Esa-Pekka Salonen,the Finnish conductor, will carry the Olympic torch on its penultimate day into London.  He told the folks back home in the ‘Helsingin Sanomat’ that his triumph is a tribute to careful diet: ”A nice beer and years of ryystäminen and b-class food sausage eating will eventually be rewarded,” he says (something may have got lost here in Google translation). See full article here

Photo by Chris Christodoulou