29/7 - Football at Old Trafford
30/7 - Swimming heats
Women's handball: GB v Russia and France v Spain
31/7 - Fencing - Men's Foil
Men's volleyball - England v Australia and Brazil v Russia
1/8 - Boxing
2/8 - Beach Volleyball
3/8 - Athletics in the morning. Heats and the start of the heptathlon.
Men's Water Polo
4/8 - Men's basketball: GB v Australia and Argentina v Brazil
5/8 - Table Tennis - Men's team quarter finals
6/8 - Canoe Sprint heats
Women's hockey: GB v Netherlands and Argentina v Australia
7/8 -
8/8 - Canoe Sprint finals
Men's Basketball quarter finals, hopefully to include the USA
9/8 -
10/8 - Taekwondo finals
11/8 -
12/8 - Women's modern pentathlon
...I think I've ticked about half the available boxes. My big regret is having no cycling so far. Gymnastics and diving would be interesting too, but it's the cycling that hurts in the Summer of Wiggins.
Top three people I'm most excited to watch: The greatest olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, in the 200m butterfly, Jessica Ennis at the start of her Heptathlon title defence and LeBron in the basketball. If the US don't top their group and end up in the other quarter final session I'm going to have words with coach Krzyzewski.
Biggest under-the-radar excitement is for the GB hockey girls in their final pool game, the clash between world number one Brazil and number two Russia at the volleyball, and watching the Murray brothers in the first round of the men's doubles tomorrow night. I was disappointed as hell not to be seeing Aaron Cook in the Taekwondo final, but his controversial non-selection gives Lutalo Muhammed a chance to prove his own worth.
I loved the idea of closing out the games by seeing their very last gold medal awarded, in the modern pentathlon. Could British world champion Mhairi Spence give the games their perfect conclusion? I think it's scripted.
I loved the idea of closing out the games by seeing their very last gold medal awarded, in the modern pentathlon. Could British world champion Mhairi Spence give the games their perfect conclusion? I think it's scripted.
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