London 2012 has been the best British performance in an Olympics for 100 years, and the country has gone wild.
Many of the British complaints surrounding the Olympics reflect our understandable concern that our government just isn't up to managing it.
We have been following British fortunes at these Winter Olympics, and Mr Caborn was briefly out here to do the same.
The athlete said winning the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics had given British sport a great boost which could inspire sports stars of the future.
This coincides with ARM CEO Warren East speaking on the importance of mobile technologies and the UK's role in developing this market at the British Government's Business Olympics event in London from 26th July to 3rd August.
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It is also a big blow for British hopes of staging the 2012 Olympics.
"He is a talent, " said Evangulov, who led the Russian team to three silver and two bronze medals at the Beijing Olympics before taking the British post in December last year.
Brailsford, 48, masterminded British dominance in cycling at the Olympics and Paralympics and, as Team Sky boss, helped Bradley Wiggins - also knighted in the New Year Honours list - to win the Tour de France.
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Martin Barden of Fordingbridge-based UK Cycling Events, which has organised the New Forest Sportive over the past five years, said it had benefited from the legacy of British cycling success at the 2012 Olympics and Tour de France.
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The pair faces stiff opposition from another Essex sailor, Saskia Clark and her sailing partner, Sarah Ayton for the one British Olympic 470 class entry at 2012 Olympics.
"We are delighted that both golf and rugby sevens have been given the opportunity to take part in the ultimate celebration of sport at the Rio 2016 Olympics, " said the British Olympic Association chief executive.
"It is a British team that is sent to the Olympics and, while the world championships in November will be of a higher standard, this is the one everyone wants to play in, " she said.
The British sailing team's successes at the Beijing Olympics included a haul of six medals, four of them gold.
The opening ceremony for the London Games is later this month on July 27, the British capital the first city to host the Summer Olympics three times.
She was the team's only medallist at the 2006 Winter Olympics but at the Vancouver Games the British are being tipped for possibly their best medal haul, if they can beat the four medals won in 1924.
There were few arrests at the London Olympics, but somehow the one about the British peeping tom managed to escape headlines.
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With qualification for the Olympics already secured, the pressure was off the British team.
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"It's the British spirit, " she added, wearing her Team GB Olympics gear.
And not only will there be a potential shortage of cash during the Olympics, ATM lines are likely to grow along with British sticker shock and currency confusion for tourists.
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Lewis-Francis was hailed as the future of British sprinting when he won the world junior title in 2000, and he anchored the British 4x100m relay team to a surprise gold medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
David Davies is among the British athletes who BBC Sport will be following during the countdown to the Beijing Olympics.
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Wiggins, 32, became the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France weeks before landing gold at the Olympics.
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It won the right to host the Olympics by presenting itself as a uniquely global, rather than quintessentially British, city.
Kebede's victory in the British capital came after he was denied a shot at glory here at the Olympics last year when he was overlooked by Ethiopian selectors.
Still, as the joke has been going ever since we got the phone call telling the nation that we had beaten Paris, the 2013 Olympics are going to be a startlingly wonderful show of what the British are capable of.
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The British have staged, without incident, huge public events such as the 2012 London Olympics and the 2011 royal wedding, and counterterror police have successfully foiled some alleged terror plots.
For this reason the Olympics will boost food sales more than non-food products, predicts the British Retail Consortium, a trade association.
The charity is calling on the British government to stage a world summit on hunger in London around the time of the Olympics when leaders from around the globe will be gathered there.
And Khalid Yafai agrees with McCracken that this British team can only get better and will be at its peak by the time the London Olympics come round in 2012.
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Research we have done... shows that 84% of the British public couldn't name a single British Paralympian - despite the fact Great Britain came second in the medals table at the Beijing Olympics.
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