Travelzoo

The same places that cost a tanned arm and a leg in the middle of summer get much cheaper once the calendar turns to mid-August.

Melanne Verveer

Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, U.S. State Department

There's been a lot of talk about how the London Olympics will best be remembered as the Women's Olympics. Not only because of the individual performances, but because of the collective achievements of women who participated in these London games.

David Sable

Global CEO, Y&R

I was addicted to the London Olympics... in fact, so was my whole family. Don't feel bad. The truth is you are only one of close to 5 billion people who, at one time or another during the event, tuned in and viewed the games and all the resultant hoopla.

Alan Miller

Writer, Filmmaker, and Director, The NY Salon.

The run-up to the Olympics that was filled with anguish and concern reflects a far deeper problem in society. Indeed, it was a result of the over-inflated obsession with security that has gripped the U.S. and many in Europe, but particularly Britain, since 9/11.

Katrina Lantos Swett

President and CEO, Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice

While most Olympic athletes had an extraordinary opportunity to mingle with competitors from every corner of the globe, the North Korean team was treated like high-security prisoners by their ever-present minders.

Rachel DeChiara

High school student

This year's Olympics was enthralling -- I literally watched nothing else for those spectacular two weeks. In the spirit of such athleticism, I turned to a fitting documentary: Man on Wire.

Krishna Subramanian

CMO of Velti, Co-Founder of Mobclix

With so many people receiving Olympic results ahead of time, either through social media, live streams, or other live sources, the audience for time-shifted coverage should have plummeted -- right? Yet NBC's ratings were as strong as ever.

Jackie Schaefer

13-year-old soccer player

I leave London as a 13-year-old girl who has experienced the Olympics for the first time. Eight years from now, I dream to be a 21-year-old participating in the games.

Andy Plesser

YouTube, which streamed the IOC's feed of the London 2012 in Olympics in some 65 nations and provided streaming services for NBC Olympics in the Uni...

Zach Veach

18-year-old racecar driver

The Olympics is so much more than a gold medal, a 30-second run or 10 laps in the pool -- it's about individuals reaching their goals because of hard work and determination.

Jake Kaminski

Olympic Archer, Team USA

I believe that no other team in the world works as well together as the American team did this year at the Olympics.

Leah McElrath

Human rights activist and political commentator; Managing Partner, Renna Communications

The images of two strong, courageous young Saudi women athletes will forever exist as part of Saudi history. If you listen to the voices of the women interviewed herein, you can hear that a bell of hope and expectation has been rung.

Anita L. DeFrantz

International Olympic Committee, member

I just left London and it is a city enjoying the glorious feeling of a job well done by the citizens who hosted the Games of the XXX Olympiad.

Dane Chapin

Entrepreneur

They both start with the letter "O." That is where the similarities begin and end between Obama and the Olympics. For 16 glorious days, every four ye...

Brad Harrington

Executive Director, Boston College Center for Work & Family and Research Professor in the Carroll School of Management www.bc.edu/cwf @BCCWF

In reflecting on this summer, the two stories that will stick with me most clearly are the London Summer Olympics and the "having it all" debate that has stimulated so much conversation.

Maya Ana Callender

17-year-old senior at the Institute for Collaborative Education in NYC

This Olympics, I wanted to cry with Lolo Jones when she came in fourth, hug Jordyn Wieber when she lost, scream with Carmelita Jeter when her and her team broke the world record.