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Nice to mod you! Cycling hero Bradley Wiggins parties with his music idol Paul Weller as Team GB let their hair down Mirror

There needs to be "a big cultural change" towards sport in schools if Britain is to capitalise on Team GB's Olympic wins, David Cameron has said. BBC



School playing fields: 21 sell-offs have been approved by coalition

• Michael Gove agreed sales despite pledge to protect pitches
• Pressure builds on coalition to rethink sports strategy - Guardian
Buardian

Stop selling school-playing-fields then!

It was on this forum (no accounting for taste, as my mother used to say.. ) that I announced to the world that London was successful in its bid to host the 2012 Olympic games. (As I may have mentioned before, no-one else...in the entire world...posted the news before me...I matched the BBC website to the tenth of a second).

And now, seven years later, I am so thrilled that today Ireland won a gold medal, thanks to the wonderful and inspiring Katie Taylor, a girl from my own home town. I've known her mum for years, and you couldn't come across a nicer family and a more worthy champion.

Well done Katie Taylor. God bless you!

BBC red button Olympics: dressage, women's wrestling and judo

I was reluctant to watch the top-hatted toffs in the dressage, but the magic button won me over and now I want it on all TV Gaurdian

London 2012: Team GB's Success Could Be Turning Point For Women's Sport huffingtonpost

By Tony Parsons Mirror

Tony Parsons column The time of our lives: The barriers that divide us came crashing down in just a fortnight thanks to London 2012

London 2012 held up a mirror to our nation and we were rather surprised to discover that we liked what we saw

By Mirror Sport


London 2012 Olympic pics of the day: The best pictures from the final day London 2012 Olympics

Every day we bring you our pick of the images from London 2012 - and here are those from day 16

By Simon Head Mirror


Five Spice Girls! One Beatle! And, er, Jamiroquai! 10 things you need to know about Olympics closing ceremony

Spoiler alert! Your handy rumour round-up of what will happen during A Symphony of British Music

Anthony Ogogo: Bronze Means More After Turbulent and Emotional Olympic Journey www.ibtimes.co.u

B is for Boris – and other rude words
Janet Street-Porter INDEPENDENT

G4S Directors David Taylor-Smith And Ian Horseman Sewell Resign After Olympics Security Shambles www.huffingtonpost.co.uk