Olympic Preparations Being Ahead of Schedule. One Kind of Pride but Is Cautious About the Other

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"He that is down needs fear no fall, he that is low no pride," wrote cheerful John Bunyan 400 years ago.

We might all be a little low at the moment thanks to world recessions, smouldering Middle East politics and goodness knows what else - but this week at least a few of us could glow in a little pride. Most English sports-lovers felt great pride in our cricketers early in the week when, for the second time in a row, they wiped out India - at present officially the world's best team.

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Olympic Preparations Being Ahead of Schedule. One Kind of Pride but Is Cautious About the Other

And how proud we are that the nation's preparations for the 2012 Olympics are deemed to be well on track one year before the big event. The great stadiums look amazing in the TV and newspaper pictures which we...

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