Bradley Wiggins has a lot to answer for.....

It's the God given right of every red blooded Englishman to wallow in a good health dose of cynicism. After all, what other use is there for experience, and I'm definitely at the age where experience fuelled cynicism has blossomed over the innocence of youthful exuberance.

As I recall. it was about seven years ago when London won its Olympic bid and the sudden wave of cynical emotions were of tsunami like proportions. Hot on the heels of the shamefully scandalous millennium dome, a rather expensive retrofit of the equally troubled millennium bridge and too many other hugely expensive public funded white elephants, a monumental foul up of global proportions was surely just a few short years away.

As the days ticked by and the unsightly carbuncle to the east of central London started to sprout  shiny new and unusual buildings, I began to get anxious that things were going too smoothly. Could I have misread the UK's propensity to screw up? Then, at the eleventh hour, came the G4S fiasco and the Korean flag foul up. Confidence in Britishness restored!

However, what came next was truly unexpected, both by me but I suspect by LOCOG too. Explosions of Olympic fever started to blow open the curtains of economic gloom and almost the entire country started to bask in a few short weeks of feel good sunshine. I say, "almost the entire country" as there always seems to be a few manic depressives that just couldn't resist the temptation to try and drag everyone down to reality. Morrissey, I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. Of course, we all know it's frothy media driven hype but let's not detract from efforts of the Athletes and volunteers who all performed beyond our wildest expectations. In this all too brief window, the focus of the World was on us, and for once we weren't being criticised for our thoughts, belief's or actions.

So for my part, I'm happy to bathe in the reflected glory of Team GB........... I just wasn't prepared for the seemingly enormous epidemic of middle aged, over weight males, dressed in Lycra, riding bicycles at high speed and wobbling all over the road.

Bradley Wiggins, you've got a lot to answer for!