This week, we're all feeling the thrill of seeing our national teams in action: mostly young people from all over the country whose extraordinary dedication to their craft gives us an uplifting sense of what we can all achieve if we put our mind to it. Each day we marvel at dazzling new teams: the gymnasts, the showjumpers, the rowers...
This Saturday, Britain's biggest team of all steps forward. That said, you won't find them at the Olympic Park, or in any of the other designated Olympic arenas dotted around London. On Saturday night, all eyes should be on the Royal Albert Hall.
Here, 165 teenagers - some no older than Tom Daley when he appeared at the Beijing Olympics aged 14 - will take the stage in a performance that's already guaranteed to merit solid gold.
Deserving our pride, excitement and applause as much as our young athletes, meet the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
When Pierre de Coubertin launched the modern Olympic movement in the late 19th century, he declared that it should celebrate sport, education and music alike. When Britain bid for this year's Games, it pledged to make good on that. True to its word, Britain's biggest orchestra - indeed, its biggest team of any kind - takes the spotlight at the BBC Proms at the halfway point of this extraordinary fortnight.
There's never been a better moment to give classical music a try. Think about it: millions of us had never previously shown the slightest interest in handball or pommel horse but suddenly find ourselves addicts thanks to the spellbinding skill of our young Olympians. So it goes with the young stars of the National Youth Orchestra who reveal the amazing sportsmanship of making music in ways that most of us have never imagined.
Their precision at such a young age is as startling as Kristian Thomas and Beth Tweddle's, their stamina for embarking on epic challenges as tireless as Lizzie Armistead's. What's more, the joy they exude, seizing the opportunity to share their love of music on such a great stage with an international audience, is seriously infectious. They play with a fluency and verve so strong that no performance is anything less than astounding: gold medals should be awarded all round.
Their programme this Saturday is specially devised to show even the toughest judges their true athleticism. At its core is the spectacular 'Turangalila' Symphony, a non-stop space-age rollercoaster more exciting than any film score and bringing to mind vast science-fiction dreamscapes more immense than even Hollywood's computer trickery could muster. Music like this certainly isn't child's play - it makes even the world's greatest orchestras tremble - but you'll see Team GB nail it this weekend almost without breaking a sweat.
Then they perform their own Olympic piece, commissioned specially to coincide with the Games. Entitled 'HandsFree' and written by another great British hope, the young composer Anna Meredith, it's a witty and ingenious ode to the hidden musician in all of us. It's written for all 165 members of the National Youth Orchestra but strikingly doesn't involve any instruments. Instead, they use only the bare means that any of us have to make music: a bit of clapping, some stamping, and a few basic beatboxing techniques.
But what a spell they cast with even these simple ingredients. Since January they've taken the piece around the country, almost like their own musical Olympic torch. Along the way, it's generated its own must-see cult status and you can catch a tiny taster of it here, but the ultimate performance is set to rock the roof off the Royal Albert Hall this Saturday night.
As there's so much sport on, the BBC aren't showing it on television until 7.30pm on Thursday 23 August on BBC Four, but ahead of that you can catch it live on BBC Radio 3, or head to the Royal Albert Hall yourself this Saturday. If you've never been to the BBC Proms, the atmosphere and grandeur of the occasion is pretty Olympic in itself.
Best of all, at the heart of the hall right in front of the stage, there's the classical equivalent of a mosh pit where you can stand only metres from the musicians as they unleash a tidal wave of sound, without need for any amplification.
In the midst of two weeks of amazing British talent, this astounding young team truly deserves your support.