While each of the athletes walkingproudly through the Olympic stadium in London this Friday night are there to win (as they well should), they must also know that only a few of them will.
But all the debate over the architecture, the politics, the morality is irrelevant to the likes of Mr. Cunningham and the other old boys who tottered along to meet the queen, leaning on walking sticks or being pushed in wheelchairs, many with relatives proudly holding black-and-white photographs of them when they were young and brave-hearted.