Max reprises Rio gold on plane

Team GB’s 11-hour flight from Rio to London featured all the fun and frolics expected from a group of record-breaking athletes making their way home.

There was singing, drinking and some even took to showing their gold-medal winning party tricks.

The sportsmen and women shared pictures of themselves enjoying a party atmosphere as they celebrated becoming the first country to better a home medal count at the following Olympics.

Scores of the stars took selfies with their colleagues, and double gold-medallist Max Whitlock showed off his gymnastics skill using first-class seats as apparatus.

The team flew in a gold-nosed British Airways Boeing 747 with “victoRIOus” emblazoned on the side. flight. Double gold-medallist Max Whitlock and champion boxer Nicola Adams were the first to emerge from the plane and stood at the top of the stairs

Gold medallist rowers Helen Glover, left, and Heather Stanning