China still hasn't caught up to GB. I know they will eventually, but it's interesting to see a small country like the UK ahead of so many countries.

"Small country like the UK"

It is small next to more populated countries like the China, Russia, Japan even Germany. 

China is still playing catch up in economical development - if you are in a family of poor farmers, chances are you'll never get the chance to participate in competetive sports, even if you could have had a huge talent for something. That's why India isn't anywhere near the top. As for the rest, I suggest you check out the demographic composition. Japan and Germany have a bad demographic composition for sports. Their population on average is much older, which ereases the  raw difference in population when you only look at total numbers. 60 year olds don't compete in the olympics. Russia... well, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the Russian doping thing stretches further back than just recently and they have been outperforming relatively in the olympics for a long while. Now they have lost that advantage and they are falling back to a normal level.

EDIT: Also, every country except India is small compared to China (in population).

Also a shame that our 1500m runner (Filip Ingebringsten) didn't make it through his heat. He's been in great shape lately, but he didn't run tactically, so in a heat where he should've made it through easily, he ended up getting blocked in the finish and used his arms a bit too much to make some room for him to make it through, getting him a disqualification. Sigh...

(Not disputing the obvious disqualification, just dissapointed that he ran the way he did with that being the result when he should've made it through the heat easily)

I should have complained earlier. We won some good Golds in the last couple of days. Even 7th in the medal table at the moment!

yea the GB olympic team is on the way to another highly impressive result after a big big push they got for the London olympics 2012

I felt really bad for the French guy, They were booing him yesterday in his final attempt which was really unfair and distracting, then they did it again when he recieved his medal. :(  

This gave us at least this nice picture: https://mobile.twitter.com/iocmedia/status/765720379935555586

Yeah, lol. Right after your post, Netherlands started doing so well.