A reminder of the true values of the Olympics

At times you’d wonder how much more this Olympic ideal can actually take.

Never mind the Zika virus, with its golf-obsessed insects targeting putter-wielding targets to the apparent exclusion of everybody else; never mind the fact the laboratory supposed to target drug cheats in Rio is not fit for purpose, and will do no targeting at all; never mind, indeed, the fact that body parts are washing up on the beaches in the area. Specifically the stretch of sand to be used for beach volleyball.

Never mind the fact that the London games of a few years provided a wonderful springboard for the blond bloviator himself, Boris Johnson, to promote his image, one in a long line of dubious politicians attaching themselves to the Games and their dubious glamour. Never mind the decision to cut wrestling — wrestling, one of the original Olympic sports — from the Games, correctly identified by Katie Taylor as a blatant instance of the IOC selling its soul.