Team GB has stormed to victory in team dressage and clinched gold, making London 2012 Britain’s most successful Games in more than 100 years.
The unbeatable trio of Charlotte Dujardin, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Carl Hester claimed Team GB’s 20th gold medal, making it Britain’s best medal haul of the modern era.
Germany took the silver in the dressage event, and the Netherlands and Denmark were vying for bronze.
With five full days of competition left, Team GB has so far won 44 medals, which includes 12 silver and 12 bronze.
Team GB is in third place in the overall medal table, behind China and the United States.
Britain’s best-ever Olympics were the London Games of 1908 when it claimed an unsurpassable 146 medals – 56 golds, 51 silvers and 39 bronze.
Meanwhile, in the Olympic Velodrome later, track queen Victoria Pendleton will bow out from the sport with a sprint finish as she bids to become Britain’s most decorated female Olympian.
With one gold before the Games began, the 31-year-old from Stotfold, Bedfordshire, took the keirin title on Friday and is looking for a third in the sprint tonight go one better than the likes of Dame Kelly Holmes and Rebecca Adlington before retiring.
Hotly tipped five-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy will also be hoping to make it six in the keirin, an event which the Scot excels in.
Sir Chris first became Olympic champion in Athens in 2004, with victory in the 1km time-trial, before claiming a hat-trick of victories in Beijing and the team sprint title on Thursday.
And 20-year-old world champion Laura Trott is top of the standings going into the final day of the omnium.
In the Olympic Stadium, 20-year-old former rugby player Lawrence Okoye, who has deferred a place at Oxford to study law to concentrate on athletics, will go for gold in the discus after producing a throw of 65.28 metres to go through to the final automatically.
Earlier, Team GB equalled its gold medal haul from Beijing when the Brownlee brothers both claimed medals in the triathlon.
Alistair Brownlee’s gold medal-winning performance in the triathlon, combined with his younger brother Jonny’s bronze in the same race, helped take the UK’s largest county to 10th in the medal rankings.
Britain had never won a triathlon medal before but Alistair Brownlee was favourite, having dominated triathlon over the last four years.
The two brothers were roared on by vast crowds around the course in central London, and also by hundreds of fans in their home city of Leeds.
And there was further success for Team GB in Weymouth as Nick Dempsey took silver in the men’s windsurfing.
Elsewhere, Phillips Idowu, the so-called “Invisible Man” of British athletics, crashed out of the triple jump.
The controversial 33-year-old Beijing silver medallist failed to jump far enough to qualify automatically for Thursday’s final.
Source : Orange