i) Well done the British aristocracy with medals in shooting, rowing and equestrianism. Yes it may be a lazy assumption to make but quite a lot of them sounded a bit posh, didn't they? Come on. They did...
ii) We are brilliant at track cycling. Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton retire with more gold medals and new kids Jason Kenny and Laura Trott, who was very sweet, come in and look like nailed-on favourites for gold in Rio in 2016. We need to study why we have success in this area and transpose that blueprint to other areas because we are stupidly dominant at this.
iii) So many great moments to enjoy: Jade Jones winning an unexpected gold at Taekwondo; Mo Farah winning golds at 10,000m and 5,000m; Nicola Adams winning the first women's boxing gold; Gemma Gibbons winning an emotional silver at judo; Jess Ennis handling the pressure and coming through to win gold; Yorkshire providing a shedload of gold medals for Team GB.
iv) The Spice Girls should never, ever be reunited again. We've got rid of cholera and we don't want to bring that back. The same should apply to the Spice girls.
v) Well done team America for winning the basketball. It's brilliant to see the most well-paid sportsmen in the world doing so well in an Olympics. Basketball should not be an Olympic sport. Same as tennis in my opinion. What next? Golf? Football? Oh, hang on...
vi) Paul McCartney singing Hey Jude. We don't expect Ali to box any more. We shouldn't expect McCartney to still be the singer he was 30 years ago. Just stop. Please...
vii) Seb Coe. To quote Chris Morris: 'I hate Seb Coe.' But him and his team have done good here.
For me, London 2012 has shown that when there is a combination of the money and the political will and that joins with the support of the people, then Britain can still be great and punch well above its weight.
You just wish politicians of any hue who end up running the country would harness this sort of enthusiasm and funding to make a difference in things like dealing with youth unemployment and rebuilding the economy instead of letting the poor get poorer and bringing in legislation to allow their rich mates to get richer.
But there are no medals and international kudos for that. And you know most politicians, particularly the current lot, don't actually give a fuck about that either. So expect it to be business as usual.
Sad but true...
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