Olympic Event #6 - Athletics/Track and Field

The seats were high, on the opposite side to the finish line and the hot sun blazed straight in our eyes.

It was great!

Olympic stadium is a huge creature, and some of the events we saw were like watching very strong and flexible ants doing odd things for ants. 

We saw Women's hammer final, Men's pole vault final (Olympic record), Men's 4x100 heats (Canada got into the final with the third fastest time, just behind Jamaica and USA - no one was more surprised than I), Women's 1500 , Men's 5000, Women's 4x100 final (a world record absolutely shattered by a full half a minute). 

But the prize has to be the Men's 4x400 final: the Bahamas beat the USA to win their first gold medal in track ever, a man missing both feet ran in the able-bodied Games  (Oscar Pistorius of South Africa)
Britain so very close to getting that 3rd place finish - the crowd was one huge roaring monster throughout.  And a couple of medal ceremonies, too (although for teeny tiny ant-like athletes)

Break out the magnifying glass -
women's 4x100 medla ceremony

hot enough in the sunshine - happy we didn't sit near the cauldron!

We even saw Waldo!

It was fitting that we watched the sun go down into a gold washed sky as the sun went down on our Olympic experience with Britain overachieving spectacularly.  Well done Team GB.