Team Great Britain’s cycling medal count at the 2012 Olympic Games
Team Great Britain had a terrific Olympics with as many as 29 gold medals to its credit along with 17 silver and 19 bronze medals.
There was a debate on whether or not England should spend such a huge amount of capital on organising the Olympics event when the country is going through the tough financial times.
A total amount of 14.2 billion dollars worth of public funds has been spent to ensure the best possible arrangements for the mega event.
Britain is busier counting the Olympics medals than adding up the total cost it has beard to make the event possible.
It has managed to bag a total number of 65 medals including 29 gold, 17 silver and 19 bronze and occupied the third overall position after United States of America (104 medals) and People’s Republic of China (87 medal) at the first and the second positions
respectively.
British cyclists proved their dominance in front of the home crowd and bagged eight gold medals out of the total 18 available.
England also succeeded in bagging two silver and two bronze medals which makes it a total of 12 cycling medals for the team.
Germany held the second spot with one gold; four silver and one bronze medal, a total of 6 medals for cycling.
France (4 medals), Australia (6 medals) and United States of America (4 medals) occupied the third, the fourth and the fifth positions in the respective order.
Bradley Wiggins secured the first medal for his nation and made full use of his absolute form.
First, he managed to claim an overall victory at the Tour de France and became the first ever British rider to receive the honours.
The cyclist rode brilliantly during the Men’s time trial Olympics event and overcame Tony Martin of Team Germany to claim his fourth Olympics Gold.
He crossed the finish line in an impressive time of 0:50:39.54 and defeated Tony with a healthy margin of 42 seconds.
"I cannot put it into words. I wouldn't do it justice. It was really incredible," Wiggins said.
"To win an Olympic gold in your home city. When you win in the velodrome, there are three or four thousand people cheering”.
“Here, around the streets of London, the noise is just amazing. I don't think anything will top that. I've just won the Tour de France. It's just been phenomenal".
Christopher Froome secured the bronze medal for the English side, "To come away with the bronze and knowing that Brad won gold, I don't think we could ask for too much today. It's quite something special,” he noted.
Continued to Part 2.
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