“Don’t you just love the Olympics? The glory, the tears, the choking, the cheating: all essential Olympian ingredients. But the first week of the Games always seems rather odd. It’s a kind of Phoney Olympics: a week-long series of warm-up exercises before the real war begins with the track-and-field events.”
The track-and-field events are what the modern Olympics are designed for, not for those other sports. No offence, but I got turned off the first week of events in Beijing, even though Britain got a few medals already (Okay, I apologise to Team GB for suggesting in a previous post that they would be lucky to get around five medals in all- they won eight in all so far which includes three golds).