London Olympics 2012: special report

Carnivals and parties are happening across the UK as more Olympians return home after one of Team GB’s best medal hauls in the Olympic Games’ modern era.

Tickets for the Paralympic Games are selling out fast – so what is the best way of getting hold of one of the few remaining seats? Here’s our Q and A.

When the Olympics have lept their final hurdle, what do you do with all the kit? With the athletes now gone, the big London 2012 sell-off begins with flags, costumes and sports equipment up for grabs.

Now that the final medals have been won and the athletes have flown home, how would the medals table look if nations were awarded – and penalised – for other factors? Channel 4 News investigates.

Staff at the UK’s biggest airport are dealing with the challenge of getting thousands of Olympic athletes away on their flights home.

Resigned to transport chaos, security threats and eye-bleeding budget overruns, Britons basked in praise for hosting what the IOC called “the best Olympic Games ever”. But do foreigners agree?

The unprecedented security operation for the Olympic Games resulted in just one anti-terror arrest among a total of 276 during the 22-day policing operation.

The donation follows G4S’s failure to train and deploy enough Olympic security staff, forcing more than 4,700 members of the armed forces to be put on standby for the Games.

London’s Olympic Stadium is turned from an athletics track into a massive musical show to celebrate the end of the London 2012 Games.

Belarusian shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk is stripped of her Olympic gold medal after failing a doping test.

Know how many world records were broken at the Games? Answer this and nine other questions in our London 2012 quiz – and a life of pub quiz celebrity surely awaits you.

Now the hard work is over, Team GB’s athletes let their hair down and produce a fitting tribute to Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now.

The reclusive star is rumoured to be performing at the Olympics closing ceremony along with dozens of famous acts including the Spice Girls, Tinie Tempah and The Who.