London 2012 Paralympic Games

Sportsmen and women who have become familiar faces to millions of Britons during the Olympics and Paralympics celebrate their success at an open-top parade through central London.

For the past seven weeks an unloved area of industrial wasteland has been the centre of the world’s sporting action, but what next for the £300m Olympic Park?

It has been an amazing party – but now the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games are over, and the nation is facing a hefty hangover. What next? Let Channel 4 News be your guide.

With athletes from the north of Ireland winning most of Team Ireland’s golds, Channel 4 News asks why the region has bred such success, and looks at the UK’s golden Paralympic hotspots.

As the Paralympics winds down to a close, Channel 4 News digests those facts and figures making it such a heady success.

The Paralympic Games closing ceremony will bring the curtain down on an extraordinary sporting summer tonight – but not before British athletes make their final medal push.

One aim of London 2012 was to make more Paralympians household names. Has it worked? Channel 4 News takes to the Olympic Park in a highly unscientific experiment.

As the UK celebrates the most successful ever Paralympic Games, swimming supremo Ellie Simmonds tells Channel 4 News of the “massive buzz” of winning four medals and her hopes to inspire others.

The superhuman efforts of the Paralympic athletes prompts a positive swell in public attitudes to disabilities in the UK, according to a Channel 4 poll.

The purple outfits are being folded away, the giant sponge fingers consigned to storage. But what was it like for the 70,000 volunteers who made the London 2012 experience quite so special?

Swimmer Ellie Simmonds wins silver in the S6 100m freestyle final taking her medal tally for the Paralympics to two golds, one silver and one bronze.

How accessible is the Paralympics for blind people? Channel 4 News speaks to Geoff Long about his experiences of the Olympic Park.

Ellie Simmonds returns to the Aquatics Centre today, hoping to claim a third gold medal of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Tony Blair is interviewed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the Olympic and Paralympic Games and how they have changed the way the UK is viewed.

After the ParalympicsGB jubilation in the stadium on Thriller Thursday, there’s still plenty of gold medal hopefuls for Great Britain today.