"Britain Tops Australia in gold medals." Not a headline from the Times or the Sun - rather one of the lead articles in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald.
Mark Spitz hailed Michael Phelps as "the greatest athlete of all time" after he equalled his 1972 feat of winning seven gold's in a single Olympic Games - Phelps then promptly won an eighth.
After 75 years east London's famous Walthamstow stadium faces closure this Saturday raising the question: why are we not taking care of our national institutions?