From Sonia Novo, Edinburgh, UK
I have to agree with fellow reader Sam Edge (Letters, 4 September). It was with some dismay that I watched Great Britain, China, the US, Japan and the Russian Olympic Committee claim medal after medal in the summer Olympics in Tokyo. I even wondered whether any other countries were competing.
The games were a stark representation of the inequalities of the world, even more so than in previous years. As it stands, they aren’t a way to bring the nations of the world together; they instead assert hierarchies. But then again, have they ever been anything else?
