The Paris Olympics might be exactly what we need right now

The Globe and Mail’s Cathal Kelly has high hopes for the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris . He thinks that 2012 was the last great Olympics and right now, with so much conflict and division, the world really needs a global event to rally around .

He explains what the Olympics offer beyond the highest competition for amateur athletes, as well as, what Canada has to do to have a successful Games and which Canadians may end up becoming cultural heroes .