A few medal stats to contemplate:
- 3 medals won so far in the Games by Team GB - one silver (women's cycling road race) and two bronze (women's 400m freestyle swimming and men's team gymnastics).
- After three days of competition in Beijing we'd also won 3 medals (2 gold and 1 bronze).
- The team gymnastics medal was the first for Team GB for 100 years.
- More medal opportunities coming up over the next few days - 3-day eventing finishes tomorrow and we're currently in second place, and the rowing finals start on Wednesday, and every time I see Eton Dorney on the TV our rowers seem to be winning races.
- There will be 302 gold medals awarded during the London 2012 games.
- There are 36 different sports included within the 2012 Olympics (although some of them are rather subsets - e.g. there are 4 cycling sports - BMX, mountain, track, and road). In Beijing in 2008 we won medals in 13 different sports.
- Our most successful sport in Beijing was track cycling in which we won a total of 12 medals, including 7 golds.
- In Beijing we finished 4th in the medal table with a total of 47 medals. We are currently 20th in the 2012 medal table, although if we won a couple of golds, we'd go up to 7th.
- In 2004 we won a total of 30 medals, finishing 10th in the table, in 2000 we won a total of 28 medals, also finishing 10th in the table, and in 1996 we won a total of 15 medals, finishing down in 36th place in the table - mainly due to there being only one gold - Pinsent and Redgrave.
- So far, 38 gold medals have been awarded, 12 of which have been in swimming.
TEAM GB
Today: 1 bronze
So far: 1 silver, 2 bronze
Medal table position: 20th