I think I have said here before that what interests me about the Olympics is not so much the sport, but how it is ultimately a huge cultural festival: for two months or so every four years, the attention of the entire world is focussed on one city, giving it a unique chance to show off. Paris got it’s turn last year, and before that Tokyo, Rio and London. The problem is now, as I have been mulling over recently, an American city is next. Los Angeles is due to host the games in 2028, when Donald Trump will still be in power. It would frankly be sickening to see what is supposed to be a celebration of global unity and diversity being hosted by a country whose head is so xenophobic, arrogant and vainglorious, and who believes it’s rights come before all others’.

Of course, before now I had no problem with LA hosting the 2028 games, and in fact was looking forward to seeing what the Americans did with their opening and closing ceremonies. Hopefully by then they will have got over the horrific fires currently engulfing California. But now they have elected such an egotistical charlatan, I can’t help worrying that Trump will try to commandeer the games and make them all about him. After all, 2028 will be his last year in office: might he try to use the games to big himself up and feed his sickening ego? If so, the IOC could well have handed the world’s biggest cultural and political platform to the world’s biggest egomaniac, and I’m sure nobody wants to see that. People are already noting, for example here, the alarming fascist traits Trump and his cronies seem to be exhibiting – I can’t help worrying that LA28 could become another Berlin36. If so, I am starting to think it might be wise to reallocate the 2028 games.