THE Sun asked: "Where the bloody hell were we" on the Olympic medal tally. Today we answer: above them. See our truck of truth on the streets.

STEPHANIE Rice has addressed the rumours about her relationship with US swimming sensation Michael Phelps.

AUSTRALIA'S Beijing Olympic athletes have touched down in Sydney to a hero's homecoming from family, friends and fans.

SYDNEY 2009 World Masters Games organisers want Olympics-mad amateur sportspeople to get off the couch and onto the field.

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has praised Australia's Olympians and promised to continue sports funding in the lead-up to the London Games.

SWIMMING'S world governing body FINA has triumphantly declared that 343 doping tests at the Beijing Olympics failed to produce a positive result.

A BATTERED Lee Troop summed it up best when he described the fastest Olympic marathon in history in one word - carnage.

JAMES Tomkins believes his Olympic career is over, but one factor could drive him to 2012 - the chance to "spoil the Poms" party'.

SO we thought Beijing was going to be bad - from athletes to media to fans, we worried about the smog, the police, the repression, the food.

LIBBY Trickett will swim on to the 2010 Commonwealth Games but is not sure if she will go to London for another tilt at Olympic glory.

FOR the past 16 days the Olympics have provided hundreds, no make that thousands, of memorable moments.

MICHAEL Phelps, Usain Bolt and Stephanie Rice have dominated coverage of the Beijing Games ... but there are loads of other fantastic tales to tell

THE Opals have accused US captain Lisa Leslie of being a "poor sport" after she draped her gold medals from previous Olympics around her neck following her win.

CHECK out the stunning images that best captured the spirit of the Beijing Games by Beijing Now's five photographers.

WITH the 2008 Olympic Games officially closed, Beijing Now invites you to look back at Australia's memorable medal wins.

JOIN Beijing Now as the curtain comes down on the 2008 Olympic Games with the closing ceremony at the Bird's Nest stadium.

KOBE Bryant provided the spark as the US reclaimed Olympic basketball supremacy today, defeating world champion Spain 118-107.

NO Australian Olympic gold medallist has captured international acclaim quite as much as diving wunderkind Matthew Mitcham.

GRANT Hackett and James Tomkins head the list of eight Olympians to be elected to the AOC athletes' commission.

USAIN Bolt has put on hold his celebrations after winning three Olympic gold medals to visit victims of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan.