The scam of scams was always the Olympics: Berlin in 1936 to Beijing in 2008. Engines of regeneration. Orgies of lachrymose nationalism.
Sugar House Lane, Newham, E15
War by other means. Warrior-athletes watched, from behind dark glasses, by men in suits and uniforms. The pharmaceutical frontline.
From Iain Sinclair’s ‘The Olympics Scam’, The London Review of Books (June 2008)
