Ladies made lasting Olympic impression

Well, goodbye and good riddance to that week and no mistake.

With the Olympics over, Monday morning reverted to, well, just plain old Monday morning. No hopping, jumping or skipping. No diving, swimming or falling. Just the usual gossiping and shouting we normally see on our daytime TV screens, reruns of Murder She Wrote and endless hours of Come Dine With Me. Ho hum.

There’s lots more reasons besides for lamenting the loss of the games for another four years. Much though we love the game, the temporary escape they provided from the hegemony of soccer has to be chief among them. Up there, too, is the knowledge we will revert once again to sport’s patriarchal status quo where women are rarely seen or heard.