We’re faster, higher and stronger – together

kentonline editor

The Olympic flame has yet again ignited a fire within us all. Great Britain’s superlative/ sensational/spectacular Sunday (select as desired) was a day that will live long in the memory. Our sportsmen and women lit up the Rio stage, clinching six gold medals and eclipsing the marvellous efforts of London 2012’s so-called Super Saturday.

And I, along with a great many others, enjoyed a tremendous sense of pride as I stayed up until the small hours to watch an exhausted Andy Murray push himself to clinch the final gold of the day.

The games have not been without their controversies. We’ve had everything from stray bullets to swimming pools turning green and the Olympic village sexual escapades sounding more like a student university halls.

However, when you suddenly overhear people, who profess to have no prior knowledge of sport, waxing lyrical about the men’s omnium or the keirin – it is no bad thing.

The Olympics has proved once again it is a time when the UK comes together to celebrate its champions.

There is no prejudice – tweets flow and cheers roar for the Scottish and Welsh cyclists and rowers giving it everything alongside their English compatriots, for half-Jamaican Jessica Ennis-Hill or Somalia-born Mo Farah.

And the timing is almost perfect – after a bitter EU fallout, divisions within communities and threats of a Scottish referendum surely it must show us all we are stronger together.