Sir Chris Hoy, Bradley Wiggins and topping the medal table

I have enjoyed much of the 5 Live coverage and last week praised some of the presenters.



The pre-recorded pieces on today about women medallists, as an example, are too loud and intrusive. They hardly get to say much other than loud music, crowd roar, commentator yelling, then on to the next. The dirge of monotone preceding it of course, from a certain presenter. In the cold light of day, when you look back, you will see that although in many cases the broadcaster rose to the occasion, there were times when they most terribly failed. I did not like the way Vicky spoke to Aaron Cooke, or the way Campbell spoke to Cameron. Just who do you think you lot are in the 5 Live Temple of Perfection? All the time the spotlight is moved from people achieving their goals and put on to how many consecutive days you have broadcast, or how sore your throats are, or how many of you all managed to see every gold medal GB won. Thanks a bunch. Goodness me, the girl who won the Dressage wasn't even posh! Shock horror to the 5 Live team.



Have to listen to the station as there is often no other way to follow the events, but you all need to calm down, be professional and stop thinking you are more important than ANY person you are interviewing.

You do surprise me carrie..... what ? 5live presenters full of their own self importance ? If their over inflated egos' get any bigger they'll have to build larger studios.The way they come across on radio disgusts me.If only they knew we aren't interested or care about them but the people they are supposed to be interviewing.It's all becoming totally unbearable.If I can just about manage listening to the hourly news headlines its a miracle and no I don't know who they think they are either ?

I will be so glad when we get back to having 'proper news' after the games have finished. I am not looking forward to the phone ins though... 'What was your highlight of the games....'

Lutalo Muhammed was interviewed by Nicky this morning. Nicky did all he could to milk the bronze. I don't blame the kid, it is not his fault he was chosen by the hissy fits at UK Taekwondo, but let's face it, we would be celebrating a GOLD today if they had done the right thing. Muhammed really rubbed salt in the wounds of Cook and all his supporters, many many thousands of them, in this interview. Hope Cook retains his world rankings, let's hope he is chosen to go even.



Loved the hockey girls though, their bronze was more than deserved whereas getting a bronze in a taekwondo repechage is not quite as shiny.

Here's a thought - The EU: same popultaion as the US, a quarter of the population of China, more medals than the both of them combined!

Someone who posted earlier is correct! Your call tomorrow? "Was it worth it?" This forewarning will give the ne'ersayers time to line up for the negatives.



On the other hand, I think it was genius to have the same presenters on the same time bands throughout the fortnight. Eventually we all knew who to miss and who to follow. My personal gold medals go to Mark Chapman (of course)and Peter Allen. My silvers to the Breakfast team even despite that one hoarse voice, and a silver to Livesey and Mike but not the newsreader who doesn't know how to pronounce hard words. 'Fraid I never listened consistently in the evening because I would rather watch. But Pougatch deserves a gold because even if I didn't hear him, we all know he is a brilliant presenter.



Going to miss the fun and all the stuff we have enjoyed these last few months with the build up and then the delivery. So overall, the 5 Live team win a gold from me.

And so the Olympic post mortem phone ins begin.................

I'd like to add my thanks for some amazing coverage over the last 2 weeks.



The coverage has had some fantastic commentary (especially Alan Green, Simon Brotherton, Mike Costello & Darren Fletcher) some great punditry (Rob Hayles, James Cracknell, Steve Bunce) and excellent presenting (Mark Chapman, Mark Pougatch & Tony Livesey).

My biggest complement is that it told a far better story of the Olympics than the TV managed with pictures and the commentators all sounded like they cared about the sport they were describing.



My only gripes were some of the presenters (Nicky Campbell & Colin Murray especially) appeared to think they were bigger than 'the biggest show on earth'

I'd also like to add my thanks to the fantastic coverage provided by Five Live of the olympics.



The commentary as ever was perfect and in particular Mike Costello and Simon Brotherton, two of the very best in the business and the men to listen to for the big moments.



Also special thanks to John Murray, Gordon Farquar and Mark Pougatch for the opening ceremony coverage.



But all the fantastic commentators deserve a mention - Bob Ballard, Jonathan Overend, Alastair Bruce-Ball, Darren Fletcher, Alastair Eykyn, Rob Nothman, Chris Mitchell and Martin Cross. Plus Alan Green fantastic as always on the rowing and John Hunt was excellent covering some different sports.



Great punditry as mistered5 said and I also think the presenting combinations all worked well. Mark and Victoria, Colin and Peter and then Mark Pougatch and Tony Livesey.



Well done to all involved.

And this mornings phone in is............. Olympics again.



Hello? It's over. There is a world out there wherre other things are happening.

Today's phone in left me speechless. Some of the callers were borderline racist in their comments. Disgusting.

Why don't they just re-name this station Talksport Mark 11 and have done with it.Everytime I tune in to get some actual news ( anyone know what that is at 5live ?) I hear that dreadful trailer with Simon Brotherton screeching at the top of his voice.If he is an example of how 5live commentators perform, then thank goodness I watched the Olympics on television.In particular the tv commentators on the boxing were quite superb as was Steve Cram on the athletics and just goes to show that you don't have to have these ear shattering voices to inform people what exactly is going on.

@11. carrie, I heard the calls you're referring to and I have to agree with you - quite unfortunate to hear such prejudiced comments. Think the BBC needs to make more of an effort to consolidate the real legacy of the games rather than providing a platform for non-value add rants that have no basis. It would be lovely to have some BBC coverage on what communities are doing to continue the momentum and interest generated by the games.

Come on now lets not shut down free speech altogether.I found the 5live phone in this morning to be quite entertaining, I don't think I am quite ready for a Soviet style of broadcasting just yet.Think some are becoming a little to overly sensitive with regards to any criticism of the Games or any relevance to Britishness.I've hardly heard any descenting voices during these past 2 and a 1/2 weeks , they are entitled to their view even if you and myself don't agree.

Actually racist comments are offensive and against the law. If a caller was saying some of that stuff about another nation it would be pulled. I think it is a bit disingenuous of the BBC on many occasions to design a phone in question which promotes these type of rants to happen. So actually I blame the media and not the message.



Personally I am sick of hearing about legacy etc., already my eyes are glazing over. This weekend when there is a mass 'try it and see' at hundreds of sports clubs, we will see how ready they all are to take up the enthusiasm engendered by the Olympic dreams coming true for some of the GB Team. That will hopefully be a good start.

To be fair, the comments on this specific phone-in could be had for most other morning's 'Your Call'

It always seems a bit strange to me when a random member of the public is given the same airtime as an expert (usually from Salford University!) on the topic of the day. It's OK when it's a subject like today, but when it's a subject like Quantitative Easing I wonder what value the callers give.

You're not wrong mistered5.



I think Salford is the centre of the go-to for 5 Live. Shame about the fact the rest of the UK is hidden from view. It is cheap though, to get local experts. 35p on the bus to MediaCity or if you are brave, a swift walk through the dodgy bit where the poor Indian student was murdered.



However, this blog is about the Olympics, and I would like to know more about how the Paralympics will be covered on 5 Live, and how we can feed back our views on all the coverage without a Feedback programme of our own.



Blog please!

Some very well reasoned comments on here - wonder if anyone in management will read them or have they all gone for a lie down? Didn't listen to the phone in - can't stand phone in's or either of the presenters - but mistered's comments are very aposite. Do we really want to hear the biggotted comments of the great unwashed purporting to be entertainment? Ban all phone-in's I say along with Tweet comments. Just one problem. Five Live would have to close down such is the lack of original material ... or should I simply say originality?

And now they are combining the Olympics with Football on the phone in........ Is there no end to their ingenuity? (sigh)



How about discussing the Assange case?

Aaaah football. As you were 5Live listeners. Salford-based 5 Live continue to go on and on and on about Citeh (sic) and United.



Who cares? About 85% of the listeners I'm afraid.