Those post-Olympic blues

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened”

-Dr Seuss (allegedly)

The Olympic Park has fallen quiet – at least until the Paralympics

It might seem a little strange that this blog, which, since its inception, has been eagerly anticipating the Games of the XXX Olympiad for its positive impact on sports like handball and judo, should have fallen silent for the last six weeks.

Handball at the Copper Box: This blog did a feature on handball last year, and it was one of the surprising successes of the Games

Fortunately, I have had the privilege to have been able to work at the Telegraph since the beginning of July, helping their (unrivalled!) coverage of the Olympics. This, along with a broken laptop and having stayed in a hostel for most of that time, has also meant I have been unable to update this blog.

The Olympics, a complete triumph in sporting and non-sporting terms for the UK, have also been a great success for Wales, with seven medals won by Welsh members of Team GB, the most ever. Jade Jones, the taekwondo gold medallist, became only the third Welsh female Olympic champion ever.

I have been looking forward to these Olympics since July 2005, and it is almost unbearable to think they have already gone.

I will be reflecting on the Olympic Games and my experience of them in due course, but I am still in London for the next two weeks at least, so a more considered reaction will have to wait, perhaps until after the Paralympics. They begin at the end of August, and the prospect that Great Britain will get behind them and make them the first sold-out Games in history is an exciting one.