with a lavish firework display. usually the olympics is a time to bring countries together and celebrate athletic ability. the games also gives the host country the opportunity to showcase itself. china had pledged to deliver a "simple, safe and, splendid" games but did they achieve that? dr susan brownell is an expert on chinese sport and the olympics at the university of 0lympics at the university of missouri in st louis. she told me why the games were very success for china. the games were well organised, covid was kept under control — i think somewhat surprisingly, really, because that could have been a disaster, but after one week into the games, the rate of infection was dropping and very soon, they had zero new infections, so that was really quite a victory for them. and, yeah, everything went smoothly. there were spectacular sport performances. i'm not sure they could have asked for anything more than that. so, in terms of the sport, it went well. as you said — we've