I find watching most sports to be incredibly dull. I might catch "edited highlights" of things like the Grand Prix, but otherwise I wouldn't watch anything that didn't involve hot women in skimpy clothes.

There is some evidence (I've not checked it in depth so it may be rather spurious) that suggests watching sport actually increases your fitness levels and can help to lose weight.

I guess that if you really get into it you unconsciously move about a lot. A cheap way to get fit anyways.

I'll be giving the Olympics a wide berth and instead eating as much Dairy Milk as humanly possible before it's taxed beyond my purchasing power.

I suggest the 99p blocks, you know, before they go over the 'psychological barrier' of £1.00

I'm always amazed at the amount of pin collecting that seems to surround the Olympics.
It's not something you really see unless you actually go there.

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RIP - Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili.

A terrible way to start the games.

Blimey, there are lots of crashes in the women's downhill tonight!

Yeah I just watched it, looks bloody leathal! Hope they are ok, I have forgotten her name but the one that had the accident whilst jumping look pretty based up.

You've no idea how steep those downhill event slopes are until you go to one. You just can't tell on the TV.

I wonder if they could have some on-ski telemetry such as an inclinometer.

*goes to patent idea*

been watching it at night as theres nothing else on, but i always do enjoy olympics, snowboarding is my favorite but hockey and skiing are good too,
the downhill today had some good crashes (apart from the amazingly high one, that looked like it hurt alot) especially the french woman who stabbed her own foot on the entrance

hoping to stay awake tonight for the snowboarding half pipe at half 1am

I'm in with the snowboard cross and the mogul skiing. The normal downhill seems a bit bland to me and I can't be dealing with the 'going down a tube on a tea tray' types, no matter how lunaticly brave they obviously all are.

Best bit of the games so far - one of the quarter final of the Women's snowboard cross being won with somewhat ease by Swiss boarder Olivia Nobs (you can see where this is going can't you) and the commentator gets a little over-excited and shouts

'And Nobs is out in front!'

Childish I know, but it's nice to see the spirit of David Coleman lives on.

When I was in Sweden I used to joke with my family there that I would be the next British ski jumper. So rather than be "Eddie the Eagle" I would be "The Brick". So they took me to a junior training run. [LIFTED] it was high. You start at the top of the slope, which is 10 m higher than the top of the forest, then you have a long slope and the town and the end of the ski jump is about a 1km away and the people look like ants. This was a school training jump, for those up to 15. You have to be mad to do it. I was not quite mad enough.

The halfpipe is on too late tonight, I'll have to watch it on tomorrows highlights.

Saw some woman in the downhill last night take off like she was a 747. Luckily she was ok but by god I bet that was a 'oh shiiit oh shiiit oh shiiit' moment. Maybe she should enter the ski jump