I don't really have a favourite - I like them all generally speaking apart from the events that really on peoples judgement to determine the winner (e.g. Gymnastics, Diving, Synchronised Swimming). The reason I am not keen on them is there is always controversy as they are open to interpretation and as the are realiant on human perspective open to bribery.

There were some calls there that did make me wonder what was up.

Matthew Pinsent (rowing) winning Gold at 4 consecutive olympics, only one more to g o to equal redgrave's record. Kelly Holmes becoming the third person to win the 800M & 1500M double gold (and the first Briton to ever win a double gold), and El-Gourouj was special too.
Holmes was fun to watch. Especially the 1500M. I will confess to wanting her to win it. When she was way in back I wondered what was up and kinda lost hope for her but then she just blew past everyone. That was a fun race to watch.

The above, and add in Bradley Wiggins (Cycling) and Amir Khan (Boxing) who was awesome.

Normally I don't like boxing but you guys are making me wish I had just to see who this Khan was.

Matthew Pinsent - it got a lot of coverage back home but not elsewhere. To win 4 gold medals in 4 consecutive olympics in one of, if not the most, physically hard sport is an amazing achievement. It probably hasn't got as much coverage as Redgrave did the same thing 5 times, but Pinsent could well equal that.

I missed alot of the first week because I was working. I liked the rowing in the 84 olympics so I probably would have liked it this time but almost totally missed it. ~sigh~

Not controversial but the worse point for me was the US 4x100M team (and the TV coverage here). I felt they were very poor losers - they were beaten by the better team on the day.

Sounds like I missed something there. I thought I saw that race but don't remember them being bad sports about loosing. Did our TV edit out some unbecoming behavior on their part?

Thanks for your picks. They were interesting