Team GB:

Athens 2004:
Gold - 9
Silver - 9
Bronze - 12
Total - 30

Beijing 2008:
Gold - 19
Silver - 13
Bronze - 15
Total - 47

Current total for London:
Gold - 0
Silver - 1
Bronze - 2

Of course, all our good events are 'in progress'.   I would love to see an improvement on Beijing's total.

New UK record in men's 200m breast. Well done Michael Jamieson.

Phelps just got his 19th Olympic medal. A new record. Amazing.

Avatar 2 Behind-the-Scenes photo:



(na'vi motion capture body double preparing for underwater scene)

Gold and bronze in the cycling time trial.

A silver medal for Norway in the mens fencing. :D

Quoting mediadogg:

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DVR'd the Opening Cereminy. Watching now - about 1/2 way thru.

Also taping the Panasonic 3D channel. My first experience watching 3D broadcast. Awesome effects wtaching the whitewater events.

Gladdens the heart to see the World cooperating on something for a change ... maybe there is hope.

(So far, Good Job on your 3rd Olympics, GB! )

OMG Mr. Bean is hilarious!

Mr. Bean was a good comic character to have for the opening because there is no language barrier.

Silver in the rowing there for our 10th medal.

Getting a bit pissed off with the press now saying they are disappointed with the UK performance. We have 63m people in GB... of course we are not going to be able to compete with US (300m+) and China (1.3b+) but relatively speaking, they are doing us proud. Again, if we can beat the 47 medal total from four years ago, then that would be several Olympics in a row where we have improved.