Or it may be due to the fact that the Olympics games are becoming excessively boring, their “opening ceremonies” increasingly bizarre and the sports involved ever-more unsuitable and inappropriate (e.g. golf). Couple this with the drug problem (which is probably no worse this time than on many occasions in the past) and the hysterical TV coverage and it is little wonder the games are losing appeal. After all, once you’ve seen nine heats of the transgender underwater 265 metres short course ironing board surfing, it’s time to head off to the pub (where, hopefully, you’ll find that their telly’s broke).