London 2012 Olympics: The Wonderful and Weird

London 2012 Olympics: The wonderful and weird With the Games now over, we look back at the amazing feats of human achievement and the surprising things the two-week celebration of sporting ability has taught us. New world records have shown a man can And a woman can Pedal Pedal 750m in 42.6s_ 500m in 32.422s. Gong Jinjie and Guo Shuang, China - team sprint Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy, Team GB - team sprint Lift Lift 233kg clean and jerk 333kg combined Zhou LuLu, China - 75-plus kg class, Ilya Ilyin, Kazakhstan - 94kg class, combined with a 185kg snatch, he also broke the combined world record with 418kg 146kg snatch and 187kg clean and jerk Run Run 800m in 1m 40.91s 4x100m in 40.82s - David Rudisha, Kenya Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jetter, USA Swim Race walk 1,500m in 14m 31.02s 20km 1hr 25m 2s Sun Yang, China - freestyle Elena Lashmanova, Russia Body shape matters, but it isn't everything BOLT X Athletics Swimming E Cycling - Cycling • Gymnastios Basketball II Swimming O Judo Ye Shiwen Asuka Teramoto Zhang Zhaoxu Fabio Scozzoli Usain Bolt Bradley Wiggins Robert Ricardo Blas Forstemann Jr Advantage: Advantage: Advantage Advantage: Advantage: Advantage: Large, strong, 34" (86 cm) thighs Advantage: Advantage: Unusually tall for a Large, powerful Long, lean, light Tiny and nimble at Very tall at 7ft 2in Large underarm Sturdy and hard to hands and feet and aerodynamic 4ft Bin (1.36m) and 4st 10lbs (30kg) sprinter, but has a (2.19m) musoles, like fins move at 34st 5lbs very long stride (218kg) Medals: Medals: Medals: Medals: Medals: None Medals: None Medals: None Medals: None Small countries can punch above their weight ...and so can Yorkshire folk Y Population Population per medal Total Grenada 104,487 104,487 USA 46 29 29 104 I China - Jamaica N Trinidad and Tobago E New Zealand 12 2,741,052 228,421 38 27 22 87 335,366 336,010 1,341,465 E Great Britain 29 17 19 65 13 4,368,136 5 M Bahamas 1 342,877 342,877 12 O Yorkshire 3 12 12 SE Great Britain 65 62,035,570 954,393 But most of all we've learned that Britain and its visitors embraced the Olympics = 10,000 people 7.4 million visited Olympic venues 500,000 turned out to see the cycling road races 350,000 watched Super Saturday on big screens 200,000 went to see the road cycling time trial 2.5 million went to the Olympic Park Overall, there were 705 people cheering for every one of the 10,500 competing athletes And those crowds were also very noisy Loud radio Conversation 60 80 40 100 Road drill 105 to 110 - Olympic stadium crowd for various events 114 - Excel arena during Irish boxer Katie Taylor's first fight Average TV levels 20. 120 124 - Velodrome finals, including Team GB's Sir Chris Hoy Decibels Faintest sounds 0 • 140 Aeroplane taking off Note: Medals per capita have been calculated using country populations from the UN Population Division, 2010 revision. Olympic Park visitor numbers are up to 9 August. Source: Locog, Guinness World Records, Dangerous Decibels Project, Action on Hearing Loss, UK Health and Safety Executive, UN Population Division, news agencies, BBC correspondents. Pictures: Getty, Reuters, AP, AFP. infografiks.in Source: BBC NEWS