London's Olympic excitement - in pictures
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The Olympics are over, and now London’s getting all excited about us doing our bit for sport in a few years. Here, thanks to our friends at Londonist, we present a whole bunch of photos for you to gawp at mindlessly, representing all the stuff that happened in London over the long weekend to mark the hangover. We mean handover.
In Beijing, there definitely was a bus. There was also a Beckham. There was a Boris. There was an apparently ununfurlable and tricky-to-wave flag. There was a football. There were two little girls. There was a funky film. There was some dancing. There was a Leona Lewis and some guy from Led Zeppelin. And suddenly, there it was. After just eight minutes, Beijing was over and everyone suddenly turned to London.
Time for a bit of a nervous gulp, then. Here in the capital we responded by getting 40,000 people crammed in around the Queen Victoria Memorial in front of Buck House and down the Mall to wave flags and watch the live-feed from Beijing, before taking over the BBC for the day with our own musical acts, and interviews with athletes like Bradley Wiggins and Michael Phelps who was on his first trip to London.
See the photos here
