The London Olympics has much to delight – but forget any talk of a legacy | Simon Jenkins

London 2012 is fun and competently delivered, but to think we'll ever recover the cost is like believing in Santa Claus

The Olympic Games is fine. The facilities at Stratford are as good as ever. The park, the flowers, the "Henman hill" are a delight. The opening was appropriately zany. Above all, television's celebration of youthful energy – when spared the endless BBC chat – is a diversion from the woes of the world. Nor is it fair to chide the athletes for Locog's incompetence, soldiers pac...