In my view the Olympic games were a spectacular display of abilities, courage and commitment by all those that took part, whether medal winners or not. Sure there were disappointments, none greater than that of seeing Liu Xiang hobbling off the Olympic 100m hurdles course, obviously in enormous pain and so disappointed to not be representing China. Nothing anybody can say or do will expunge his personal disappoint,, but he is young enough to come back an win in London in 2012. The same cannot be said of Paula Radcliffe, gold medallist just about everywhere except the Olympics
China can and should be justifiably proud of having put on the best Olympic games in the modern era. To everybody’s surprise they ignored the politics, but, they used the infrastructure that their system has to excel in organisation – at times and in places they took it to the extreme, placing a miming beauty on the pedestal for all to see while a songbird sang behind the scenes. Totally unnecessary but indicative of the effort they put into making this Olympics the best Olympic experience ever. In my eyes they succeeded.
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