The stereotype goes that the British have always been better wordsmiths than artists. With ‘Winning Words’, Olympic organizers have tried to combine the two vocations, inscribing commissioned and existing poems nominated by the public around the Olympic site. The first excerpt to be selected was the last line of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘Ulysseys’: ‘to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield,’ which will have a permanent home on a wall outside the Olympic Village. Britain’s poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy contributed a new poem commemorating Eton Manor sports club, which will house training pools for Olympic swimmers and Paralympic wheelchair tennis: Duffy’s verse in brass letters on aged steel plates outside the Manor.