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I'm getting very sentimental these days. A few minutes watching the Paralympics and I'm teary-eyed. (Or scared - wheelchair rugby players are bloody aggressive bastards, even more so than the basketball players.) I'm still not sold on C4's coverage - their commentators and interviewers seem to have very limited vocabularies - but The Last Leg is hilarious, brilliant stuff.

Plus I seem to have a ~~huge~~ teeny tiny crush on Oscar Pistorius. Guh.

Below the cut, for those of you who were Not Paying Attention, the thing that has had me grinning at random intervals for the last couple of days. *glee*

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I've never watched the Olympics opening ceremony before, so I have no ability to make comparisons, but that one was pretty good. I imagine most of the world was a bit baffled by the Industrial Revolution stuff, so I hope you all had decent commentary going on. The BBC did well on that score. I *loved* the idea of using NHS staff and patients from Great Ormond Street for the 'children's lit' section, and the sight of Mary Poppinses flying down was quite brilliant. I can't decide quite what to make of the James Bond bit... Lots of awesomeness, and that incredible flower turning into the Olympic cauldron was fabulous.

Your thoughts?