Sunday 5 August 2012

Super Saturday




















With around 25 medals up for grabs yesterday people were calling Saturday the 4th of August 'Super Saturday' and it proved to be that for team GB walking away with 6 Golds!
The woman featured on the front page of every newspaper above is Jessica Ennis because she won the Heptathlon and is the face of London 2012. Another massive success yesterday was Mo Farah who won the 10,000 meters. The other 4 medals came from Long Jumper - Greg Rutherford, Women's team pursuit cyclists - Laura Trott, Dani King and Joanna Rowsell, double scull rowers - Katherine Copeland and Sophie Hosking then finally rowers - Andy Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed, Alex Gregory and Tom James.

This means in the medal table stands as follows:
1
United States261315
54
2
China251612
53
3
United Kingdom1478
29
4
Korea935
17
5
France868
22