Team GB’s athletes are basking in the glory of another highly successful Olympics.
Britain return from the delayed Games in Tokyo having matched their medal total from London 2012 (65) with 22 golds, with that collective haul just two medals short of their record performance in Rio de Janeiro five years ago.
Those medals were earned across 23 different events, with the likes of BMX and skateboarding taking centre stage alongside major success in the pool and the boxing ring after some unfamiliar struggles on the rowing lake and the end of a dominant era in the velodrome.
So what were the most magic moments from this most unusual of Olympics?
Standard Sport reporters Matt Majendie and Malik Ouzia saw it all in Tokyo...
Matt Majendie
There was Tom Daley’s Olympic gold four Games in the making, Sky Brown’s precociousness to come back from the brink for bronze, and the BMX racing gold and silver in the space of 10 minutes.
But Enoshima, the scene of the sailing, will resonate for me long after the Games are gone as Team GB pulled off two of the tightest victories imaginable in two consecutive races.
First, Dylan Fletcher and Stu Bithell crossed the line by a matter of centimetres to win gold, essentially helped over the line by a timely wave.
Then even greater drama ensued when Giles Scott, the hot favourite to defend his Finn class title, had to claw his way from the back of the field. With his rival for gold taking the win, Scott had to finish fifth or better.
Coming towards the finish, he was seventh but managed to sneak his way into fourth on the line, battering his boat in celebration.
Both boats admitted they had never been in closer races. It was the perfect sales pitch for Olympic sailing.
Malik Ouzia
The performances of our swimmers will go down as the British success story of these Olympics — and nothing quite summed up the transformation like their men’s 4x200m freestyle relay victory.
Producing individual stars like Adam Peaty or Rebecca Adlington is one thing, but to have four men — James Guy, Tom Dean, Duncan Scott and Matt Richards — at such a high level in one event is unheard of in the history of British swimming.
The way they destroyed the field and, nearly, the world record in such emphatic fashion was unthinkable as recently as Rio.
With usually reliable sources of medals, such as rowing, drying up, they offer great reason for optimism, too.
Honourable mentions to Sydney McLaughlin and Karsten Warholm for their world record 400m hurdles runs, while the night of Simone Biles’s shock withdrawal from the gymnastics will have more of an impact on the future of sport than any gold medals.
