As for cricket, at least in Trinidad and Tobago, young people are not as passionate about the game or about the West Indies cricket team, as happened in the 1980s and 1990s. At the same time globalization, cable TV and the Internet are reminding us that we are one world rather than one region.
As you may know, Kelly Holmes trains in South Africa, and, by chance, my wife and I found ourselves alongside her at the security check at Johannesburg airport a few weeks ago. She was carrying her gold medals, and so had to produce them for inspection.