Editor´s letter

Anyone who has taken one of the bus tours around the Olympic Park will know that the organisers really do love their facts and figures, from the 8.8 million tickets to the 2,000 relocated newts. But the one statistic I will remember concerns the 21 tonnes of cheese that will be consumed at the Games. It was such a pointless fact, that´s when I gave up trying to take them in. But I will sidestep some of the most useless statistics as I give you a quick tour around this special Olympics issue.