Just call it off, you eggs

Bumper end of week edition: Quiz, Dismal Awards, Hall of Fame

And so this is Friday, and what have we learned?

Possibly, the government of Japan was listening to MTAF reader Paul Brislen - Hi Paul! - when he crisply wrote a couple of days ago:

Call the bloody thing off you eggs. 

For now the games proceed, but no longer with anyone in the stadium to give up the roar as the lonely marathon leader enters it. No doubt …