“The outstanding performance of Team GB reflects the talent and hard work of the athletes and their support teams”.
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Dozens of Team GB’s victorious athletes are set to return as heroes, bringing with them the biggest medal haul for the nation in more than a century.
Russia’s sole track and field athlete at the Games, Darya Klishina, failed in her medal bid after finishing ninth in the women’s long jump final.
“I send my best wishes to all those who contributed to this remarkable achievement”.
The New Year honours list usually has a quota for sports competitors, but the Prime Minister’s official spokeswoman said she believed it should be suspended to allow Britain’s Olympic winners to be included.
The PM’s official spokeswoman said: “We have had an incredible fortnight at the Rio Olympics and we should be looking at the differing ways that we can recognise and reward the athletes for all they have achieved, and honours are there to recognise and reward people”.
“We’ve had an incredible fortnight at the Rio Olympics and we should be looking at the different ways we can recognise and reward the athletes for all that they have achieved”.
“In terms of honours, there is an independent process. There is no formal cap on the number of honours that can be awarded”.
The team entered the Maracana for Sunday night’s closing ceremony riding high on their success, the occasion infused with a relaxed party atmosphere that showed on the faces of the delighted stars.
GB rowers won a 5 consecutive Olympic Gold.
The Boeing 747 will be ferrying 320 athletes and support staff – as well as pole vaults, javelins, bicycles and a 6.7 metre sail.
The U.S. finished with 46 gold medals and 121 medals overall, its 51-total-medal margin over second-place China the largest in a non-boycotted Olympics in almost a century. The US was top. It will continue on the streets of Britain as we plan a parade in Manchester, alongside the British Olympic and Paralympic Associations.
“It has been a brilliant Games but this is not an overnight success”, he said.
Andy Murray and Justin Rose rubbished suggestions their sports have no place on the Olympic programme, with the Scot adding to his Wimbledon title with a thrilling final win over Juan Martin Del Potro, and Rose a worthy victor of a golf tournament stripped of most of its star names due to unfounded health fears.
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The British cycling team shrugged off a controversial build-up to the Games by sweeping to glory in the velodrome, Sir Bradley Wiggins snaring a record eighth Olympic medal and Jason Kenny and Laura Trott, with five between them, anointed the nation’s golden couple.
