Is Mail's Olympic headline a taste of things to come?

IN the trade it's called a WOB - a white on black headline designed for maximum impact.

And few do it better than the Daily Mail.

In 72 pt type, just below the masthead, it screamed - One in three Olympic jobs goes to a foreign worker

I'm just fast-forwarding to 2012.

Imagine the Beijing medal table is replicated in London, would we see the following screaming editorial?

BRITISH taxpayers have been ripped off after foreign athletes plundered a staggering 911 medals at the London Olympics.

Despite spending more than £9.3 billion to stage the Games, home athletes won just 47 - placing them only fourth on the medal table at an unbelievable cost of £197 million each.

Shameless foreign athletes - who have been living in luxury at an all-expenses paid Olympic Village  - last night defended their tax-free bounty.

And blundering British Olympic Association officials admitted they were powerless to intervene......

James Toney is the Managing Editor of national press agency Sportsbeat and four-time shortlisted Sports Journalist of the Year.

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