How’s this for saying what so many privately think?

“Instead of spending a fortune on the opening ceremony, we should begin with a simple ceremony,” he says.

“Perhaps if the Queen walked in to the main arena and declared the Games open with a short speech along the lines of, ‘You will all be delighted to learn that the cost of a lavish opening ceremony has been saved this year and all of the money that would have been spent has instead been sent to Africa to be used for much more worthwhile causes’.”

He then went on to joke that there should be two Games: one for clean athletes and one for the steroid users.

Two thumbs up, Peter, for pointing out the absurdity of the Olympics—nationalistic dick-waving at its finest—in this day and age.