Commentary The only major country consistently to emerge with credit from the Olympic Games is India. It wins very few medals, certainly in proportion to its population, doing hardly better in absolute terms than San Marino. The Indian government evidently does nothing to support or encourage its athletes: bravo, I say, long may it continue to do nothing! We will know that India has lost its soul once it begins to win Olympic medals; but for the moment it is a beacon to the world, a haven of sanity in a sea of sporting madness. The 2024 Olympic Games will be in Paris, assuming that they are not postponed a year because of the delay to the 2020 Tokyo Games—and viruses always permitting, of course. What is strange is that the Games, so-called (for they are not really games at all), induce a totalitarian state of mind in those who …