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Londoners are not convinced.172 The same month, an Australian senator, Kate Lundy, makes a bet with Hugh Robertson, the UK's sports minister, over whether Australia or Team GB will finish highest in the medals table. Kirani James, later takes gold, and exchanges shirt numbers with him.922 In Weymouth Bay, Ben Ainslie celebrates his fourth gold, becoming the most decorated British sailor ever.923 A team of photographers and designers is on standby to turn the images of his win into a postage stamp.924 The completed stamps are on sale the next day.925 Ainslie's fourth gold is won on home waters
London 2012: The Summer Olympic Games : NPR
In a surprise finish, Brazil's Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira (left) races past South Africa's Oscar Pistorius to win a gold medal in the 200-meter race at the 2012 London Paralympic Games. Mexico's Oribe Peralta scored just 29 seconds into the game, after pouncing on a turnover by to take early control of the match at London's Wembley Stadium
London 2012 Paralympics
1 Freney takes it all Jacqueline Freney had a perfect performance and won eight gold medals in all eight events she competed in the London 2012 Paralympic Games
Four tipper trucks, driven to centre stage, exploded in a fury of pyrotechnics as their raised tailgates became screens showing footage of Freddie Mercury performing live in 1986 at Wembley Stadium. From a solitary street cleaner practicing Samba steps, a carnival parade invaded the stage as Brazilian pop singer Marisa Monte entered with a giant gown representing water goddess Yemanja, who is celebrated on New Year's Eve on Copacabana Beach
Flying sax man London 2012 - The saxophonist from the band Madness performs his solo while flying through Olympic Stadium during the closing ceremony on August 12, 2012. Acrobats perform on London's "skyline" London 2012 - Acrobats, dancers, and performers give the eye much to behold in Olympic Stadium during the closing ceremony on August 12, 2012
It reached a climax with the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on 27 July 2012, starting a 60-day festival of sport and culture across the UK, as the Olympic and Paralympic spirit crosses the world once again
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