Sunday 12 August 2012

And Finally

The competitions are over, a number of records have been broken, and all that remains is tonight's closing ceremony and to look back on the games of London 2012. 

In the last day of action Anthony Joshua earned Great Britain's 29th gold in the Men's Super Heavyweight (+91kg) Boxing.

Here's how the top 10 medals table finished up:

Rank Country G S B Total
1 United States 46 29 29 104
2 China 38 27 22 87
3 Great Britain & N. Ireland 29 17 19 65
4 Russian Federation 24 25 33 82
5 South Korea 13 8 7 28
6 Germany 11 19 14 44
7 France 11 11 12 34
8 Italy 8 9 11 28
9 Hungary 8 4 5 17
10 Australia 7 16 12 35

Our friends from Kazakhstan managed a creditable 12th position with 5 bronze, 1 silver and 7 gold.

As mentioned here this Olympic business will prove to be costly. The stamp first day covers will be going to LL as a keepsake, lucky boy. Sadly the Royal Mail say that due to unexpected demand (really?) and unprecedented success (you don't say?), the FD covers won't go in the post for a few weeks yet. Given the expense of it all, am I being unpatriotic when I say I hope we don't do too well at the Paralympics or at least those wins are covered in a separate FD cover scheme? LOL

Despite the above I did succumb and treat myself to some official London 2012 products courtesy of the UK's Royal Mint ...



Official money- £5 coins for the Olympics and Paralympics. You can spend these in the shops dontchaknow. If you're mad LOL.











I know this past two weeks this blog has focused on reporting team GB's gold winners and I make no apology for that. No one sets out in a competitive sport with the intention of aiming to come second and I'm certainly not of the view that it is somehow wrong to have winners and losers. Having said that as stated in a previous posting, I take my hat off to anyone deemed good enough to be picked to represent their country. In this spirit, here's a list to GB's bronze and silver winners:



BRONZE MEDALS




Athletics- Men's High Jump
Robbie Grabarz
Boxing- Men's Middleweight
Anthony Ogogo
Canoeing- Men's 200m Kayak Pairs
Liam Heath & Jon Schofield
Cycling- Men's Omnium
Ed Clancy
Cycling Road- Men's Individual Time Trial
Chris Frome
Diving- Men's 10m Platform
Tom Daley
Equestrium- Individual Dressage
Laura Bechtolsheimer
Gymnastics- Men's Pommel Horse
Max Whitlock
Gymnastics- Women's Uneven Bars
Beth Tweddle
Gymnastics-Men's Team
Sam Oldham, Dan Purvis, Louis Smith, Kristian Thomas & Max Whitlock
Hockey- Women's Competition
Team GB
Judo- Women's +78kg
Karina Bryant 
Men's Triathlon
Jonny Brownlee
Rowing- Men's Eight 
Egington, Foad, Langridge, Partridge, Ransley, Sbihi, Searle, Louloudis & Hill
Rowing- Men's Pair
George Nash - Will Satch
Rowing- Men's Single Sculls
Alan Campbell
Swimming- Women's 400m Freestyle
Rebecca Adlington
Swimming- Women's 800m Freestyle
Rebecca Adlington
Taekwondo- Men's 80kg
Lutalo Muhammad



SILVER MEDALS




Athletics- Women's 400m
Christine Ohuruogo
Boxing- Men's Welterweight (69kg)
Fred Evans
Canoe- Men's Slalom C2
David Florence & Richard Hounslow
Cycling- Women's Road Race
Lizzie Armitstead
Cycling- Women's Sprint
Victoria Pendleton
Equestrian- Team Eventing
Tina Cook, William Fox-Pitt, Mary King, Zara Philips & Nicola Wilson
Gymnastics- Men's Pommel Horse
Louis Smith
Judo- 78kg
Gemma Gibbons
Rowing- Men's Lightweight Double Sculls Zac Purchase - Mark Hunter
Rowing- Men's Lightweight Four
Chris Bartley, Richard Chambers, Peter chambers & Rob Williams
Sailing- Men's 470
Luke Patience & stuart Bithell
Sailing- Men's RS:X
Nick Dempsey
Sailing- Men's Star
Iain Percey & Andrew Simpson
Sailing- Women's 470
Hannah Mills & Saskia Clark
Swimming- Men's 200m Breaststroke
Michael Jamieson
Tennis- Mixed Doubles
Laura Robson & Andy Murray

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