WHY DELUDED EU FANATICS THINK THEY’RE THE BIG WINNERS...

BRUSSELS boasts that the EU is the world’s strongest sporting power and has the Olympics in the bag.

Deluded fanatics said athletes should sport the bloc’s flag when competing in Tokyo.

They said the 27 EU countries had scooped as many as 229 medals, beating Britain, the US and China. Arch-federalist and Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt said: “I’d love to see the EU flag next to the national on athletes’ clothes.” Polish MEP Radek Sikorski posted an unofficial social media medal count, saying: “EU rules OK.”

But actually the UK is the best-performing European country at the Games.