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Chronicles of Fly– The Olympics edition

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Unless you live under a rock, I am pretty certain that you were captivated and enthralled by the sporting spectacle that was the 30 th Olympiad, hosted by those cultured and well behaved brits. I am also sure that most of you now know London intimately by now. Most of you know who Usain Bolt is, how fast Micheal Phelps can swim when chasing after Chad Le Clos, Mo Farrah is british even though he could pass for an Ethiopian and that beauty and elegance can run and damn! Can it run! Just looking at Alyson Felix makes me think naughty thoughts. Who can forget the opening ceremony, which was pretty much a world geography lesson. Who would have thought that Micronesia existed? Everyone was catered for, women swooned over David Beckham (even I swooned, did you check out the dudes Tuxedo? Twas pure class), James Bond and her majesty the Queen did some espionage (the real Queen, not DJ Zinhle), Rowan Atkinson did his best Mr Bean performance to date, I found out that it was a brit who invente...