I DO like a good liveblog. For those of you not familiar with this relatively new concept, I should explain that it’s a way of delivering breaking news coverage online which allows readers to join in the discussion by making comments on the unfolding events.

We do it occasionally at the Examiner – for instance when it snows, during council election counts or when there’s a juicy planning meeting.

You may have seen last week’s liveblog of the Holmfirth Tesco decision where Yours Truly was busy hammering away with updates from the council chamber.

They’re a great way for journalists to keep people updated about breaking news. But that’s exactly the point of a liveblog – it only works if there’s something happening to begin with.

So I was a little surprised on Monday to find that The Guardian had launched its rolling news tool with the headline: “London 2012 Olympics: four days to go – live!”

As the title admits, the event getting the breaking news treatment wasn’t due to begin for another 96 hours.

So whatever did journalists at The Guardian find to liveblog about all day?

“14.36: This just in: London 2012 hasn’t started yet.

“14.38: Breaking news: Still no Olympics, but we can reveal that the games are now two minutes closer than they were when we last updated you.”

If Monday’s liveblogging at The Guardian is any indication of the level of media interest in London 2012 then it’s going to be a long, long two weeks for many of us.

The supporters of this absurd jamboree assure us it will be a global celebration of sport, but will it?

Let’s start with the obvious weakness that many of the world’s most popular games – cricket, golf, both forms of rugby – won’t even be feature at the Olympic Games.

It’s true that the world’s leading sport will be on offer at London 2012, but the football tournament is devalued by the fact that the teams are essentially under-23 sides with three senior players thrown in.

The competition will pale in comparison with the delights served up by the game’s true elite in Poland and Ukraine just a few weeks ago.

There may be the odd game in the next fortnight which matches the knockabout fun of games like England versus Sweden at Euro 2012.

But nothing at the Olympics will come close to rivalling the majesty of Spain’s 4-0 destruction of Italy in Kiev.

The punters know this – but the organisers only appear to have grasped this fact late on.

For instance, the first game in the men’s Olympic football takes place between Mexico and Honduras at Hampden Park tomorrow. At midday.

Believe it or not, tickets are still available at £20 a pop. Turns out it’s quite hard to persuade 50,000 people to pay to watch two youth teams play each other in the middle of a working day.

In the interest of fairness, I should note that there are some Olympic events which have shifted all their tickets and where the punters’ cash will earn them the right to watch the best in the world.

Let’s take a look at some of them. We’ve got running a long distance, running a fairly long distance, running a really short distance; jumping over a bar, jumping into sand, jumping three times into sand; throwing a big stick, throwing a heavy ball and throwing a metal Frisbee.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait. You can save your last-minute overhead kicks, your length-of-the-pitch tries, your tense run chases and your 18th hole deciders.

Someone’s going to throw a big stick. Sign me up.

You may have got the impression that I find the core Olympic events about as exciting as a night on the town with John Major. And you’d be right.

I have no interest in who can run the fastest or jump the furthest.

But that’s not to say I begrudge those of you who do enjoy watching track and field.

Good for you. Each to their own and all that.

But why do you need something called the Olympic Games?

Don’t you already have something called the World Athletics Championships? Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that the competition where you find out which hulking mass of muscle can throw the Frisbee the furthest?

Why couldn’t you track and field enthusiasts just have left it at that?

Did you really need to inflict a whole other tournament on the rest of us at a cost of £9.3bn? Did you really have to close off all those lanes of traffic, put those missiles on those tower blocks and bully that baker just because he made a window display with five bagels?

This Olympic kerfuffle had better be worth it.

For £9.3bn, I’m expecting someone to throw that Frisbee so far that it ends up in orbit.