The London 2012 Olympics bid a British song-and-dance farewell Sunday night, but the memes spawned at the Games will live forever. Or at least until something else catches the Internet’s attention.
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London, the host of the 2012 Olympic Summer Games, capped a fortnight of athletic achievements with a jukebox collection of songs and a marathon display of endearingly wacky stagecraft. 
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NBC has taken a lot of flack for its tape-delayed Olympic coverage.. The outcry has spawned the Twitter hashtag #nbcfail, which viewers have been appending to their complaints. The network has countered, however, with huge ratings for the prime-time broadcasts. Those ratings — more than the 2008 Beijing Games — seemingly support in-house research that those who have indulged in spoilers before the events are shown on television are actually more likely to watch them. So, who’s right? The network or Twitter Nation? And how should it affect the future of Olympics coverage?
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Mitt Romney has an Olympic athlete in his family. It has four legs and gave Romney a $77,000 write-off on his 2010 taxes. You may have heard about Rafalca, the Romney-owned dressage horse that's going for the gold in London.
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The morning after Ryan Lochte won the first American gold medal of the London Olympics, Lochte's smile was plastered all over the internet and newspapers worldwide. In some of those photos — if you look close enough — you'll see he's wearing a stars-and-stripes, jewel-encrusted "grill" across his top row of teeth.
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Twitter has turned into a fiery digital soapbox against NBC, as its users have merged their resentment over tape delay with problems viewing the live streams.
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A gold medalist swimmer will take a Twitter timeout during this summer's Olympics because of trolls who her demean her looks.
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The Internet continued its new GIF (graphic interchange format) tradition during the Olympics Closing Ceremonies. What's a GIF, you ask? Well, click on the title of this story to watch Posh Spice dance - then not dance. Then not dance - and dance again.
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You may know YouTube primarily for its awesome sports highlights, classic TV clips and popular music videos, all of which are offered on-demand in easily clickable playback format. But the 2012 Olympics represent the service’s biggest live streaming effort ever. The Games also offer a window into the changing nature of online video and where YouTube is headed next.
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Bruce Jenner is known to reality TV fans as the somewhat hapless step-Dad to the Kardashian clan. But long before Kris Kardashian and her brood came into his life, Jenner was the 1976 Olympic gold medal winner in the decathlon. He was known as "the greatest athlete in the world."
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Boy, does this Olympic gymnast love to take slightly NSFW (not-safe-for-work) photos of himself on his iPhone. And people thought his spread in the ESPN Body Issue was ridiculous. Give him a Olympic gold right now for athlete most in love with himself!
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Losing intentionally — which disqualified four badminton teams at the Olympics — infuriates many, but it has its defenders as a strategy, even at the Games.
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Members of the United States men’s basketball team have taken to Instagram in a big, not always flattering, way.
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