Quotation of the week
To mark the end of the Olympics:
There are times in sport when you wonder if you don't spend rather too much of your life bothering with it, and then again, there are moments when you know beyond all doubt that sport can be as marvellous a thing as we humans are capable of coming up with. That's if you think that joy and aspiration and the pursuit and capture of excellence are marvellous things.
— Simon Barnes, writing in the Times
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