Among the five things we learned during the last day of the Olympics were, British pop musicians spanning two decades entertained millions around the world in the closing ceremony.

Among the five things we learned from the penultimate day at the Olympics are that an official tried and failed to take the relay baton away from Usian Bolt following the Jamaican's world ...

A towering, ultra-musculed athlete surged his way into legend on a balmy Thursday evening in east London.

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Usain Bolt is the showman incarnate. He played up for pre-race TV cameras as they rolled past and acknowledged the crowd with a few more gestures as his name was announced over the loudspeakers.

Today is the ninth day of the London 2012 Olympic Games. RFI's Paul Myers is there and here are his observations of the day's events.

Back in 1972, Mark Spitz wowed the Olympic Games in Munich with his seven gold medals. Thirty six years later Michael Phelps says he wanted to surpass that feat.

Today is the eighth day of the London 2012 Olympic Games. RFI's Paul Myers is there and here are his observations of the day's events.

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“It’s London, son. We embrace the rain,” bawled MC Curtis Walker.

“In truth, staging sports tournaments doesn’t make you rich at all,” write Stefan Szymanski and Simon Kuper write in their book Soccernomics.

Around one billion people are expected to watch Friday’s opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games.