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The Mayor of London has gotten a little excited (predictably) about one Olympic event in particular:

“there are semi-naked women playing beach volleyball in the middle of the Horse Guards Parade immortalised by Canaletto. They are glistening like wet otters”

And don’t even get us started on “bell-whanging”…

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