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used to hate the first half of the Olympics. I always felt the swimming and gymnastics were holding up the excitement of track and field. This is almost certainly the fault of the British private school system. The day in the annual calendar that attracted the most fanfare was sports day. It fell just before the half-term break in the summer term, and so every parent would descend on my prep school, Ludgrove, park on the grounds in an infantry square,