Images with a slogan reading "Paris is getting ready for 2024," referring to the 2024 Olympic Games that Paris was awarded, are projected on the Arc de Triomphe monument during a laser and 3D video mapping show as part of the New Year celebrations in Paris on Dec. 31, 2017. Guillaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images
The only major country consistently to emerge with credit from the Olympic Games is India.
Theodore Dalrymple
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Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”