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Paralympics: the USA finally engages
Firms including Visa and General Electric use athletes in advertising as disabled veterans tap into patriotic sentiment -
London 2012: Olympic photographic highlights
Award winning Guardian and Observer sport photographer Tom Jenkins at the London 2012 Olympic Games -
Mo Farah looks forward to Rio - video
Double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah said it was all 'slowly sinking in' after another win at the Birmingham Diamond League meeting
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Paralympic rings unveiled – video
The symbol of the Games, the agitos rings, are suspended from Tower Bridge in London -
Brick-by-brick
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The best of Olympic brick-by-brick – video
After a phenomenal sporting fortnight, we look back at some of the standout performances -
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London 2012: the USA's gold medals
The USA won 2012 Olympic gold in 46 events. Here are those champions...
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Philippa Perry
It is time to look past disability
Events like the Paralympics can help the able-bodied confront their anxiety about disability -
Joan Smith
Olympians don't need honours
Medals are enough – demands for knighthoods and damehoods reflect a culture of excess -
Robert Skidelsky
Economic lessons from the Olympics
Can governments' commitment to 'picking winners' in sports be replicated in economics? -
Chris Brooke
Olympic politics: mine or yours?
Take a bow, commentariat – you have turned the Games into support for every political stance
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Art and design 50 days ago
Row over Olympic cauldron design settled out of court
23 Jul 2014:Exclusive: Locog acknowledge work of design firm Atopia, but Thomas Heatherwick remains adamant the design for the Olympic cauldron was his own, writes Oliver Wainwright
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Commonwealth Games 2018 56 days ago
Zoe Smith: I’m going hell-for-leather for gold at Glasgow Games
17 Jul 2014: The Greenwich-born weightlifter said she was aiming for the world top 10 so she could reach the Rio Olympics under her own steam -
Social networking 97 days ago
I still get abuse from Twitter trolls, says Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington
6 Jun 2014: Olympian admits insulting tweets from women upset her most and calls for more monitoring of abuse on social networking site
Latest from the London 2012 blog
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London 2012: what has the legacy of the Olympic Games been for you?
25 Jul 2013:It's been one year since the London 2012 Olympics began – tell us your experiences of how the Olympic legacy has impacted on your life – leave a comment or contribute via GuardianWitness
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Regenerating London: to think big, think small
28 Mar 2013:Danger signs are already there that Olympic legacy promises aren't being kept to the people of the East End. How can regeneration policies be improved?
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A green way past the transforming Olympic park
7 Dec 2012:The re-opening of the cycle and pedestrian path past the Olympic stadium marks the start of the long transformation of the park into a new public space
Latest Olympic diaries
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Six months after London 2012 ended where are our Olympic diarists now?
11 Feb 2013:Some of them have been enjoying a break after the excitement of the Olympics but others have been forced to work hard to secure the future of their sport after losing funding
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Bobby White: 'Has the Olympics been worth the effort? Undoubtedly'
10 Aug 2012: The GB handball captain is ready to build a legacy, but can't quite believe London 2012 is over after all that work
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Second Screen: your indispensable London 2012 companion
Live blog updates, tweets from our Experts' Network, superb pictures, and results as they happen – all in a beautiful sliding interface accessible on Desktop, Android tablet and iPad
Latest features
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The first Briton to win Olympic gold in taekwondo tells Anna Kessel she did not realise how much the pressure would affect her but a change in attitude has made her an even more formidable competitor -
2012 Olympic venue is relaunching with a swim for as little as £3.50, as well as providing training facilities for elite athletes
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The Olympic gold-winning boxer, 31, on sport for women, her fear of spiders and what she owes Muhammad Ali
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The American relives with Anna Kessel the moment she stunned the world as a 15-year-old at the Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympics
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A behind-the-scenes look at our series
Designer Fabian Moritz explains how our brick-by-brick series of animated sporting highlights is put together -
All-American beach volleyball final on Horseguards Parade
An animated reconstruction of highlights of the women's beach volleyball final, which saw Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings win their third consecutive gold medal -
Iranians win gold and silver in weightlifting after German falls
An animated reconstruction of highlights of the agonising contest to be crowned the strongest man on the planet -
Weight falls on German athlete's head
The agonising contest to be crowned the strongest man on the planet -
Bolt wins gold in 100m final
Usain Bolt seals his status as the world's fastest man by winning the 100m gold in 9.63sec -
Team USA's Fab Five vault to gold
The women's gymnastics final, which saw the USA beat Russia and China with a near-flawless performance -
Fencer Shin A-lam's sit-down protest
The women's épée, in which South Korea's Shin A-lam remained on the piste in tears for over an hour in protest at the result -
Men's basketball: USA v France
The USA's first match of the tournament, in which the favourites beat France 98-71 -
Phelps wins 16th gold in 200m IM
The final of the men's 200m individual medley, which saw Michael Phelps win the 16th gold medal of his career -
GB men's coxless four defend title
The final of the men's coxless four, which saw Pete Reed, Andy Triggs Hodge, Tom James and Alex Gregory gloriously retain their title against strongest rivals Australia and USA -
Building the Guardian's stadium
Watch the construction of our sporting venue take shape over the course of three days
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Could you be a medallist?
See how your personal bests compare against the all-time greats - and whether your time would have ever earned you a place on the podium
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London Festival 2012
Cultural programmes and projects inspired by the London 2012 Games
Latest multimedia
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London's Olympic village: first residents move in - video
The first residents of Stratford's East Village show us around their new homes - flats originally built to house 23,000 athletes during London's Olympic Games in 2012
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