Cynicism still rules

With each passing year, Jerry Maguire’s words ring truer.

If we cannot believe in a classical violinist turned Olympic skier after six months training aged 35, in what can we believe? We live in a cynical world. A cynical world.

Vanessa Mae assures us it is all nonsense, this ban and these suggestions that the races that sent her to Sochi were manipulated. But for how many famous millionaires is the dream of going to an Olympics as a “last-minute kind of thing” now dead? At least controvassy keeps her name out there, lest any more work fiddling at birthday bashes for human rights offenders should crop up.