THE BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES 2008

Beijing Olympics 2008

Watch highlights from the Beijing Games, including interviews with Britain's medal winners, video reports and amazing pictures of the whole event

London is the official host city of the 2012 Olympic Games in a spectacular closing ceremony in Beijing

Olympic athletes arrive home

Team GB arrive home to a hero's welcome at a cloudy Heathrow

London handover party

Hundreds of people gathered outside Buckingham Palace to celebrate the countdown to the London 2012 Olympics

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DeGale wins gold

Great Britain's James DeGale won gold in the middleweight boxing event

Heartbreak for Stevenson

Tae kwon do competitor Sarah Stevenson was given a second chance by judges before being defeated in semi-final bout

Gold for sailing duo

Great Britain's duo of Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson won a gold medal in the Star Class

Medals target overtaken

Swimming and windsurfing success carried Great Britain past UK Athletics' target of 35 medals.

Christine bagged another gold for GB

Christine Ohuruogu stormed through to win Olympic gold in the 400 metres

Gold for Hoy and Pendleton

Chris Hoy completed an Olympic hat-trick while team-mate Victoria Pendleton also won gold

Gold for Goodison

Sailor Paul Goodison claimed another Olympic gold medal for Britain in the Laser class

Boris in Beijing
London's mayor says he is "not intimidated" by the success of the Beijing Olympics
The Olympics' forgotten victims
Thousands of families were forcibly removed from their homes to make way for the Olympic stadium
Pre-Olympics controversy
China's One World ambitions looked shaky following its arrest of three US preachers and the expulsion of pro-Tibet protestors
Protesters breach Olympic security
British students breached security to stage a high profile protest over the sensitive issue of Tibet
Human rights fears persist for quake victims
Even as the Olympic torch passed through the province hit by the quake, campaigners were jailed for questioning the government

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Reporting from the edge

Our Sport correspondent Richard Pallot highlighted the difficulties of reporting on the Olympic action - from behind a fence!
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Behind the camera

Mark Austin gives a behind the scenes tour of the 24-hour ITV News operation in Beijing
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Out and about in Beijing

Alastair Stewart toured the city as it built up to staging the Olympic Games