Telander: Cue the usual host-Games celebration in LondonReported by Chicago S-T on Tuesday, 14 August 2012 (on August 14, 2012)
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HEADING HOME FROM LONDON — No bomb went off, no terrorists did anything (that we know of), no missiles were fired, no mass arrests were made. Any Olympics that pulls that off automatically starts with a grade of B. But such is the anxiety and civic breath-holding that goes with the planning and execution of the traveling global road show that when nothing horrible happens, when things basically go as planned, the new host city tumbles down the stairs of hyperbole in shocked relief and double-jointed, shoulder-dislocating, back-patting self-praise. ‘‘WE’RE WORLD BEATERS!’’ the London Sun said Monday. ‘‘BEST OF BRITISH …
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