Tens of thousands of Britons took to the streets of London on Monday to cheer Olympic and Paralympic athletes, celebrating a summer of spectacular sport that surprised even the most optimistic by lifting the host nation's mood.
The closing ceremony of the most successful Paralympic Games rounded off a spectacular summer of sport in Britain.
Many referees, technical officials, award ceremony presenters and volunteers, who have physical disability, work for the athletes at the London Paralympics Games.
China's gold tally reached 53 at the London Paralympics on Tuesday, thanks to the start of the wheelchair fencing.
South African "blade runner" Oscar Pistorius has unleashed an emotional claim that a rival in the T44 200 metres final at the London Paralympics beat him thanks to longer prosthetic legs.
China tied France 0-0 here on Sunday in the London Paralympic football 5-a-side Group B, sharing the top position with defending champions Brazil who crushed Turkey 4-0.
There are some moments during the London Paralympics Games that are touching and inspiring.
Brazil's Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira upset defending champion Oscar Pistorius to win the men's 200 meters title at the London Paralympic Games.
The London Paralympic main stadium shivered on Saturday as the 80,000 spectators applauded simultaneously to injured Djibouti runner Houssein Omar Hassan when he stumbled across the finish line in men's 1,500m-T46 heat.
South Africa's Oscar Pistorius began his London Paralympic campaign in scintillating fashion as he smashed the 200 metres T44 world record in his heat on Saturday.
Paralympics athletes fight in various competitions and brought the audience wonderful games on the first of the London Paralympics Games on Aug 30.
Shooting down the first gold of the London Paralympics in wheelchair on Thursday, Chinese veteran markswoman Zhang Cuiping broke the 10-year-old world record with nine shots out of the final 10 above 10.3 points.