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Your Saturday British Newsstand

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Saturday’s selection of British fishwrappers, straight from my Tottenham Court Station news vendor to your screen …

This will go down as the day the tabloids stopped caring about the Olympics, but the Guardian at least saw fit to do a “feelgood” story and put Mo Farah on its cover:

In the U.S. we’re waiting for the hoops final; in Great Britain all their attention is on distance running and diving:

More Mo in the Independent, and this is a first: The Mail ignores the Games altogether.

Like the Mail, the Sun and Mirror are all over this Tia Tragedy, using the rest of their cover space with some combination of Kate Middleton and passing Olympic references: