The few academics who have not decamped to the south of France for August have been able to watch the Olympics action live on their PCs.
The Joint Academic Network joined forces with the BBC to provide images of sweaty sportspeople weeping by the roadside in Athens for those still beavering away in their labs. Comforting proof that there are worse fates than becoming an academic?
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