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It's easy to find fault with the Games. For despite the hospitable welcome from the army of volunteers, the feeling of safety afforded by an efficient and courteous and ever-present security force, the simply breathtaking majesty of the mountain venues and the transformation of a Sochi swampland into an Olympic Park of audacious ambition, finishing touches are just not the local forte.
And just then, as you digest all this and prepare to consume another minute of your life trying to make sense of the size and cost of the IOC delegation, you step inside the Adler Arena and watch the Polish speed skating team practise on a fresh track. Their skates gently clap with each turn, their piston-precision both frightening and transfixing, their coaches bark instructions in unrecognisable languages, just like Steve Hansen.
All that Lycra in one place. Les Mills on ice.
Then you realise that yes, this is about money, and power, and politics, and temporarily frustrated biathlon writers with no running water, but it is also about an ideal - and that ideal is skating around an ice rink.
The Olympic movement wants to concern itself with the great problems of the world.
Yesterday it was world peace, tomorrow it will be the environment, lord knows what it will be the day after that, but what it really represents is simple: a chance for athletes to achieve something far more permanent than an accommodation snag or a badly laid footpath.
The Olympic movement's greatest achievement is providing a stage for champions to perform on and when these Games begin tonight, the sideshow will exit stage left and the spotlight will again shine on the real stars of the show.
That's when we get to understand what this means to the athletes - and what it means to them is far more valuable and uplifting than what it does to the corporates and the politicians - a lifetime's dedication distilled into a singular moment of everlasting glory.
So have the wheels come off the Sochi Games? Not at all. In fact, for the 3000 athletes here, including those 15 beautiful and inspiring New Zealanders - Dobbin, Eustace, Willcox, Sheehan, Sinclair, Sandford, Kuzma, Barwood, Gotlieb, Prior, Torr, Luxton and all the Wells' - who have shown us this week how to embrace the moment and just be real, the Games are about to begin.