It was pointed out with the type of robust opinion you would expect from Britain's Daily Mail that next July England will host the Gay Games, or "The Homosexual Olympics" as the paper insists on calling them.

Britain - and Ireland - will be well represented at the Waltham Forest event as around 3,000 plus competitors will take part.

Attention is also drawn to the fact that July is the month when the English cricket team will most likely be involved in losing a vital Test match, while the English soccer team should be watching the final of Euro 2000 on television. It is also the month when a British golfer will probably not win the Open and British tennis players will again struggle to attain the Centre Court holy grail. In fact, the Gay Games may be the only uplifting spectacle of the entire English summer.