So I’m now getting to grips with the demise of both the early morning and late evening Olympic Games coverage on the BBC which means that I now have no excuses for being late in to the office... For those of you that know me I’m a bit of sports-nut and as a former sprinter/hurdler I just love big sporting events such as Wimbledon, the 6 Nations, the World Cup and of course the Olympic Games as it’s really inspiring to watch athletes battling against the elements and pushing their bodies to the absolute limits.

I was just reading a review of Microsoft’s involvement as an official sponsor of Team GB which prompted me to reflect on the events that I watched. The fact that British athletes won 30 medals at the Athens Games finishing tenth in the overall medal table, their highest tally since LA in 1984, was a pretty fantastic achievement however my own personal highlights were typically athletics or water-related so that means the gold medal in the coxless fours rowing and a fourth consecutive Olympic gold for Matthew Pinsent; Kelly Holmes scooping the gold in both the 800m and 1500m; the men’s 4x100m relay team who pulled off one of the shocks of the Games by beating perennial winners America into second place; Bronze for Nick Dempsey in the windsurfing and Gold for Ben Ainslie in the Finn dinghy sailing; Michael Phelp’s six gold medal tally in the swimming and of course the Beach volleyball and the Triathlon which are definitely two of the more exciting additions to the Olympics.

Athens really was a great spectacle after all of the construction delays and the doping scandals and I really do hope that Lord Sebastian Coe and London can pull off their bid to host the 2012 Olympics.. what do you reckon, would London make a great venue and is London capable of pulling it off?