The Olympics are over.

Well, technically, they were over 12 hours ago, but thanks to the joys of tape delay, they're not over in the U.S. until NBC says so.

And so, the countdown to the 2012 Olympics in London has officially begun. I know this because Michael Phelps was being interviewed in front of a crowd of 40,000 gathered at Buckingham Palace. The Red Arrow did a fly-over, leaving streaks of red, white and blue in the sky, exemplifying the "faster, higher, stronger" of the Olympic motto.

See you in London!