I have been conducting a very unscientific poll of the people I socialise with and have only managed to find 2 who are remotely interested in the Olympics. One of these is sports mad and will watch tiddlywinks if it's a national match, the other is one of the volunteers who will be at Old Trafford (Manchester) doing random blood tests. For this he has no previous experience and is not even paid ! I have spoken to over 100 people so this random unscientific poll suggests that less than 2% of the population could give a monkeys about the "games"