Olympics 2012: sport-for-anything-but-sport’s-sake
Read spiked editor Mick Hume's Notebook in The Times (London).
‘Against all the odds, in an heroic display of self-deluded small-mindedness, it seems that the British government is now fighting to realise its true Olympic Dream: to turn the 2012 London Games into the sporting equivalent of the Millennium Dome “triumph”….’