"Swimming pool closed tonight, reads the sign outside Much Wenlock Leisure Centre. Up the stairs, on the noticeboard next to the PE office, a message scrawled in felt-tip pen announces: 'Mrs Jardine has given birth to a girl. Mother and baby are well.' Along the corridor in the sports hall, Ann Smith is doing very well, thank you, considering that the opening event of the weekend's Wenlock Olympian Games programme has become unexpectedly stuck in a pregnant pause."

(Via Much ado about something - forget London, these are the real Games - Independent Online Edition > Olympics: .)

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