What did the British athletes do after they returned to their country? [original

Triumphantly returning home after their best medal total in a century, British athletes and government officials turn their attention now to the next summer games in four years in London. After Beijing bid farewell to the 2008 Olympics, celebrations broke out in Britain to usher in London’s turn to host. London has been here before. It hosted the games in 1908 and in 1948, but London today is a very different city than the one that last hosted the Olympics in the hard years right after the end of World War Two.