THE LONDON OLYMPICS, 2012

The "Back the Bid" campaign to get the Olympic Games to London must have been successful. Those advertisement posters of a show jumper leaping their horse over Buckingham Palace, a hurdler negotiating over Tower Bridge and someone doing a high jump over the London Eye were very eye-catching.

How disappointed are the Olympic committee going to be when they find out that London is not, in fact, a model village, and that these posters were not to scale? Because, I think that's why London secured the Games for 2012. Who doesn't want to see athletes jumping over weenie, tiny buildings? The tiny M25 ring road utilised as a velodrome?

On that scale, of course, the Marathon route would take in most of Scotland. If nothing else, that would lead to some interesting race commentary...

"And the leaders are coming around the Outer Hebrides now, while, just behind the pack, Paula Radcliffe has just passed Cornwall. Yes, it's anyone's race, right now."