LOOKING at the results of the polls for London Welsh (70 per cent for) and the Olympic Torch (70 per cent against) highlights what an intelligent lot your readers are.

Readers support real competitive sport with little disruption to local people and can’t be bothered with over-hyped minority tosh. Well done.

I wonder how many believe, as I do, that the Olympics has got too big for its original purpose and, including professional tennis players and footballers, plus circus acts and synchronised swimming, denigrate the spirit.

Why don’t the various nations set up a fund and build a permanent home (in Greece), which can be renovated and improved every four years cheaply and quickly?

The infrastructure legacy argument does not stand up historically.

DAVID UNDERY, Thame Road, Great Milton