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MO-MOMENTQUS: Mo Farah assured his status metre events
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Britain lives up to label by being the 'Greatest Team'
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. ■ Olympics. Despite valiant efforts from a host of
i of athletes sprang into life on ithe fifth day of the London 2012
competitors, by the end of Day Four all
Team GB had to show for its efforts was a handful of bronze and silver medals as the nation lurked toward the bottom of
the medals table. Then, all of a sudden rowers Helen Glover and Heather
Bradley Wiggins, fresh from becoming
and with crowds reminiscent of the Royal Wedding.
Stanning, stormed home to claim gold in the women’s pairs at Eton Domey. Then just hours later, Chorley’s
the first British man to win'the Tour de France, took gold in the cycling time trial amid the splendour of Hampton Court
FTER a painfully slow start, Team GB’s medal-hunting band
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up golds in canoeing and shooting after that, the nation never looked back. j^ e r that there was the velodrome which rocked to the sound of craziness
The following day. Team GB picked • • •, poster girl Jessica Ennis, long jumper
six over four Games. Truly the night of knights.
remarkable night in the Olympic Stadium when, within the space of an hour, Britain won three golds from
But even after mixing in that
of Sir Chris Hoy embracing Steve Redgrave after having surpassed him as Britain’s greatest Olympian, the cycle king’s two victories in the team sprint and the keirin taking his golden tally to
farewell to cycling in a river of tears. ’ There v^as also the touching sight
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as Jason Kenny and Laura Trott won double gold, and Victoria Pendleton won gold and silver before bidding her
Greg Rutherford and the incomparable Mo Farah in the 10,000m, who a week later made it double gold in the 5,000m. The athletes’ treble top added to the
with the highlights being Yorkshireman -Alistair Brownlee winning Britain’s first triathlon gold medal while brother Jonny claimed bronze. They become the first brothers to win medals in an individual event in 108 years. Nicola Adams, also from the White Rose county, won Britain’s first title in the history of women’s boxing in the flyweight division.
mates Dani King and Joanna Rowsell in the velodrome, made Super Saturday the first time Team GB had scooped six gold medals or more in one day since 1908. There was no looking back after this,
two golds won in rowing and the first place achieved by Trott and her team
NATIONAL ICONS: Young pretender Laura TroU, who claimed two golds, alon^ide Britain’s most successful Olympian Sir Chris Hoy (above), while Uop n ^ ) Jessica Ennis justified her pre-Games billing as the nation’s poster girl by bringing home gold in the heptathlon. Meanwhile Nicola Adams, the woman with the country’s most femous smile, made history when she became the first woman over to win Olympic gold in boxing
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