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Is Rio 2016 as Good as It Gets for Team GB at the Olympic Games?

With 19 gold medals to their name, the 2016 Rio Olympic Games is already the most successful overseas Olympics ever for Great Britain.

Team GB currently sit second in the medal table behind USA, with 50 medals and counting. That total is completed by 19 silver and 12 bronze added to those golds.

Like the 2012 London Games, it's been a formidable performance from the Brits. But on foreign soil, this was never expected. The hope was that Team GB could go some way in repeating their form from four years ago, yet at this rate, they may well even surpass what they achieved in London: 29 gold, 17 silver and 19 bronze for a total of 65 medals.