Possibly to do with the fact that most people don't care whatsoever about athletics/swimming/equestrianism etc. and have never watched it in their lives. I hate all this "it's the olympics so we have to watch it" rubbish.

Anyway I've got tickets to some of the football matches at Wembley but wish I hadn't bothered now.

Waste of money, billions for sport, naff sport at that, pah.

The Olympics has never really excited me. I never played 'track & field' at school, most of the sports I like are not Olympic sports (cricket, rugby, golf). Just because it's in London, doesn't mean I'm any more interested.

The most intriguing aspect for me is the Olympic Park itself and the whole sustainability / 'legacy' (nebulous concept that it is) angle. I had a tour of the Park a few months back and it looked in better shape than I imagined. The Velodrome is genuinely impressive. The Athlete's Village is pretty standard modern developer-boxy housing though, which was disappointing.

You can't deny that the Olympics has been good as it has given the government the jab it needed to regenerate Stratford, which has been transformed (no Westfield without it).

That said, I won't be glued to my telly.

I went to the velodrome for the World Cup test event. It was awesome and the atmosphere was electric.

My definition of an Olympic Sport is one that 99.9% of the population would, in normal times, cross the road to avoid.

I find it hard to take that I won't be in my home town as it hosts an Olympics, you lucky buggers.