How important are big sports events to a country's identity?
Most of the people I meet - and last week's itinerary included Southampton, Manchester and Leeds - are in favour of the Olympic Games being staged in London. It's the circles I move in, I know: in the nature of my job I comparatively rarely come across the sport-rejectors and 2012 sceptics.
But there's polling evidence that the UK's pro-Olympians are in a majority - and these Games are, in any case, emphatically on their way.
You can see just how much progress is being made on the official webcams.
I'm Roger Mosey, the BBC's director of London 2012. That means I'm overseeing all the BBC's 2012 preparations including not just sport but the Cultural Olympiad, our Olympic news and information services and everything that will bring the story of the London Games to audiences at home and abroad. I want to share here what we're planning - and debate some of the big issues.
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