THAT was a rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish at the Chateau de Versailles. Writing from Charles de Gaulle Airport as I wait to board a flight back to Dublin, it is hard to sum up what the Olympics really mean.

Tuesday’s individual show jumping final had it all, heartache and immense joy. It was the elite top-end sportspeople going as hard as they could around the biggest track that most of them had ever seen. Many athletes who spoke to the media said they had never walked anything as big and technical as what Santiago Varela and Gregory Bodo built in the final and it’s safe to safe, I definitely never walked a track so big.