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Post Olympic Blues

I woke up this morning in my hotel in Birmingham and switched on the TV as I have been doing for the last few weeks to be met with BBC's morning news. The disappointing thing here was that it wasn't the Olympics, instead some US election news.

The Olympics is over and I will join the band wagon here and say that they were amazing. Right from the opening ceremony which was a stunning spectacle on how China can perform on the world stage through to the disappointing relay races for both the UK and the US in the birds nest, I was glued at every possibility to the TV screen.

But it wasn't just the TV I was glued to and this is where an article from Ron Tolido is a must read to see how access to all become apparent in this Olympics.

I would like to point out how I predicted in my previous Olympic post that if it involved water then we would do well. Without saying 'I told you so', have a think about it - you may recognise it was a good prediction. Next post I will try the lottery numbers! :-)

Moving onto some technical difficulties that the Olympics had I could mention the 'fake' fireworks at the begging of the event but I have read so much about this that my conclusion is that the BBC held information from us. They were told in the briefing that viewers would see a digital impression, but they failed to pass this information on to us. NBC incidentally informed their viewers and nothing further was said.

But what a spectator did catch during the opening ceremony was the good old blue screen of death! Yes indeed a crowd member spotted this blue screen and managed to take this picture of it.

Other than this though I failed to spot any other miss-haps with the technology from an end user perspective but this may have been because I was caught up in the success of the GB squad. If you spotted anything I would like to hear of it so please post a comment.

As a last point well done to all athletes that took part, getting there was a major achievement even if you didn't bring home a medal.