On your marks, get set, go. Almost immediately after the announcement that London was to host the 2012 Olympic Games, one of the major news channels carried as headline news the assertion that the value of homes in the capital could now rocket by as much as two-thirds as a result of the successful bid.
In fact, in between all those fading pop stars taking to the stage in Trafalgar Square, the potential property boom and the opportunity to delight in the failure of the French, you could have missed the real story.
Thousands of miles away in Singapore, where the real action was happening, London 2012 had turned to youth. London was allowed 100 representatives in the voting hall, and bid leaders made sure that 30 of them were young people from the capital, led by 14-year-old Amber Charles, a promising basketball star from Newham, east London.
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