Highs and sighs of a dream

There are a lot of hoorays and sighes in the office as the most spectacular Olympic Games in history is taking place right in my home city.

For those of us who don't have time to go out into the venues, we try to steal minutes away from our desks to watch the competitions live.

Many of us could have been budding athletes in our teens, even though we bowed out at the last minute. A former young colleague of mine was once a teenage swimming champion in Beijing. Her swimming is no less beautiful than Michael Phelps'.