“When you look at the benefit that the Games has brought, not just to London but across the UK in terms of business contracts and the Cultural Olympiad.
“There will be Olympic football at Hampden Park and the Millennium Stadium – and volunteers come from around the country.
“So there are a whole range of things that aren’t just London-focused.”
It is true that the organisers of the Games have made efforts to engage the whole of the United Kingdom.
Just last month, Glasgow hosted Music Nation – a celebration of music and sporting achievement attended by great Scottish Olympians of the past.
And Edwards also highlighted the Olympic Torch Relay, which aims to take the Olympic flame to within an hour’s drive of 95% of the country.
In Scotland, it starts in Stranraer, loops up to Stornaway and Shetland before leaving at Gretna.
But some surveys have indicated that, in general, Scots feel less connected to London 2012 than in other parts of the UK.
Of the people we heard from ourselves in Shetland, Aberdeen and Dumfries, some of the reasons they gave ranged from anger at the billions of pounds of costs, to the simple factor of geographical distance.
Some did feel it was a “Games for Britain”, while others did not subscribe to that ethos.
While tickets for events at the Olympic Park in Stratford are in high demand, the same, thus far, cannot be said for the only sport to be staged in Scotland.
A total of eight matches of the men’s and women’s football will be played at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
Tickets are due to go back on sale later this month following a retail holiday.
But, before that, BBC Scotland had learned that only 20,000 had been sold for the five days of competition.
One insider has also indicated private fears that there could be as many security staff as spectators at some of the women’s pool matches.
Games organisers, however, are relaxed about those sales – although they would not confirm numbers.
