TY - JOUR T1 - All that glisters … JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 808 LP - 808 VL - 54 IS - 507 AU - James Willis Y1 - 2004/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/54/507/808.abstract N2 - ‘This is why we watch the Olympics’, said Mat, my son-in-law, when Kelly Holmes stormed past the field round the outside of the final bend to win her second gold medal. A few minutes later our relay team beat the US by an infinitely-important inch and, in spite of Steve Backley coming fourth in the javelin, we finished that super Saturday feeling like a million dollars. I don't know whether anybody died of excitement watching but it's hard to believe it didn't do the rest of us a heck of a lot of good.It's great to be winning. It's great to be top. And just at the moment, through the mental trick of identifying ourselves with a rather satisfactory number of successful athletes, we do have that feeling of vicarious victory, almost as … ER -