Friends, family and well-wishers, adorned with union flags, banners and red, white and blue balloons, waited to welcome home the Olympic heroes.
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They will then face the media at a press conference shortly after landing.
Also on the plane were triathlon medal-winning brothers Alistair and Jonny Brownlee.
Over the past year, the local public has been frustrated over Brazil’s decision to host the Games as the country faced a pile of domestic problems, including the notorious Zika virus, President Dilma Rouseff’s impeachment, and general economic decline.
It is worth recalling that this is Cameroon’s fourteenth consecutive participation at the Olympic Games.
Team GB chef de mission Mark England has revealed how global superstar athletes helped to propel Britain to its most successful ever Olympics.
For the crowds that poured into the streets to celebrate the soccer win, or shouted from windows and in bars throughout a rainy Rio during the volleyball final on Sunday, the victories were another sign that a Games many once thought destined for disaster had far exceeded local expectations.
Other top posts include: Japanese gymnast celebrating his team’s gold on Twitter, Argentine tennis player winning silver in the men’s singles match on Twitter and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulating Indian badminton player PV Sindhu winning India’s first medal in a women’s competition on Facebook.
“One thing that was. encouraging was seeing that people are pointing it out”, Kelly said. I am getting to experience more of the world.
“When you look at that, when you look at what is in the pipeline, when you look at the strength of Olympic sport across the piece there is every reason to suggest that we are going to have a very, very strong Tokyo Olympics”. “But I don’t swim for fitness”, she said.
“It’s important to relax, enjoy this but we will need to move on”. But the Serbians proved it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.
Downing Street also said there would be “no formal cap” on the number of honours that can be handed out to Team GB medal winners.
Team USA was comprised of 554 athletes, and 213 of those took home a medal.
As of the writing of this article, Team China’s total medal count is at 70 with 26 golds, tailing the United States which has 46 gold medals out of 121 and Great Britain with 27 out of 67.
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A video featuring highlights of the Rio Olympics was played on the stadium’s screens, before the men’s marathon medal ceremony.
