The women's basketball final

Last night was my penultimate event of this whole 'lympics adventure, with a trip to the women's basketball bronze and gold matches at the North Greenwich Arena, aka The O2, aka the Millennium Dome. Here's Robin outside it...

They've just opened a new thing where you can walk over the top of the dome. Looks mad. And fun.

This one's on the way in. All this 2012 branding will presumably be gone by Monday. :-(

So we saw two matches - USA vs the Netherlands in the bronze match, which was won easily by the Netherlands (a big shock, as USA got gold in Beijing and have won a medal every Olympics since 1996).

And then it was Germany vs Australia in the gold match which, sadly, was also not a particularly close contest. Germany ended up winning at a canter, as Australia weren't taking their chances (they actually had more shots on basket, but missed a significantly higher percentage - including 11 of their 12 free shots).

The Germans, then, thoroughly deserved their gold - and here they are celebrating it, in this next photo. Really enjoyed watching both games - such a quick, physical and skilful sport.

Which just leaves one more London 2012 event for Robin and I. The 7-a-side football classification matches tomorrow morning in the Riverside Arena in the Olympic Park. One of them will feature Team GB. No doubt, 20,000 people will be cheering them, and these Games, as loud as they possibly can. 

Um, I went to the Athletics again on Tuesday...

...but forgot to take Robin.

Great night, though. Highlights included seeing Jonnie Peacock win his 100m heat (that's him above, he then got gold last night), and Oscar Pistorius lead the South African 4x100m relay team to victory. Oh, and the incredible 4x100m relay for the visually impaired where the entire crowd were asked (and managed) to be silent until the final changeeover had taken place.

Tonight's I'm off to the women's wheelchair basketball gold medal match. Robin is definitely coming to this one...

Robin's Paralympics debut

We're just back from our first (of four) trips to the London 2012 Paralympics, where we'd managed to snag some tickets for the morning athletics session. We saw some great sport, including wheelchair races...

And an amazing race from GBR's Richard Whitehead, where he stormed to gold in the 200m despite trailing coming out of the bend...

Here he is getting his medal. Rapturous reaction from a very partisan crowd. Saying that, though, the crowd basically cheered anyone very loudly, whether it was a Brit storming to gold, the Finnish guy smashing the wheelchair 100m record, or the fellow from Djbouti who took more than 10 minutes to finish his 1500m heat (several laps behind the others) but was absolutely roared around the track.

And then afterwards we wandered around the Olympic Park (which was considerably busier than I'd ever seen it) and took some silly photos on a volunteer's chair and with Paralympic mascot Mandeville in the 2012 Superstore...

Next up it's back to the Stadium for athletics on Wednesday night....