Last night's opening ceremony was amazing, so many surprises from Bond and the Queen 'parachuting' into the stadium to Mr Bean and Chariots of Fire and the saved surprise of the cauldron lighting by seven promising young athletes for the future all nominated by past Olympians.
The ceremony was the brainchild of Danny Boyle and he did not disappoint and made me personally proud to be British and a part of an amazing opening to an historic games.
The ceremony closed with Paul McCartney performing the classic 'Hey Jude' and left everyone who stayed up with a short slumber if they wanted to watch the opening events of Day 1.
From 9-9.20am, Archery from Lords saw GB eliminated from the Men's 24 Arrow by Ukraine losing 223-212 after a close 48 arrows including many perfect 10's.
11am saw the first finals of the games with the Women's 10m Air Pistol won by Yi Siling (Chn) with Slywia Bogacka (Pol) winning the Silver and Yu Dan ( Chn) receiving the Bronze.
GB hopes moved on to the pool with Hannah Miley successfully winning her heat to qualify sixth fastest for the 400m Individual Medley final later tonight and with a big hope of a medal.
Other successes today have included Louis Smith qualifying for the Pommel Horse final next week with fellow Brits, Kristian Thomas and Dan Purvis well placed to qualify in their respective events of Floor and Vault.
Anthony Agogo secured a win in the Boxing beating Junior Castillo Martinez of the Dominican Republic 13-6 to advance to the last 16. Susan Eglestaff won her opening match in the Badminton after beating Slovakia's Maja Tvrdy 21-15 21-10 but her teammates Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier lost 14-21 21-9 21-18 to Russia's Alexandr Nikolaenko and Valeria Sorokina to give them an uphill task in order to qualify for the next round.
Britain's first hope of a medal was in the Men's Road Race which saw a devastating crash in the final stages but the lead group survived sadly with Team GB missing out on a medal with Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov sprinting to the Gold followed by Roberto Uran (Col) and Alexander Kristoff (Nor) with the Bronze.
The third Gold came in the Men's 10m Air Pistol with South Korea's Jongoh Jin taking the title, Luca Tesconi (Ita) shooting for the Silver and the Bronze awarded to Serbian shooter Andrija Zlatic.
As I write Roger Federer (Sui) has been taken to a third set in the Men's Singles Tennis by Colombian Ajelandro Falla (6-3, 5-7) despite having two match points and currently leads 2-1 in the third set.
The ceremony was the brainchild of Danny Boyle and he did not disappoint and made me personally proud to be British and a part of an amazing opening to an historic games.
The ceremony closed with Paul McCartney performing the classic 'Hey Jude' and left everyone who stayed up with a short slumber if they wanted to watch the opening events of Day 1.
From 9-9.20am, Archery from Lords saw GB eliminated from the Men's 24 Arrow by Ukraine losing 223-212 after a close 48 arrows including many perfect 10's.
11am saw the first finals of the games with the Women's 10m Air Pistol won by Yi Siling (Chn) with Slywia Bogacka (Pol) winning the Silver and Yu Dan ( Chn) receiving the Bronze.
GB hopes moved on to the pool with Hannah Miley successfully winning her heat to qualify sixth fastest for the 400m Individual Medley final later tonight and with a big hope of a medal.
Other successes today have included Louis Smith qualifying for the Pommel Horse final next week with fellow Brits, Kristian Thomas and Dan Purvis well placed to qualify in their respective events of Floor and Vault.
Anthony Agogo secured a win in the Boxing beating Junior Castillo Martinez of the Dominican Republic 13-6 to advance to the last 16. Susan Eglestaff won her opening match in the Badminton after beating Slovakia's Maja Tvrdy 21-15 21-10 but her teammates Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier lost 14-21 21-9 21-18 to Russia's Alexandr Nikolaenko and Valeria Sorokina to give them an uphill task in order to qualify for the next round.
Britain's first hope of a medal was in the Men's Road Race which saw a devastating crash in the final stages but the lead group survived sadly with Team GB missing out on a medal with Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov sprinting to the Gold followed by Roberto Uran (Col) and Alexander Kristoff (Nor) with the Bronze.
The third Gold came in the Men's 10m Air Pistol with South Korea's Jongoh Jin taking the title, Luca Tesconi (Ita) shooting for the Silver and the Bronze awarded to Serbian shooter Andrija Zlatic.
As I write Roger Federer (Sui) has been taken to a third set in the Men's Singles Tennis by Colombian Ajelandro Falla (6-3, 5-7) despite having two match points and currently leads 2-1 in the third set.
As I did not see most of the ceremony, I did not realise Paul McCartney was appearing! Well done on the description of the events!
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