By Tom Fordyce BBC Sport Online in Munich

Photo Gallery: Britain's Munich winners

Our man in Munich picks out his highs and lows of the European Athletics Championships.

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Sell-out crowds packing the Olympiastadion on the final three days, roaring their approval of every winner and almost coping with the German men's 4x400m relay team falling flat on their faces.

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The constant waves of freezing rain which fell on Munich from Monday onwards. And to think we left Manchester looking forward to a week of golden Bavarian sunshine.

Elias was far from 'blue' thanks to his exploits in Munich

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Hearing Nena's 1983 smash-hit Neun Und Neunzig Luftballons blaring out of a car radio outside the stadium.

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Having dodgy German band Opus' woeful Life is Life played constantly over the stadium public address system.

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Young German autograph hunters so keen on athletics that even BBC Sport Online's correspondent was asked for his signature.

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The officials in charge of dishing out false starts. There were so many errors of judgement that a drunken monkey could hardly have done worse.

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A million and one types of beer with which to celebrate Britain's medal successes.

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Endless cheese sandwiches. Germany - the wurst country in the world in which to be vegetarian.

Heli Koivula's battle with Ashia Hansen was one to savour

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Britain's Matt Elias' blue hair, to follow the Welsh red he had at the Commonwealths. Versatility to match his on-track switch from 400m hurdles to the 4x400m relay.

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Slovenian sprinter Rok Predanic's dyed red eyebrows. What next - the hair that only his girlfriend should see?

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Heli Koivula and Ashia Hansen in the triple jump. Separated by just 17 centimetres.

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Wandering into the sauna at the BBC hotel to find two 60-year-old German hausfraus in there already - naked.