Britain basks in glow of golden day
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August 6, 2012, Monday
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The teary but euphoric face of Jessica Ennis beamed out from news-stands across Britain yesterday as Games fever swept a proud host basking in its greatest Olympic day in more than a century.
"Hep, hep hooray," declared the nation's best-selling tabloid Sun newspaper after Ennis won the heptathlon on a gold-rush on Saturday that saw the host nation snap up six Olympic titles.
Photographs of Ennis, down-to-earth and smiling, were plastered all over the front pages in her moment of triumph - wrapped in the Union Jack flag and hailed as Queen of the Games, Superwoman, Golden Girl and Sensational.
"Jess the best day ever," declared the Daily Mail after the country's biggest single-day gold medal haul since 1908. "Britain's dripping in gold."
Two golds in rowing and one at the cycling velodrome were followed by a hat-trick of victories in athletics from Ennis, Greg Rutherford (long jump) and Mo Farah (10,000 meters).
Britain took its collection of golds to 14 to lie third in the overall medals table behind the US (26) and China (25).
"Their extraordinary efforts have brought rapture to streets, parks and living rooms in London and all over the country if not the planet," London mayor Boris Johnson said in a statement.
London Games chief Sebastian Coe, a double Olympic 1,500 champion, said: "I think we've witnessed something sensational. I've never known a night in UK athletics like that, it was unbelievable."
"Hep, hep hooray," declared the nation's best-selling tabloid Sun newspaper after Ennis won the heptathlon on a gold-rush on Saturday that saw the host nation snap up six Olympic titles.
Photographs of Ennis, down-to-earth and smiling, were plastered all over the front pages in her moment of triumph - wrapped in the Union Jack flag and hailed as Queen of the Games, Superwoman, Golden Girl and Sensational.
"Jess the best day ever," declared the Daily Mail after the country's biggest single-day gold medal haul since 1908. "Britain's dripping in gold."
Two golds in rowing and one at the cycling velodrome were followed by a hat-trick of victories in athletics from Ennis, Greg Rutherford (long jump) and Mo Farah (10,000 meters).
Britain took its collection of golds to 14 to lie third in the overall medals table behind the US (26) and China (25).
"Their extraordinary efforts have brought rapture to streets, parks and living rooms in London and all over the country if not the planet," London mayor Boris Johnson said in a statement.
London Games chief Sebastian Coe, a double Olympic 1,500 champion, said: "I think we've witnessed something sensational. I've never known a night in UK athletics like that, it was unbelievable."
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