"When considering a sport’s fitness to be an Olympic event it’s useful to apply the “does it really deserve to be here ahead of darts?” rule. The 800m is clearly better than darts. The javelin is free-range darts, darts in its most grandiose dreams of escape. A perspiring Austrian in a top hat doing horsey trot-trot to a supermarket music soundtrack is, let’s face it, some way short of darts."