The top 10 Team GB stars from the London 2012 Olympics – where are they now?

Has it really been a decade since London hosted the 2012 Olympics?

Indeed, it has been exactly 10 years since the capital welcomed the world’s greatest athletes for three weeks’ worth of thrilling sport and incredible entertainment… and also that time Boris Johnson got stuck on a zip-wire.

It would be a record-breaking game for the hosts, with 65 medals won in total, 29 of them gold, all resulting in a brilliant third-place finish in the medal table for Team GB.

That summer, so many athletes became instant national heroes, while some bowed out of their respective sports in style.

Metro.co.uk has taken a look at 10 of the biggest and best names from the London 2012 Olympics and what they’re up to now…

London 2012 did not get off to the best of starts for the hosts, and it wasn’t until Day 5 of the games that Great Britain finally claimed a gold medal courtesy of rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning.

Glover, a former teacher, and Stanning, a British Army officer, had only picked up rowing a few years prior to the Olympics, but became history makers when they won the Coxless Pair race.

They would continue to dominate the event over the next few years, winning the World Championships together in 2014 and 2015, before defending their Olympic title at Rio 2016.

The pair retired shortly after that, but Glover would return to the water five years later for the delayed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, finishing fourth alongside Polly Swann, while Stanning is currently a Major with the Royal Artillery.

Sir Bradley Wiggins was the talk of the town in the build-up to London 2012, as just five days prior to the Opening Ceremony he became the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France.

Even before 2012, he was already an icon on the track scene