And if the organisers had taken care to ensure that was the case by including judo in this year's programme (accounting for a quarter of Scotland's total medal tally) it would be churlish to quibble.
Europe is accounting for a member economy as if it were a dotcom circa 1997: by covering up all the bad stuff on the books, and then pointing to the rest as evidence of a money-making enterprise.
So, in 1983, for example, Labour was supported by newspapers accounting for only 22% of circulation - and they lost.
And on the right, Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina and others have attacked Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP's) "secrecy" and the lack of transparency in a deal involving 12 nations accounting for 40% of the world economy.
Cut through the euphemisms and the Treasury accounting, however, and you're left with two forms of welfare.
How and when to count commercial income is already one of the greyest of grey areas in accounting.
As Prem Sikka, professor of accounting at the University of Essex, argues: "If some used car dealer was engaged in a fraction of the shortcomings, warnings and scams that big accountancy firms have been involved in, he would be put out of business".
Last month, HP stunned investors when it announced it was taking an $8.8bn charge against the $11.1bn it had paid for the British company it had bought from Lynch the year before, and said that over $5bn of that write-off stemmed from "accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and misrepresentations" – charges all denied by its ex-boss.
The Cambridge-educated software entrepreneur also said that HP had otherwise failed to give more detail as to how it had accounted for the write-off and that HP's filing was "now less clear" on how much of the charge was "being attributed to the alleged accounting issues, and how much to other changes in business performance and earnings projections".
Four years ago in Cancún, Mexico, nations recognised the dangers of warming exceeding the 2C increase and more than 100 governments gave national pledges to reduce emissions, by 2020, accounting for more than 80% of the annual output of greenhouse gas pollution.
According to Eurostat, illegal activities such as prostitution and drug trafficking, together with accounting changes covering rather less gritty subjects such as pensions – could add about 1% to the GDP of Poland and Romania, 1%-2% to Spain and Italy, 3%-4 3%-4%he UK and as much as 5% to the GDP of Finland and Sweden.
