I completely understand people who are sceptical about the legacy of London 2012. From the start, "legacy" was a neat bit of positioning by the bid team - the difference, arguably, between London's success and the failure of the candidacy from Paris.
But everyone knows that the success of the Olympic Games is judged most of all on sport and the image the host city projects to the world.
Whether the Village is lived in 10 years later or how much economic benefit was won by Atlanta or Athens will barely create a ripple on the global news agenda. Compare that with the indelible images of Michael Johnson, Kelly Holmes or Usain Bolt.
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Tomorrow died for Britain's rhythmic gymnasts on Tuesday.
A group of seven teenage girls who, with their parents' help, funded their own bid for Olympic glory, fell a minuscule fraction short of the standard required to reach London 2012 - missing their target by the sum of 0.273 marks.
If that sounds small, it is. The margin between the greatest success they could have imagined, reaching their home Olympic Games, and the horror of failure after all that time and money, could scarcely have been smaller.
Everybody cried. The girls, some of them lying prostrate on the floor in tears, hid behind a gigantic black curtain away from the crowd and media.
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For the latest in our occasional series of guest blogs, here's the man without whom the BBC 2012 site wouldn't be what it is. Mark Coyle, who runs our 2012 online operation, explains what's changing about it as we get closer to the year's big events.
Out with the old and in with the new - welcome to the new-look BBC 2012 site.
Our site launched in July 2010 with the purpose of showcasing the BBC's online, television and radio content arising from the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.
We've tweaked a few things since then but now, with the arrival of 2012 and the pace increasing by the day, we're going for the line with a bold new design.
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