Nobody wanted to spoil the party this week

It was generally a good week to be British, wasn’t it?

In fact, it was a mind-blowing week to be British.

When people go back over this week, they will recollect for one moment how we forgot about the drizzle, but remembered when we ruled the world.

We now have the most successful British Olympic team for as long as anyone can remember.

This is all very well, BUT (and this is a capital but) I do wish there weren’t so many disciplines in sports you know full well are not going to be practised by the majority of the world.

I love dressage. I think it is a fantastic sport. But you know full well that only a certain ‘rich’ percentage of the world are going to compete in it.

Then again, maybe they should have ‘backward rowing’ and ‘backward cycling’ too?

That way we could definitely lead the medals table.

For me, this week, the highlight had to be the two brothers who competed in the Triathlon.

Now, there’s a sport you have to be either mental to compete in, or very fit. If you are both, then it helps.

However, I do feel there was a sense nobody wanted to spoil the party this week.

What I also found quite strange is how everyone was up in arms about the doubles teams who wanted to lose their badminton games, but ignored the British fellow who admitted, after his cycling race, that he had purposely fallen over.

It was also amazing how there was a level of doubt over the Chinese girl who swam to her gold medal, but only praise for the teenage American and Latvian who upset the odds in their respective finals.

In the midst of all that, it was great how they managed to get some depressing news into the middle of the week.

The economy has come to a standstill, and the Coalition had a big argument over the House of Lords.

Who cares?