Last night I was thinking about Paris, and I started to think about the London attacks of July 7, 2005, about this entry, written a day or so after, and about how London bounced back. And bounce back it did: London went on to see glories it had never seen before. Having been awarded the games the day before those dreadful attacks, just seven years later, London hosted a truly monumental Olympics which I’m proud to have been here for and to have been part of.

Paris will do the same. Paris will bounce back to glory, just as London did. Of that I have no doubt; for Paris is a fine and beautiful city, easily the equal of London on the world stage. If 2012 was London’s year of glory, surely Paris’s will now come soon; it will no submit to terror, but hold it’s head higher than ever. I can’t wait to see what it will now produce: if London is anything to go by, it will be magnificent.