Thank goodness it's finally over, tv will now get back to some semblance of normality although it'll probably be discussed in depth for weeks to come. I wouldn't normally mind but you only realise how an event like this infuses so many aspects of tv when you try to avoid it. It replaced the news in a morning, it was on at work, and nobody cared that just a short while since, residents of the area which now proudly displayed flower beds were forced out of their homes into the streets with nothing but the possessions they could carry. Has the olympics become so prestigeous, that countries are allowed, and prepared to treat their citizens in this way, and the world convenienty ignores it.
