As London snuffs out the flame this evening on the XXX Olympiad and, as it were, hands the baton on to Brazil, this week’s editorial will be a slight mea culpa.
The peril of dealing with people and their stories – whether for news or venture investments – is it is easy to become cynical. In my case, I expected the Olympic spirit to be broken against a wall of sponsors, incompetence and mean-spirited officialdom.
Fortunately, I have been wrong and London and these games have been a joy and succeeded in lifting, if even for a moment, people’s sights about what can be achieved.
With the Paralympics still to come I hope this feeling can last a bit longer.
As Gandhi said: “A man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.”