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
Great Britain at the Paralympics Caroline Powell are the first and only Britons to win four medals at a single Winter Paralympics. After winning a silver medal in the Super-G, visually impaired event on 14 March 2014, Etherington became Great Britain's most successful female Winter Paralympian. In 2012, Great Britain became the second nation, the other being the United States, to host the Summer Paralympic Games twice. Athletes in bold are still active Athletes who have won more than three gold medals or five medals. This is a list of British athletes who have won at least two gold medals in a single Games. Ordered