Nope. You’ve never read that as the headline about any sport, anywhere. As a short-legged, big-hipped young girl I realised no sport was calling out for my participation and lost interest, fast.

The truth is, I have watched a tennis game here and there; I’ve watched one or two wrestling matches; I sat through a few baseball games when I lived in Cincinnati; I think I watched a British soccer game in 1968; I once went to the filming of a figure-skating competition – and walked out after the fourth time the filming was stopped because a skater fell over yet again.

If I’m in front of a tv that’s on and it’s showing cycling in a velodrome or ice skaters in a skating race (the one where one arm seems to be attached to the skater’s back while he swings the other, all the time bending forward), I might stop and watch for a moment.

I definitely don’t like to watch horses jumping over obstacles, either in a race or in show jumping and dressage seems to be a wee bit mad – what with the horse stepping sideways or curtseying. Such unhorsey behaviour!

I do, though, quite like watching dogs running around an obstacle course with their owners running as well……one sees some well-behaved dogs and occasionally a silly dog, doing a bit of comedy for laughs.