The Hitler Olympics fill me with ~feelings about state propaganda, bread & circuses, and so on and so forth. (The last primary school I went to, the Headmaster - a gentleman universally known as the Colonel - had been called upon to translate for Hitler as a 20-something army officer who had taken a couple of Blues and bust his Olympic hopes in a skiing accident, and apparently took a violent dislike to him. The Colonel had a very powerful personality. I hope he made the Fuhrer's life as difficult in 1936 as he did in 1939-1945). But I do think the relay is a great way to share the actual physical presence of part of the Olympic Games with a lot of people who might not otherwise come within a mile of it, and that using it to recognise people like Muaaz Khan is a great idea.