I'll prolly be at work, so will have to catch the highlights 

Never mind, i reckon watching on TV will show more than actually being there. The opening and closing ceremony would be better being there but the price of the tickets ( if they were available ) would be extortionate

Having said that..being the summer, if we get a good one it might be on till early evening and then I might have to catch up 

I will watch on TV

*Wonders if they'll give us time off or hire a telly for the office*   Errrrrrrrm nope, prolly not 

The only footie i am interested in at the moment is Blackburn not going down and Accy Stanley able to keep in the league. Not a footie fan really, but like to see local teams doing well.

Not that interested in sports to be honest,so I  probably won't be watching any of it. Thank Gawd for SKY+.

Me too 

I read on Yahoo they were going to charge folk to watch on the Big screens somewhere in London. Also they were fencing off somewhere where the sailing was held and charging folk to watch. And the same where the biking was being held.

Have you noticed programs have gone from the entertainment channels? When we signed up there was at least 3 pages of channels. now we are down to 2 and a bit.    

They have to recoup their outlay you know, we're in financial difficulties 

Yeah, I like diving too Summer. Dunno that I'll get to see any live though 

My daughter is going but i can't remember what she has tickets for as there is a group of them going, i think it might be basketball, they applied for loads but didn't get what they wanted, her mate is one of the people that stand behind the start line to take their clothes away, lil Aims is not happy she didn't get picked 

Tell her to grab what she can as they will be worth a fortune after.

Good idea 

As I live in the Central Lowlands of Scotland there's no chance that I'd be at the Olympics.

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in two years time is a possibility. However I will probably settle for watching on the TV.

There are Olympic events taking place in the Central Belt: the football at Hampden Park...

I have never in my life been to a football match....and you have NO idea how awkward it is to get to Hampden Park!

Fair enough!

Football's been pretty-much the only Olympic event it's been reasonably easy to get tickets to, though...

Used to live near Hampden , big match days were a nightmare ! 

I can imagine Slinki!

The closest I ever lived to a football ground was as a child/teenager/ young adult in Clydebank. We lived about 30 minutes walk from Kilbowie Park - when Clydebank still had a football team.

It never really impinged on us. At that time Clydebank didn't really have a high profile town centre, so if you were going to 'the big shops' (M&S, Lewis' etc,) you'd be going to Glasgow anyway. So you wouldn't really be bothered by any football crowds if Clydebank was playing at home.

By the time Clydebank made it to the Premier League (equivalent of) I was married and living in Lanarkshire.

As practically every road around here will be closed for the cycling road races and that the transport system will collapse....I shall be leaving London for the duration and won't watch any of it either

And we've got it all to look forward to in a couple of years time!