London 2012. We all started out so cynical – but then again, the budget began at £2.4bn. I sometimes think it took an outsider in the shape of Mitt Romney, as Republican nominee for president, coming to London and committing a diplomatic gaffe in questioning how much we wanted the Games for us to admit that, erm, we really did.
All doubts were dispelled by the time the Queen hurled herself off a helicopter, Brunel put a coal fire under the industrial revolution and Team GB took to the track as David Bowie’s epic, Heroes, blared out. Go one, I’ve gone to the effort of time-stamping each link above and I dare you to watch without goosebumps.
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