Party's over

And so that was the London Olympics, then. Good for Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis, not so good for the BNP. Shame, that.

Given the impact Danny Boyle's opening ceremony made, and all the plaudits it garnered, it was perhaps inevitable that the closing ceremony would be a bit of a car crash. "Wayne Hayes, a middle-aged sales executive from Carlisle, has expressed regrets about the Olympics closing ceremony beamed directly from his brain", chortled the Daily Mash.

Far more scathing was musician and firebrand Chris T-T's verdict: "a numbing, disheartening disaster. The biggest floating turd we ever did whiff; reducing, demeaning and re-squishing Britain, at the very moment we’d felt shifted long-term for the better by these liberating Olympic Games. In one fattened pig of a gong-show, Gavin forced us back into clunky shackles that Boyle and Boyce briefly, tantalisingly freed us from, only a month ago. Far worse than just being bad, what unfolded was – I think – proper fucking dangerous. You know that phrase: the banality of evil."

There's been a lot of talk of legacy, and with the Games over, it'll be interesting to see what the future holds for the various venues and sites constructed or modified specifically to host certain events. You'd hope none of them feature in photo galleries like this one.

And finally, you'd imagine that after his triumphs in both the 5000m and 10000m it would be Mo's rivals who would be running scared - but one site suggests otherwise.

(Thanks to Faith, Del and Ann for the links.)