Olympic memory

By The Newsroom

Published 11th Aug 2012, 16:52 BST

I WAS at the 1948 London Olympic Games, a privileged child. I went to the opening/closing ceremonies and every day of the athletics.

I have wondered many times these past weeks how my parents could afford the tickets.

My abiding memory of the opening ceremony is of the children being invited down to the track side to open the baskets from which hundreds of doves flew.