The London Olympics has much to delight – but forget any talk of a legacy

Everyone knows there is no Olympic legacy, but, as with Santa Claus, we dare not tell the children.

The real victims of London's mind-numbing mendacity will be the poor and hapless citizens of Rio in 2016. They really cannot afford it.

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