Yet India is reportedly suggesting that if it can't have an elderly, gray-haired British woman open the Games, it would like a verging-on - elderly, graying Indian woman to do so.

In a survey by the center of older workers who were laid off during the recession, just one in six had found another job, and half of that group had accepted pay cuts.

Most overuse injuries can be prevented or at least prevented from returning. (More than half of running injuries are actually reinjuries.)