Seb Coe opened the Olympics promising: “London 2012 will see the very best of us.”
On the 10th anniversary of that vow, the Lord of the Rings is in no doubt the Games delivered. “They were a Games made in Britain by people in Britain,” said the architect of that sporting summer of love. “That’s the thing I look back with most nostalgia about.
“So many people came together from communities that maybe didn’t think they had much in common with each other. I’m forever grateful to millions of people across the UK who made it, and I’ll say it 10 years on, the greatest Games ever. I’m not ashamed to say that. I think they were, on pretty much every metric.”
