Cast your mind back to Thursday 26 July. Back then it’s probably true to say that a fair few people within the media (and some outside of it) were pretty negative about the Olympics. Maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but we certainly weren’t expecting the spectacular show Danny Boyle laid on for us.
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