Nobody can argue with any conviction that the Commonwealth Games represent the apogee of athletic endeavour. This is a spectacle where the lawn bowls team from Niue, a tiny lump of coral in the south Pacific, is captained by the nation’s 54-year-old premier, and where the delegation from Norfolk Island features a sixth-generation descendant of the mutiny on HMS Bounty.

It is roughly what a repertory theatre production of the Olympics might look like.

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