Olympics: Gold rush makes it Britain's best Games
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Britain's Bradley Wiggins competes on his way to win the men's individual time trial cycling event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, in London. -- PHOTO: AP
LONDON (AFP) - Great Britain surpassed 20 Olympic gold medals on Tuesday to make London 2012 their most successful Games in history.
The gold for the dressage team at Greenwich pushed Britain's gold medal haul in their home Olympics beyond the 19 that they won at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Britain is comfortably third in the medals table, behind China and the United States.
The Beijing total had been equalled when Alistair Brownlee won the men's triathlon earlier on Tuesday.
