After 11 days of competition in 17 different sports by 71 nations, the 19th Commonwealth Games has come to an end.
A total of 272 gold medals have been dished out - that's a lot of precious metal. But as a way of reminding ourselves of what Delhi was all about, why don't we dish out a few more?
The big story at the start of these Commonwealths was all about the athletes who didn't want to come to Delhi. So, as the Games draw to an end, I thought I'd track down a couple who couldn't have done more to get here.
Meet Carlos and Rico Yon, two shooters from St Helena. If you're wondering where St Helena is, you're not alone. It is one of the most isolated islands in the world, a droplet of cartographer's ink in the vast empty spaces of the southern Atlantic Ocean.
The nearest large land mass is 1200 miles away, the nearest inhabited island the volcanic bump of Ascension, 810 miles to the north-west. The next nearest neighbours - all 300 of them - are on Tristan da Cunha, 1510 miles to the south.
If it started with a whimper, against a background of last-minute track repairs and with the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium dreadfully empty, it finished with a barely believable noise as 60,000 screaming Indians roared their 4x400m women to an utterly unexpected gold.
It was a wonderful way for the seven days of athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games to finish. But what of the action that came before?
We knew before coming to Delhi that many big names would not be joining us. There would be no Usain, no Asafa, no Rudisha and no Ennis.
The optimists hoped that others would emerge to fill that star-sized vacuum. A few did. Athlete of the championships was surely Uganda's Moses Kipsiro, winner of a fine 5,000m and 10,000m distance double against the odds and might of Kenya; Amantle Monsho's 400m gold was both Botswana's first ever Commonwealth gold and also a Games record.
Look beyond those two, and the gap between what we saw and what would be considered world class began to gape.
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