So, how are we all?

The non-para part of the London 2012 Olympics is over. What have we learned?

1. Now there are no beautiful, talented and healthy people to watch on television there is nothing worth watching on television.
2. The closing ceremony was rubbish. (Now is the Winter of our discontent).
3. Twitter made the closing ceremony extremely enjoyable. (Made glorious Summer by this son of York).
4. I notice that I have difficulty not making cultural references whenever I write these days. (Strictly speaking this point is not about the Olympics, and would probably be better placed in a footnote).
5. I don't know how to do footnotes in Squarespace.
6. People with the self-discipline, skill and team spiritedness required to reach the top level in their sports tend to be both admirable and amiable. Or perhaps the non-amiable one don't get interviewed.
7. I wonder if the people of Panama get bored in December each year when people from around the world start wishing them a Merry Isthmus, assuming that it's the first time anyone has made that joke.
8. I don't know what anthem would have been played if an independent athlete had won a gold medal at the Olympics.
9. At times during the cycling events I found it hard not to pump my legs in sympathy with the riders. This probably has something to do with mirror neurons. I still find it vaguely embarrassing though.
10. And that's about all I learned during the Olympics.