Well, that’s it. The biggest party ever held in the UK is over and London raised the Games to a level the Brazilians are determined to equal.

South Africans, like people in most other nations, have widely differing views on what the government should be doing and how well it is doing it.

The organiser’s of Rio’s winning bid to host the 2016 Olympics has hit out at claims that there were ”invisible dynamics” behind the city’s win.