Britain doesn’t do well in winter sports. We don’t have the climate, and so we don’t have the tradition. And yet a young woman called Amy Williams from Bath won a gold medal in the recent Winter Olympics. This is a superb achievement and she is to be congratulated. The media, of course, is oozing all over her; and so the delusion begins.
A TV channel interviewed her mother today. She said that they had received ‘the most amazing support.’ Even complete strangers had been approaching her in the street and offering their best wishes. This isn’t support; this is little more than people wanting to associate themselves with success and celebrity. Had Amy Williams been revealed to be the worst serial killer in history, and had those same strangers still approached and offered their support to her parents, then I would be impressed.
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