Orwell called sport an "unfailing cause of ill-will". It might seem strange to attach that pejorative to a Games so clearly enjoyed by so many, but witness the Twitter reaction after the US beat Japan in the basketball, or the innuendo thrown at 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen.

For years you have been trying to achieve that one major career ambition but each time you get knocked back at the final hurdle. And then, just 4 weeks after the last crushing disappointment, you get another golden opportunity. So how will you turn things around and make it different this time?

Team GB are doing so well. In fact the best they have ever done. I'm their biggest fan who's just about got their voice back from all the screaming I've been doing since the Olympics started.

The Olympics will soon be over for another four years. How will you survive without it? Well, don't wait for the closing ceremonies. Wipe away your tears now - and do sport.

The total number of tweets for the men's 200m final totalled 780,000 yesterday as Usain Bolt made Olympic athletics history as the first man to retain both 100 and 200m sprint titles.

Just a few weeks ago, Britain was deep in the doldrums. A stagnant economy, morally and financially bankrupt banks, journalists and politicians and never-ending rain had over months and years slowly sapped the country of its spirit. Even the much-hyped Queen's Jubilee in June, with a somewhat flat river pageant and sometimes unremarkable concert, failed to lift the public mood.

Usain Bolt basked in the glow of his fifth Olympic gold medal after winning the 200 metres at the London 2012 by taking photographs of spectators. ...

It all began well enough. Australia won gold in the 4x100 women's freestyle relay on the first day of the Olympic Games placing us towards the top of the medal table. I made a bet with my English girlfriend that Australia would easily finish above Team GB.

We are in the middle of a celebrity endorsement tsunami; never in the field of brand marketing has so much been endorsed to so many by so few. To walk London's streets right now is to be introduced to a bewildering array of sports and sports stars; Sunday magazines display their chiseled bodies and ghost-written autobiographies sit in their millions waiting to be shipped.

The United States' comfortable qualification for the 4x400 metre relay final at the London 2012 Olympics on Thursday morning was tainted when sprinter...

Gosh. This Olympics thing really is all about strength, stamina and a dash of intestinal fortitude isn't it.

As Sir Chris Hoy became the most successful British Olympian of all time, he also eclipsed fellow British athletes with 208,000 tweet name checks on Day 11.

Team GB’s Men’s Hockey team have been denied the opportunity to repeat history and face Germany in Saturday’s Gold Medal match after suffering a...

Welsh fighter Jade Jones on Thursday made history by becoming Britain's first Olympic taekwondo champion. The 19-year-old, from Flint, North Wales,...

David Rudisha, the Kenyan athlete who earlier in the week ruled out besting his own world record in the 800 metres at the London Games, set a new worl...

The Olympics have reminded us there is more to sport than just football. As a kid, I remember watching any sport that I could on TV largely due to the fact that there was no football on it. In those days a year's worth of televised live footy could be comfortably watched in a single afternoon. Today, men's football is ubiquitous, so it was ironic that our representatives in The-Only-Sport-That-Matters-TM bowed out quietly, with yet another bathetic penalties defeat in the Quarter-Final, on what was arguably the greatest night for British Sport since 1966. It would be great to think that the FA and the Premiership were capable of learning something from this.