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The English media are getting giddy over Great Britain's medal tally with some dubbing the 2008 Beijing Olympics the "Great Haul of China".
Great Britain are a distant third in the medal tally, behind China and the US, with 13 gold medals. China and the US have 39 and 23 gold medals respectively.
The Guardian described the past two days as "heady" with Brits on the dais by the pool, rowing lake, the velodrome and the pommel horse.
"Britain finished the weekend an almost unimaginable [and, to be realistic for a moment, probably unsustainable] third in the medal table, lying behind China and the US but ahead of such old rivals as Germany and Australia."
The paper goes on to report that at Atlanta, just 12 years ago, the Brits returned home with one gold medal between them.
News agency Reuters reports that 2008 is the best year in the last century for Britain since the "Rule Britannia days of empire".
A look at the record books shows Britain have never enjoyed such a golden Games since Antwerp in 1920 when they won 14. They last managed to finish as high as third in 1912 in Stockholm," the agency reported.
The fact that Australia is behind Great Britain on the medal table has not been lost on the Aussie media.
A column by John Huxley in the Sydney Morning Herald is titled: "The Brits are serious about stealing our medals".
Huxley said Great Britain had invested in sport and that was now paying off.
