Just to touch upon one of my former favourite subjects, namely whether London could host the olympics again in the foreseeable future, I just came across this Torygraph article: IOC chiefs have apparently made a secret plea to use London 2012 venues as Rio 2016 Olympic Games fall worryingly behind schedule. An informal approach has been made by IOC chiefs to ascertain whether enough of the London 2012 Olympic venues could be brought back into use. If rio isn’t ready, the tried and tested London would be a logical back-up plan, I suppose, although as the article points out converting the venues back to games readiness would be a headache. It might even prove unfeasible, and rio might make the deadlines, although having another olympic games here might be cool. Either way, it does give you an interesting glimpse of how worried the guys at the IOC are about the state Rio is in and how ready thy are.

007 better start getting his parachute ready, just in case.