When I'm not cooking breakfast, cleaning rooms, gardening or kayaking this is where I'll be. In front of the TV. Watching the Olympics.
Athletes or events I'm most looking forward to seeing:
Pretty much any event with Aussies in it. Although between CTV, NBC, TSN, etc etc there's not much coverage of the Australians.
Kohei Uchimura - mens gymnastics. An awesome gymnast from Japan who was favourite to win 5 gold medals. He didn't get off to a good start falling of the bars.
Oksana Chusovitina - women's gymnastics. At 37 this is her 5th Olympics She also competed in the 92, 96, 2004 and 2008 Games, winning Team Gold in 92 and Silver on the vault in 08.
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh-Jennings - Beach Volleyball. Gold medal winners in 2004 and 2008. Can they threepeat?
Roger Federer - one of the greatest tennis players ever. He's never won Olympic gold in the men's singles in three previous games (2000, 2004 and 2008).
Track and Field and the Marathon - I don't know many (if any) of the Australian team anymore. But it's still my favourite sport.
Sally Pearson - Australian hurdler. Current World Champion, silver medalist in 2008. Until recently she was undefeated in 2012.
Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake - sprinters from Jamaica. Or will another sprinter take them both out.
Roman Sebrle - decathlete. Silver medalist in Sydney 2000 and gold in Athens 2004. First decathlete to score over 9000 points. Suffered a potentially career ending injury in 2007 when a javelin punctured his shoulder.
My favourite events to watch:
Swimming
Diving
Track and field
Hockey
Gymnastics
Beach Volleyball
Canoe Slalom
Cycling - track and road
Rowing
Tennis
Water Polo
Anything really.