Charter airline Cello Aviation took the Great Britain football team to a pre-tournament training camp in the Mediterranean, and also carried the Lithuanian basketball team to the games.

Lithuania is a top basketball nation and the team were real contenders to win a medal, having won Olympic bronze in Sydney. But they went out in the quarter finals, beaten by the eventual bronze medallists Russia.

Cello's BAe146 is configured with 46 seats: "It is not often that basketball players can stretch out at 30,000 feet," says the company's Vince Essex.