YOU will be able to hear the roar for Fred Evans all the way down the M4 from London to Newport when he walks into the ring tonight.

And there will be an even bigger roar if the St Joseph’s Boxing Club ace beats world number one welterweight Taras Shelestyuk at the ExCel Arena to claim at least a silver medal in the final.

It is already an outstanding achievement for the 21-year-old to get at least a bronze medal for reaching the semis but to go one or, goodness help us, two better would be just astonishing.

Boxing has had its share of history in these Games, particularly with women competing for the first time.

But the ExCel is not the only place women’s history was made. Athlete Sarah Attar and judo player Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shaherkani may have finished down and out in their respective sports but they became the first female competitors from Saudi Arabia to take part in the Olympics. A massive step for that country.

  • During the last football season, a media colleague covering Swansea City’s first year in the Premiership explained how major teams avoid contact with their fans on match days.

“They get on the bus, it is escorted into the stadium to the tunnel, they get off and into the changing room, play their match, do their media interviews, then the players get back on the bus via the tunnel and leave, avoiding contact with the supporters,” he said.

How depressing. Yet here, at the Olympics, the stars are only too happy to mix with fans – and more!

Many will have their pictures taken with their medals around their necks, while a couple of American superstars have even been on public transport to get to their accommodation outside the Olympic Village.

The US basketball stars, including one million dollars a year ace Kobe Bryant, were pictured having fun with fans on a train to King’s Cross the other day, while one of their 400m athletes caught the bus to her East London rented house. How many Premiership players would do that?

  • And finally. The Games have been one big party for everyone – particularly the fans.

So, at the Olympic Stadium yesterday lunchtime, what do you do in an hour’s break between the end of the 4x400m relays and the final event of the morning session in the decathlon.

Get down and dance, that’s what! We had the ‘Bongocam’ – a pair of bongo drums displayed on the big screen with spectators inserted in the middle to pretend to play them.