After major bidding, London has won the right to host Olympics in 2012. I feel bad for Paris because they had already bid three times and lost. The irony is they have all the infrastructure in place and London has to build sports facilities to accomodate Olympics.

The one Olympics that I remember very well is the one conducted in Seoul. I was studying at school then. Our school Chairman had been to the Olympics as a spectator. While he came back he got a baseball with him from there. He had lodged the ball in the main school for sometime and I don't know what he thought, he decided to keep the ball in our school for the rest of the time. Our school was a christian convent but since it was in the suburbs it was small, the school's population must have been 600 or 700 then. We practically knew everyone there and it was like a small community. Any news used to spread like fire. We heard that the baseball was in our school and in the next PT class we wanted to play with it. There was a huge fight to get hold of the ball as our Principal refused to give it. It was a precious souvenir from Olympics and how can we lowly mortal students handle it. It should be revered and worshipped, not manhandled, rather ball-handled, that was the speech we got from her. Anyway, with lots of persuasion we got to play with it for half an hour!