Wow wasn’t the Olympics brilliant. What a great achievement for Team GB. The organisation was superb and I thoroughly enjoyed it all.
The opening and closing ceremonies were just amazing. It must have been such a thrill to be in the stadium and witness such once in a lifetime events.
As much as I enjoyed watching the opening and closing ceremonies I was not able to enjoy the music or hear any of the singing. The subtitles do help and by sometimes recognising the words of the songs I then can ‘hear’ what is being sung. I have been told that the music was brilliant so I feel a bit sad that I was not able to hear it properly.
Using subtitles can be a bit of a hit or miss, especially when the programmes are live. They can just suddenly stop then I lose track of what is being said, it is so frustrating. Also sometimes the wording that does come up is complete “gobblygook”, so I have to try and work out what it should be. I have had many a laugh when they do correct it and I realise what was meant to be written. Also when I was watching some of the events with hearing friends they said that the subtitles were so far behind the speech. I decided then to turn the subtitles off as I thought it might be distracting for them.
I did use my loop system sometimes, just to get some sound and the atmosphere of the events. I found it all very exciting, and with heart thumping cheered on all our wonderful Olympic athletes.