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Mark Todd of the New Zealand Olympic team signs autographs (Photosport)

Parade for Kiwi Olympic team in Christchurch

Olympic medallists welcomed home

Tony Hadley, leader of the 1980's pop group Spandau Ballet fronts Team GB

Team GB sing ‘Gold” with Tony Hadley

Dutch hockey gold medallist Kim Lammers, left, was one of many singing the praises of the 2012 Games (Reuters)

Athletes call London Games best ever

Our Kiwi Correspondents in London

Me with Olympics volunteer Katie Preston

Pink and purple army

Me with New Zealand Keirin-bronze medalist Simon van Velthooven

Flying by the seat of their hot pants

The mental side of winning

This is the best photo I managed to get. I was competing with 3-year-olds on their parents' shoulders armed with cameras.

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Geri Haliwell of British pop group The Spice Girls performs on the top of a London taxi during the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games (Reuters)

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Jesse Eisenberg mistaken for Zuckerberg

Actor Jesse Eisenberg has been mistaken for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the gold medal basketball match.

Pop sensation The Spice Girls will be performing at the closing ceremony (Reuters)

Spice Girls to rock closing ceremony

Kiwi House to reopen after fire

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Kenya's David Rudisha and Jamaica's Usain Bolt (Reuters)

Rudisha would beat Bolt - Coe

South Korea's Park Chu-young (R) congratulates his team mate Kim Bo-kyung after he scored the second goal against Switzerland during their men's Group B football match in the London 2012 Olympic Games (Reuters/Alessandro Garofalo)

South Korean footballers to skip military service

A bed is seen inside a flat at the London 2012 Olympic Games Athletes Village in Stratford, east London (Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett)

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	•	•	•	Total
United States of America	46	29	29	104
People's Republic of China	38	27	23	88
Great Britain	29	17	19	65
Russian Federation	24	26	32	82
South Korea	13	8	7	28
New Zealand	6	2	5	13
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Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus was stripped of her gold medal after testing positive to the anabolic agent metenolone (Reuters)

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The Spice Girls sing together standing on the London taxis (Reuters)

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