Let more play

One more day to go before the Games closes and there is little doubt China will end up being the top gold snatcher this time around.

No doubt this is worth cheers. Not just that our athletes have won more golds than even the boldest of us had imagined. We feel a lot more elated seeing them excel in areas we thought impossible.

But let us not be carried too far away from the sober truths - on the one hand, there is the so-called host country effect; on the other, we are way behind many others in many fields.