Summer Olympic Games Jacques Rogge described the Games as "Happy and Glorious". The host nation won 29 gold medals, the best haul for Great Britain since the 1908 Games in London. The United States returned to the top of the medal table after China dominated in 2008. The IOC had removed baseball and softball from the 2012 program. On a commercial level the Games were successful as they were the first in history to completely sell out every ticket, with as many as 1 million applications for 40,000 tickets for both the Opening Ceremony and the 100m Men's Sprint Final. Such was the
Poland at the 2012 Summer Olympics at least only four quota places in wrestling events. Poland at the 2012 Summer Olympics Poland competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's twentieth appearance at the Summer Olympics, having missed the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles because of the Soviet boycott. The Polish Olympic Committee (, "PKO") sent a total of 218 athletes to the Games, 130 men and 88 women, to compete in 22 sports. Poland left London with a total of 11 Olympic medals (2 gold, 2 silver, and 7 bronze), tying with Beijing