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London 2012 Olympic gold

August 2016

  • Cyclist Laura Trott poses with her gold medals in 2012.

    Team GB to win six fewer medals at Rio 2016, predicts Goldman Sachs

    Economists say loss of host advantage means London 2012 tally will not be reached

January 2013

  • Nicola Jennings's caricatures
    Heather Stanning

    Nicola Jennings

    Rower and Royal Artillery Officer

December 2012

  • Nicola Adams

    Sports Personality of the Year hustings
    Nicola Adams: why she should win Sports Personality of the Year – video

    Gregg Bakowski makes the case for the first woman to win Olympic boxing gold to take home the 2012 BBC Sports Personality of the Year prize

  • Ben Ainslie

    Sports Personality of the Year hustings
    Ben Ainslie: why he should win Sports Personality of the Year – video

    Barney Ronay makes the case for the greatest Olympic sailor the world has seen, Ben Ainslie, to take home the Sports Personality gong

  • Jessica Ennis

    Sports Personality of the Year hustings
    Jessica Ennis: why she should win Sports Personality of the Year – video

    In the first video of the Guardian's SPOTY hustings, Ian Prior gives his reasons for Jessica Ennis, London 2012 poster girl to win the BBC gong

November 2012

  • Britain's Bradley Wiggins celebrates win

    Bradley Wiggins: please don't ask my wife to take a picture

    Tour de France winner and Olympic champion cyclist talks about how his new-found fame is getting a little tiresome for his family

    • Read the full interview in Saturday's Weekend magazine

September 2012

  • Andy Murray in Dunblane

    Andy Murray 'overwhelmed' by turnout for Dunblane homecoming parade

    Thousands gather to welcome Scottish tennis player back to home town following his Olympic and US Open victories
  • Anthony Joshua with gold medal

    Olympic honours not limited by quota, says Downing Street

    Team GB's 'extraordinary year' at Games raises question of whether New Year honours can reward all gold medallists
  • A Royal Mail postbox in Chorley being painted gold in honour of Bradley Wiggins

    Royal Mail's Olympic postbox-painting inspires public copycat campaign

    Man arrested in Hampshire for spraypainting postbox gold while fans in Lincolnshire pay tribute to hockey team's bronze
  • Kipper Williams
    Kipper Williams on the 'mobile Olympics'

    'I got a gold in the men's roaming'

  • Mo Farah's gold-painted postbox in lsleworth

    Jonathan Jones on art
    How Olympic gold gave Britain a fresh coat of patriotism

    Jonathan Jones: The Post Office's gold-painted postboxes – celebrating Team GB's success – have gone down so well that now we all want one in our town. Has London 2012 set a new gold standard?
  • Ceremony for the Dutch Olympic athletes at the Stationsplein in Den Bosch, the Netherlands

    Olympic athletes return home - in pictures

    With London 2012 over, Olympic medal-winning athletes head back to their home countries to face adoring crowds

  • Mo Farah

    Team GB: every Olympic gold, silver and bronze medallist

    From Mo Farah's double gold to the men's gymnastics team's unexpected bronze, here are Britain's medal winners of the Games

  • The USA's Kevin Durant and LeBron James celebrate winning Olympic basketball gold against Spain

    USA beat Spain to claim London 2012 men's basketball gold

    The USA triumphed 107-100 against Spain to win the men's Olympic basketball
  • jaroslav kulhavy

    London 2012: Jaroslav Kulhavy wins mountain bike gold as Briton injured

    Team GB's Liam Killeen taken to hospital with suspected broken ankle while defending champion Julien Absalon also crashes out
    • Stephen Kiprotich's Olympic marathon win gives Uganda second gold ever

    • London 2012: Mo Farah honoured by Usain Bolt 'Mobot' tribute

    • London 2012: as the party ends, Team GB battles to the last for medals

  • Luke Campbell beats John Joe Nevin

    Luke Campbell beats John Joe Nevin to claim bantamweight gold

  • Mo Farah

    London 2012: How Mo Farah surged to double Olympic gold

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