Top 100 momentsNo. 92
London’s Super Saturday
Britain wins three golds in an hour on the track. A home Games that had been mocked as a budget becomes a national mood.
August 4, 2012. Jessica Ennis-Hill, Greg Rutherford, Mo Farah — three British golds in a single night at the Olympic Stadium. The park in east London, built on old industrial land, sounds like it might lift off. Danny Boyle’s opening had already dared to be weird. Super Saturday dares to be greedy.
Home Olympics often under-deliver for the hosts on the track. This one does not. A country that sells itself as a sporting museum gets a present-tense roar.
The medals are the easy memory. The harder one is a Games that made a skeptical city glad the circus came.