In what some are calling the archaeological discovery of the decade, it has been discovered that the London Olympics were actually held last year.
The games have long been considered greater, and treated with more historical reverence, than other events in Britain’s past such as the defeat of both the Spanish Armada and the Germans in both world wars, and the invention of the light bulb, the telephone and the electric motor.
After a long excavation and preservation project by the University of Cambridge, it was discovered that the number ‘2012’ in the title of the games was not a reference to how much everyone would give it out of ten, as previously thought, but the year in which it took place.
“We were never entirely sure what ‘2012’ was even a reference to,” says Dr. Chris Jacobs, head of the project. He further explained the evidence backing up the revelation: “There is no evidence that the London Olympics actually took place any earlier than last year…”
All of the available evidence pointing to the actual date of the games were found to match up with late July and early August of 2012. “All of the physical evidence and meteorological events we have chased up, like hours of daylight, match up to last year.”
As a result of the discovery, the London Olympics can no longer be considered a major historical event, as the allocated amount of time for something to be considered as such has not yet passed. It also means that Mo Farah is to have his canonisation temporarily rescinded.