All that glitters is not gold

To compete at the Olympic Games is the pinnacle of every athlete's career. Years of training, dedication, effort, blood, sweat and tears go into the preparation for just a single event in a single meeting which rolls around every four years.

As athletes strive to go faster, higher and stronger, the fight to play host to the spectacle is just as tough.

The cities which win have an amazing opportunity to demonstrate their craft, logistical and engineering abilities and show off to the world the very best their city has to offer.

The latest city to use host city status as leverage to portray all that is good and why everyone should visit is Vancouver.

As has been found with other host cities, the organisers and tourism chiefs don't have it all their own way in the communication stakes.

As camera lights shine into areas which don't usually receive such intense world-wide attention, the opportunity for public grievances to be aired is presented like never before.

Running alongside the sliding down hills events of the Winter Olympics has been a well-organised campaign to highlight various inadequacies of the Canadian state machinery.

Despite the absurd claim from one politician that all protesters were akin to terrorists, the grass roots campaigners have made themselves heard on an international scale.

The Olympic circus next touches down in London in 2 years time, it's going to be interesting to see how things unfold.

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