Off Track ..... Golden nose job for British team plane

LONDON: The plane bringing Britain's Olympic team home next week is to get a golden nose job in honor of the record gold medal haul for Team GB in Beijing, British Airways said Thursday.

Britain has had its best Olympics for a century, taking its 17th gold Thursday and staying in third place in the overall medals table, behind China and the United States.

"Team GB has led the opposition home in event after event at this golden Olympics," said BA chief Willie Walsh, announcing the golden re-spray for the normally dark-blue nose-cone of the Boeing 747 which will bring them home.