07/07/2022
More optimistic times…
10 years ago, I was lucky enough to be at the Closing Ceremony of London 2012 and watched with optimism as Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, waved the Olympic Flag and handed over to Rio de Janeiro, extolling the Olympic values:
Excellence, friendship and respect.
Since then, we’ve seen political upheaval, Covid, lockdowns, war, soaring costs, fake news, alternative facts, the climate crisis and enough bad blood to last many generations.
With Boris’s resignation as Prime Minister today, I can only hope that, whatever our political views, we will look back to those Olympic values and begin to move forward in optimism and not recrimination.