Rio de Janeiro received 1.17 million tourists during the Olympic Games, including 410,000 foreigners, and zero cases of Zika was reported.
Share prices of companies related to volleyball spiked on Monday after China's women's volleyball team won gold at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Sunday and people across China celebrated the victory online and offline.
If you tuned into the Olympics, whether on television or your smartphone, then you belong to a multi-billion dollar club of 5 billion people.
"We have survived a war. There are still kids who don't know if their parents are alive, don't have anything to eat or books to go to school. So the fact of becoming Olympic champion is just huge for all of us."
Back in June, Steve Burke described what he called his Olympics "nightmare".
The United States has won the highest number of medals at the Rio Olympic Games. The consistent performance of the US at the Olympics through the years should give other countries reason to reflect what they should do to improve their performance at the next games.
Traditional cupping therapy gained more popularity among Chinese during this summer's Olympics, with images of the red-stamped back of US swimmer Michael Phelps circulating on the internet.
"I've had a four-year plan, and I'm definitely a planner, but I have zero plans for Aug 21. So, we'll wait and find out."
It is difficult being an Indian during the Olympics. Especially so in a China Daily newsroom consisting of Americans and Britons; and, of course, Chinese.
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