By Omulo Okoth
For 13-year-old Jesus D’Acosta, the London Olympics is the best thing that has happened to him. Just like many people at the games, D’Acosta is making history by attending the Olympics; it is his first time.
The Grade Seven pupil in an English-curriculum school in Bucaramanga, Colombia, is among hundreds of thousands of sports fans and tourists who have invaded London by trains, buses and planes just to be part of the Games, the world’s biggest sporting and cultural jamboree.