Karen Griffiths provided this picture of her and a friend outside the entrance to the Olympic Village Beijing's tempestuous weather is captured in this dramatic photo of a huge downpour soaking a nattily dressed Nick Heathcote Frances Chen sent us this photo of her enjoying the Olympics boxing bouts at the Workers' Gymnasium Two friendly security guards at the Games on their way home sent in to the BBC Olympics flickr account by lee_on_the_road David Florence celebrates his silver medal with coach Mark Delaney, sent in by Mark's wife, Mandy, of the British Canoe Union Karen Miller snaps the local fans enjoying the women's football first round matches in Tianjin as China beat Sweden Karen Griffiths also makes it to Tianjin for the women's football where she proudly displays her ticket prior to entry Tam Nguyen, Vietnam, has made over 150 caricatures of the Olympic animal mascots from eggshells, TV antennae, and peanut covers Kris Krug captures the exciteable atmosphere at Ditan Park in the north of Beijing while fans watch the ceremony on big screens Rita Kong sent in a picture of her son Leon near the Bird's Nest stadium with only a few hours to go before the opening ceremony Kris was on hand to snap a Chinese fan having some intricate symbols painted on her face at Ditan Park In Hong Koing, YY Wong kept a close eye on the countdown clock with under an hour until the start of the opening ceremony Irena Pejovic was lucky enough to attend the thrilling opening ceremony and sent a photo of her holding up her Macedonia flag LooLoo provided us with this photo and says that the flags, posters and decorations around Beijing create a great atmopshere LooLoo also took a colourful picture of the fireworks lighting up the night sky around Tiananmen Square following the opening ceremony Qiyuan Li celebrates outside the Olympic Stadium with the 2008 Games under way and the flame burning bright One hour after the ceremony and the day's events appear to have taken their toll on these fans LooLoo spotted on the Beijing subway Frances Chen dons some fetching headwear as she makes friends with Olympic mascot Nini in the centre of Beijing Lee sent us this photo of brightly attired school children using flags and tubes to encourage China's rowers at the Shunyi Rowing Club The next shot Lee provided on Flickr shows the British enclave at the rowing heats cheering on Alan Campbell in the men's single sculls
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