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By Ed Warner Ancient Roman satirical poet Juvenal had me bang to rights. Dose me up on bread (artisanal, white sliced, whatever) and sporting circuses and you’ll have me tamed. Lucky, then, that I live in the UK, successive governments here having committed to a rolling programme of hosting international events. Funding agency UK Sport, which holds the pen and some of the purse-strings, has just made a timely pre-election pitch for this bandwagon to keep on trundling. Dare any future government deny us our sporting fix? The events team at UK Sport and their outside consultants have set out Bri…