My dad ran for Ireland in the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

Here's his bio on the BBC sports page:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/nort...and/946414.stm

Also, if you read it you'll see my name mentioned :dog:

Wow, that's cool Conor.Does your dad still compete now?

hahahaha awesome! thats really cool, your claim to fame mate! :tongue:

ooh thats quite cool

Thats amazing Conor!! :dance2:

One of Britain's biggest hopes for a gold medal is already out! Boxer Frankie Gavin failed to make the required weight limit in time.

Thanks guys. I guess it is my claim to fame :P

And Dan, unfortunately, my dad doesn't run any more, because of back problems. But he's recovered and is currently doing Ju Jitsu and weight lifting in free time. (Not for the Olympics though)

oooh starts in just over 2 and a half hours

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Can't wait to see Tom Daley doing the diving.

C'mon Murray!

I am actually really looking forward to it starting

Me too Spike, should be awesome, can't wait for 2012, all that excitement over here! :bigsmile:

I think it's awful that london got the next olympics, what a disater its going to be. There has already been problems.

Yeah I know, accommodation, transport and all those bloody problems are annoying but still! wooo

Its weird that the next olympics in London, its crazy to think that I will be living there when it all happens! And I will be in uni, and i will be 22!

Anyway somehow I woke up early enough to watch the opening ceremony.

2012 will be a complete disaster as this country is a living disaster lol, but I'm looking forward to this one.

there was a guy on talksport complaining about the olympics saying nobodys gonna watch it but im looking really forward to it

I'm not watching all of the opening cermony because i have stuff to do :P. I mean it is over 3 hours!!

I love the opening tho, ahh well. Good luck to China. GO TEAM GB!!!

I think they will end up like 6th in the medel table under all the greats, USA and China just naming a couple, i think they have a good chance of scooping quite alot of medels at this summer's games.

im not watching it all as well DT as i have things to do too

I am really enjoying the opening so far, even though nothings happend yet. lol

Wow! OMG

I am loving the light drumming!! It's amazing and i expected something like this too!!

I love the Lycra!

The stadium is impressive. I think this will be one of the best openings