London 2012 Olympics: Team GB aims to top Beijing golds

Team GB are hoping to secure the two gold medals which will allow them to surpass the tally of 19 won in Beijing.

Sir Chris Hoy is going for a GB record sixth Olympic gold - other GB cyclists after gold on the last day at the velodrome include Victoria Pendleton.
Hopes are also high in the dressage equestrian event and men's triathlon.
Meanwhile, PM David Cameron has attended an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes killed at the Munich Games.
He said the world must "never forget" the 11 Israelis and one German police officer killed by the Black September Palestinian group in 1972.
"As the world comes together in London to celebrate the Games and the values it represents, it is right that we should stop and remember the 11 Israeli athletes who so tragically lost their lives when those values came under attack in Munich 40 years ago," he said.
Mr Cameron said the 7 July London bombings, which killed 52 on London's public transport system in 2005, meant the two countries shared "the same determination to fight terrorism and to ensure that these evil deeds will never win".

 

Israeli judo Olympic silver medallist Yael Arad lit one of 11 candles representing the victims of the attack

Ankie Spitzer and Ilana Romano - the widows of two of the killed team-mates - were at the commemoration at London's Guildhall, which was also addressed by Labour leader Ed Miliband, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge.
The women criticised Mr Rogge for ruling out holding a moment of silence at the opening ceremony.
Before the Games, he said the IOC was determined "to continue commemorating" the Israeli athletes - but believed the opening ceremony was not the right place to do it.
On Tuesday Team GB's sportsmen and women will hope to add to medals won on Monday which included:

• Team GB showjumpers - Nick Skelton, Ben Maher, Scott Brash and Peter Charles - won Great Britain's first showjumping gold since the 1952 Helsinki Games after a jump-off with the Netherlands
• Cyclist Jason Kenny won gold by outclassing world champion Gregory Bauge in the final of the men's sprint
• The most decorated GB gymnast in history, Beth Tweddle, 27, won bronze in the uneven bars final - her first Olympic medal in her final Games
• Great Britain's Perri Shakes-Drayton lost her place in the 400m hurdles final after a disqualified Czech athlete was reinstated on appeal
• Holly Bleasdale - disappointed to finish sixth in Monday's pole vault final - accepted a proposal of marriage from boyfriend Paul Bradshaw later in the day
• Alex Morgan sealed a place in the Olympic women's football final for holders USA in the last minute of extra-time as they beat Canada 4-3 at Old Trafford
• The Dominican Republic's Felix Sanchez was a surprise winner in the 400m hurdles - repeating his gold medal win in Athens 2004 with the same time of 47.63 seconds - while Britain's Dai Greene finished fourth

Also on Monday, two spectators dressed in full wrestling attire with Swedish flags painted on their faces, jumped from the stands on to the floor of the ExCeL Centre.

The pair, who breached security after their countryman Johan Euren claimed bronze in the Greco-Roman super-heavyweight category, were escorted away by stewards.

Team GB, hoping to pass the 19 golds achieved in Beijing in 2008, stand third in the London 2012 medal table - behind China and the US - with 18 gold, 11 silver and 11 bronze.
At the Velodrome on Tuesday, Sir Chris and Pendleton will go for their second gold medals of the Games, in the keirin and the sprint respectively.
Fellow cyclist Laura Trott is going for gold in the omnium event while brothers Alistair and Jonny Brownlee are strong contenders in the triathlon at Hyde Park.
And Britain's dressage team of Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin hold a narrow lead over Germany going into Tuesday's final round of the team event.
Other Team GB medal hopefuls include Robbie Grabarz, in the men's high jump final, and in windsurfing Nick Dempsey and Bryony Shaw are hoping for silver and bronze respectively.
Meanwhile, two Met Police officers are facing possible disciplinary action after a sticker used for marketing purposes - reading "I've met the Met" - was allegedly stuck onto a police van from a visiting force from Wales.

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