:Seems strange to me, too, but I'm not British. In any case, it's more to do with defining (or at least measuring) national pride, and doesn't do much to help a reader understand the baby. When I read it, I understood the Olympic comparison as something like a 8/10 for patriotism, but after clicking on the lock-in Wikilink, seems like a 4. If it weren't for the outside news world, I'd have come away thinking the baby was a 6. 

 :Would there be a problem with simply saying it was a major patriotic event, without comparing it to anything specific? Less room for opinions to muddy things that way.   00:12, July 23, 2013 (UTC)