Sarah Sands: “What is political genius is Blair's intuitive championing of an obscure sport that has been the darling of the Olympic Games. Early reports of the Prime Minister's interest in beach volleyball were assumed to be malicious. But volleyball has captured everyone's hearts with its good natured, youthful silliness.”

The trampoline and synchronized diving, "sports" that Canada has won medals in, would be the first to go in my benevolent Olympic dictatorship. Beach volleyball on the other hand...you know, come to think of it, I haven't seen any of the men's competition, but that's okay: I hear that the men are wearing baggy, cover-all uniforms anyway, while women, are wearing tight, revealing "clothing". The scantily-clad dancers—which I've only seen in news reports, not that I watch the news or anything—are a bit absurd, but only slightly. Sexist? No question. But can you guess which sport got me watching the Olympics in the first place?