Whether it was a result of the absence of partisan crowds or not, one pleasing aspect of this year's delayed Olympic Games has been the number of medals being won by countries for the first time. One can take pride in the UK's performance out of proportion to our population size, and decry the extent to which commercial interests dominate the four-yearly extravaganza, but meeting one of the high-minded aims of the people who created the modern Games must give hope for the future.
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