The Olympic myth: why the Games fail to get people fit

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The Olympic myth: why the Games fail to get people fit
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🏃The 2012 Olympic Games in London promised to 'inspire a generation' to become more active. Sadly, it never happened

Over the next fortnight we are about to be inspired. We will see Dina Asher-Smith hurtle across the Tokyo athletics track, Adam Peaty plough through the water in the Olympic pool, Laura Kenny fly round the velodrome and immediately we will pull on our trainers, slip into our swim gear, climb aboard our bikes and get out there. Sport here we come. The nation is about to get fit.

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