A giant Union Jack stage, fireworks and some of Britain's biggest musicians have closed the 2012 London Olympics.

Last night's 3 hour ceremony saw performers from The Who, George Michael and The Spice Girls to Jessie J and One Direction ... while around ten-thousand athletes from over 200 countries paraded through the Stadium.

At the end, the Olympic flag was officially handed over to the next host city, Rio in Brazil - and the flame was extinguished.

Team GB finished the Games third in the medal table with our most succesful haul in over a hundred years - 65 medals including 29 golds.

The president of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge says London lived up to it's promises: