The agony of victory, the joy of defeat

The Brits are already worrying about the 2012 Olympics. Jim White has a column in the Telegraph: "The moment many of us will take with us from this Olympics came when Ben Ainslie won gold in the sailing and Britain moved ahead of the Germans, French, Italians, Russians and, most joyfully of all, the Australians to climb into third place in the medal table. Third? How did that happen? There we were a week ago pointing out that Michael Phelps had more gold medals than Britain and now we were higher up the rankings than we had been since the days when the Olympic Games were largely conducted as a passing out parade for British public schoolboys."

Rico says it'll be nice to have the Olympics back in good old Blighty in 2012; they did it first in 1908 and again in 1948, so they get the Games just about every forty years, it seems. (They were supposed to have them in 1944, but something else came up...)