Wrapped in a giant poster of “the golden” Usain Bolt and Nicola Adams, The Times was a glorious treat to wake up to. This was complemented by the front page photo of Charlotte Dujardin riding the now celebrated horse Valegro. I would have liked to have seen Jade Jones — the jewel from Flint who won a gold medal in taekwondo — on the front page too, albeit that her victory came late in the evening.
Simon Barnes’s talented narrative — yesterday on Usain Bolt’s 200m triumph — is equal to Andy Murray’s skill with a tennis ball. Eva Simpson in Times 2 joined in the joy of London 2012 and wrote about the 70,000 volunteer Games Makers and added another notch on the ladder