I finally got around to reading a book vital for any disciple of the Olympic Movement on a long-haul flight last week: Richard Pound’s Inside the Olympics: A behind the Scenes Look at the Politics, the Scandals, And the Glory of the Games.

I have just had a wonderful experience that I want to share with you.

The mighty Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has spoken.

Thomas Bach is presenting the expansion of the powers of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as a fait accompli, even revealing yesterday that he hopes it will be up and running in February 2018 to coincide with the opening of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

By this time next week astronaut Tim Peake should be orbiting the earth on the International Space Station which is due to be launched from Kazakhstan. And on April 24 next year, the date of the Virgin Money London Marathon, this 43-year-old Briton plans - through a combination of a treadmill, a harness and a digital running app – to become the first man to run a marathon in space.

I feel that I can say with some confidence that the high performance system in the UK is in as strong a place as it has ever been to my memory.

When Daniel Jacobs, a 28-year-old practicing Presbyterian, retained his WBA world middleweight title with a first round stoppage over Peter Quillin in Brooklyn last Saturday, his first words were: ”First of all I’d like to give thanks to the Man above.”

Most medal winners at this weekend’s World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Grand Prix Finals were naturally preoccupied with end of season celebrations following their competitions, or with watching their team-mates while finding somewhere to deposit the large sombreros awarded as part of the podium ceremony.

I was somewhat surprised, therefore, to spot China’s under 49 kilograms champion Wu Jingyu handing out a flyer covered with pictures of her alongside the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, Thomas Bach, the morning after her victory.

Working your way through the 240-page “superseding indictment” unveiled last week by United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch by way of a powerful aftershock to the earthquake that laid waste to the FIFA Congress in May, it would be all too easy to form the view that we should disband FIFA and start all over again with governance of the world’s most popular sport.

At around 2:00pm local time last Friday (November 27) in front of a packed Adelaide crowd, Australian Mitchell Starc made history by bowling the first-ever delivery with a pink ball in the inaugural international day-night Test match.

USA Weightlifting chief executive Michael Massik said last month that the ultimate aim of the National Governing Body in preparing for the recent International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Houston was to make them the "most memorable" of all time.

So the thing I want to address here, the subject on which I wish to animadvert, that is, my main concern vis-à-vis this particular article, in short, and to put it bluntly, is - sorry if anyone is finding this a tad irritating - time-wasting.

I may be in a minority of one in the United Kingdom right now, but I have always found the Davis Cup a rather unsatisfactory and unsatisfying competition.

Two historic events of global significance at the weekend have left British sport punching the air.

First, Tyson Fury’s impudent acquisition of Wladimir Klitschko’s triple world heavyweight crowns seems to have "shook up the world" just as another underdog, Muhammad Ali, did when he upset all the odds to dethrone the so-called unbeatable ogre that was Sonny Liston half a century ago.

Then Britain's Andy Murray-led Davis Cup tennis squad defied the spectre of terrorism to claim the sport’s biggest team prize, one that had eluded the nation for over three quarters of a century.