing off the French and the Aussies too.
01 - Bradley Wiggins
Winning the Tour de France was an exceptional sporting achievement in itself, to try and help Cavendish to an Olympic medal and then do the time trial so soon after, and blowing everyone else away, was utterly phenomenal. But that's not it. The fact that he's one of the coolest men on the planet, the medal made him the most decorated British Olympian of all time and really confirmed we'd arrived, it being GBs second gold medal of the day, and overall, really helped kickstart the rush. Definitely my favourite moment of the games.
Just missing: Kath Grainger, Nicola Adams, Ben Ainslie, Gemma Gibbons, Brownlee's, Christine Ohuruogu
Top 5 moments - non-GB05 - 4x100m freestyle relay
The swimming is always entertaining, but it didn't really get much better than the men's 4x100m freestyle relay. With Jones, Adrian, Phelps and Lochte in the US team they were expected to win the Australians their nearest challengers. When Ryan Lochte took over the last leg over half a second infront it looked like game over, but an incredible swim from Yannick Agnel meant the gold medal went to the French.
04 - Ruta Meilutyte
As good and surprising as the relay may have been, it didn't quite top 15 year old Ruta Meilutyte winning the Women's 100m breaststroke. No one expected it, not even her, you could tell from her reaction and her interview where she was completely speechless. It made a refreshing change to see a sports person achieve something incredible who'd clearly had no real media training.
03 - David Rudisha
The first world record to be beaten on the track, the 800m was one of the most incredible races I've ever watched, with Rudisha going for it straight from the off and taking the rest of the field with him, culminating in him beating the World Record leading the race from start to finish and 6 of the other 7 also setting personal best time. The Brit Andrew Osagie finished last but ran the fastest he'd ever ran, and finished in a time which would've won the gold medal four years ago.
02 - Usain Bolt & the Jamaican sprint team
They were always the main attraction of the Olympics and they proved why. An exceptional gold for Bolt in the 100m, topped by a 1-2-3 in the 200m, before thrashing the World Record in the 4x100m relay. Their talent was superb, their personalities even better, they know they're great but manage to show that without being particularly arrogant. Incredibly gracious, the world would be a better place if people from their favourite British city spoke like they did, big up biiiiiiiiiiiiiirminam!
01 - Kirani James
At 19 he's a superb athlete and took a brilliant 400m gold which was great to see itself, but he's so humble, winning Grenada's first ever gold medal, and his swapping names with Oscar Pistorious was one of the most emotional moments of the Olympics.
Missing out: Michael Phelps, Handball, Women's 4x100m relay WR
Disappointments04 - BMX - it's thoroughly entertaining but the format was bizarre and inconsistent and made me think 'oh, that's it' when it finished.
03 - Football - both coverage and the GB men's team (but what would you expect from a Stuart Pearce side). The coverage made you realise how terrible the BBC have got in covering football, awful commentary teams and woeful pundits, Robbie Savage proclaiming someone who'd been dropped twice due to being poor as the player of the tournament and Garth Crooks asking "Is that him?" when Neymar (one of the biggest stars of football) appeared on screen.
02 - GB Men's relay team - the bronze medal was there for the taking, with the heat time being faster than Canada and Trinidad & Tobago (3rd DSQ'd and 4th) went in the final, but true to form it was messed up with two separate errors which would mean disqualification, just like four years ago.
01 - GB Swimming Team - Apart from Michael Jaimeson that is. We were never going to be brilliant, of course, but it was the attitude that disappointed me most. Too many were satisfied with mediocrity. You train for four years to represent your country at the Olympic games, the highlight of your career, the place to be your best. Yet only a couple were, even our main hope and the person responsible for 2/3 medals, Rebecca Adlington, cannot be truly satisfied with swimming miles behind her personal best time. The swimming coaches need to get on the phone to GB cycling and be taught about peaking.
The best non-sporting things03 - The opening ceremony - sporting ceremonies are usually things I avoid like the plague. But Danny Boyle nailed it. A perfect representation of Britain.
02 - Bert Le Clos
There have been some fantastic shots and interviews of parents in the last two weeks, but few were anything like as good as Bert Le Clos celebrating his son Chad beat his idol Michael Phelps to swimming gold.
01 - Claire Balding
The BBC have provided us with some fantastic commentators, analysts and presenters over the last two weeks (Denise Lewis, John Inverdale, Chris Boardman, Mark Cavendish, Ian Thorpe, Mark Foster, Michael Johnson to name a few) but no one has come close to matching the brilliance of Claire Balding. A superb broadcaster who showed brilliant enthusiasm and knowledge over a wide range of sports over the last fortnight. She's been truly sensational and the fact that the BBC have let her go to Channel 4 for their Paralympic coverage is excellent news.