I heard today on the ESPN TV broadcast that the World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world. It's led me to a very interesting idea: Which is bigger? The Olympics (Winter and Summer) or the World Cup? The Olympics have the best athletes in the world in most sports (Basketball, track and field, swimming, tennis in summer, Skiing, snowboarding, hockey, speedskating in winter) and of course The World Cup features the World's best soccer (or football) players.

This is obviously an Olympics forum, but the World Cup is currently up and running in South Africa and London 2012 is two years away.

So which sporting event do you think is bigger? Olympics or World Cup? I'm thinking that the World Cup is bigger. You see a lot of the world's best players on TV playing for their league teams every year, while with most Olympians (unless you are diehard) you don't see them all that much.

The International Association of Athletics Federations might have broken Eugene's heart and bemused Barcelona by deciding Doha's late �23.5m 'incentive' had given it the edge in the contest to stage the 2019 World Athletics Championships, but it did the rest of us a great service. Because by giving the Qatari capital the chance to stage a week of running, jumping and throwing, the governing body had to let them do it away from the blast furnace that is the Gulf state's summer. This means 'the world's third biggest sports event' will start on the last weekend of September, in the middle of Japan's hosting of the Rugby World Cup, which itself claims to be the 'third biggest sports event in the world'.