The head of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, officially declared the XXX Summer Olympic Games closed. The London Olympics took place from July 27 to August 12, and 302 sets of medals were awarded at the games.

The US team took first place in the unofficial medal standings of the Olympic Games. She has 104 medals: 46 gold, 29 silver and 29 bronze. China is in second place with 87 medals: 38 gold, 27 silver and 22 bronze. Great Britain takes third place with 65 medals: 29 gold, 17 silver and 19 bronze.

The Russian team took fourth place with 82 medals, including 24 gold, 25 silver and 33 bronze.

for the Russian team The Olympics did not start very well , but at the end of the games our athletes managed to improve the situation and even surpass the medal indicators of the previous Olympic Games in Beijing.

According to presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, there will be no hasty resignations of sports leaders after the Olympic Games, since they led the Russian national team to victory, and the Olympic medalists will receive worthy gifts.

“Many experts said that in general, third place for us would be a sensational success, and fourth place would be such a solid foreseen success. Which is exactly what happened in the end. The guys performed, in fact, the whole team performed brilliantly,” Peskov said in an interview with the Kommersant FM radio station .

In turn, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote on his Facebook account: “I will express my opinion. The Russian team performed quite well. We have a total of 82 medals, and Chinese athletes have 87. Absolutely close values. Yes, there is less gold - 24 medals. But let me remind you that in Beijing in 2008 we had 73 medals, of which 23 were gold. So the statistics are still positive.”

For his part, the President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, said that the results of the Olympic Games in London indicate progress in Russian sports.

“82 medals in the unofficial team competition indicate that we have a strong and promising team. The main result of the completed Games of the XXX Olympiad in London is the feeling of pride for our country that the fans felt thanks to the performances of Russian Olympians,” the ROC press service quotes Zhukov as saying.

At the same time, Zhukov noted that “not in all sports we got the result that we could show. Understanding why this happened and how to avoid this in the future is our primary task.”

“Of course, the London Olympics will go down in history with the outstanding performances of our athletes: the breakthrough of the Russian judo team, the brilliant performance of track and field athletes, the first medals in badminton and women’s boxing, impeccable compositions of synchronized swimmers and artists, and of course, the first Russian gold in volleyball. A brilliant finale of the Olympic Games,” he concluded.

As Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Sports, 300 million rubles will be allocated for bonuses to Russian athletes. At the same time, bonuses for gold medals will be 4 million rubles, for silver – 2.5 million, for bronze – 1.7 million. In addition to the medalists themselves, “those who were involved in their preparation will definitely be awarded: coaches, medical staff and others.”

How much Olympic medalists from different countries earned at the 2012 Games can be found out from the Forbes counter .

All materials dedicated to the Olympics in London can be found in the Forbes story .

Athletes from 205 delegations took part in the London Olympics. Medals were awarded in 39 sports disciplines. The next Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

The 2012 Olympic Games have ended