Hi,

if it doesn't sound like a totally stupid question... why are there Games going on at this time of year? Is it not too cold? Or am I just not thinking tropically enough?

Here in Northumberland, it's blimmin' freezing, with gale force winds scouring the frostbitten birds off the treetops and lashing the rain horizontal. I'm assuming that can't possibly be the case with the Games that have been happening in the US (like the Queen Mary and now this one) over the last couple of weeks, otherwise there'd be no audience, just a bunch of frozen, soaking-wet athletes huddled in the middle of a big empty showground...

Actually, that sounds a bit like the afternoon of the North Berwick Games last year... absolutely poured down for the Heavy Events!