READY FOR THE FINISH?
The Olympic Games come to a conclusion in a few hours, and from my point of view - the Shard, City Hall, Leicester Sq, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, Gherkin, Hyde Park, Tate Modern, Westminster, Globe, the Eye, etc... - these have been the most glorious Games for Team GB. The opening (and the closing) extravaganza outpace anything we have come to know at such events, with the distinctly Britanic spin adding to the charm and joyous theme of the feat. Roll over, Beijing, your staging ground four years ago was as appealing and megalomaniac as the 1936 Games. London 2012 was an exciting homage to global sports, with emphatic focus on humankind, not on churned out productivity of a totalitarian system seen in 2008.
Even in playful frolicking and joyous competition, the Free World played regimes like Moscow's or Beijing's against the wall, just as it should be.
With only a handful of gold medals left to bestow, the tally of the Anglo-American hemisphere is impressive: US 44 / UK 28 / COMMONWEALTH 52.
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