Results London 2012 Olympics

Uganda's Stephen Kiprotich beats Kenyans Abel Kirui and Wilson Kipsang to win the Olympic men's marathon in London.

Beautiful smile for a beautiful Uganda win! Kenyans Kipsang and Kirui  thought the medal was theirs but Kiprotich managed to sail past them to take gold. 

Renaud Lavillenie of France sets a new Olympic men's pole vault record as he wins gold after an enthralling competition.

Lavillenie is on top of the world... pole vault world that is! Well done that man! Third pole vault Olympic gold in French history. 

"Dujardin, who started riding at the age of two, wins Olympic gold on Valegro in the freestyle dressage competition..."

Brilliant headline for a superb TeamGB equestrian win! 

Britain's Ben Ainslie clinches his fourth successive gold medal to become the most decorated Olympic sailor in history.

TeamGB, you're rockin' this Olympics big time! 

Gold for Ben Ainslie and silver for Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson.

Get in!

Brilliant results from these talented young women winning gold at the velodrome yesterday, breaking a world record, and Olympic record. Only thing missing would have been to lap the Americans, that would have been the cherry on the cake !

Alopecia, athsma, glandulor fever, these girls have each faced personal challenges. Winning gold at the Olympics made our hearts melt, their stories making their success seem all that more deserved.

Great Britain claimed gold and silver in the two-man canoe slalom in front a jubilant home crowd.

Happy times for Team GB, so much so that the team threw themselves into the water to celebrate, which got the crowd going even more.  

Mo Farah wins his second gold of London 2012, adding the men's 5,000m to the 10,000m title he won in the Olympic Stadium last week.

Well done Mo! Am-mo-zing!

"David Rudisha becomes the first athlete to set a new world record on the track at London 2012 as he wins 800m gold."

What a gentleman Rudisha is! Nice guy, top performance, this man will go down in history for his performance last night... even if Bolt did steel his limelight!

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh-Jennings of the United States win their third straight Olympic beach volleyball gold.

These girls are untouchable! 

Great Britain capture their first Olympic showjumping gold in 60 years by winning a jump-off against the Netherlands.

Team GB Gold rush continues! Peter Charles, Scott Brash, Ben Maher and Nick Skelton, well done.

Piers Morgan I hear more GSTQ!  

Euphoric Britain glories in winning six Olympic gold medals in a day – and there are hopes for even more victories today.

All Olympic sports from now on should require either a bike or a boat.

Sure, OK, a couple of exceptions to the rule to make it fair play:

the long jump, heptathlon and men's 10,000m for example.

And a race including each of the above sports.

Team GB top of medal table hands down! 

Michael Phelps wins a record 19th Olympic medal as he helps the US team to claim victory in the 4x200m freestyle relay.

Michael Phelps overtakes Larisa Latynina as all time medal winner.

Cyclist Bradley Wiggins becomes Britain's most decorated Olympian with victory in the London 2012 time trial, with Chris Froome taking bronze.

King of the road, King of the Mods, or with those side burns "The King" aka Elvis Presley spings to mind.

Who cares, he gets away with his quirky look a) because of his awesome taste in music and b) because he was the first Brit to win the Tour de France EVER and he just won GB its second olympic medal in London 2012. 

"Chapeau" to Wiggins, as the French would say