Olympic Athletes: London Games

Accomplishment Dept: Finishing in the top five among the best athletes in the world seems like quite an accomplishment. It comes with personal pride and inevitable pats on the back, according to CBC. Canada currently sits in 33rd place at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, with a total of 18 medals comprised of one gold, five silvers and 12 bronzes and close, but no medal it's a bitter pill that a number of Canadian athletes at the London Games had to swallow, overshadowing the fact that their performances ranked among the best on the planet. But aside from British bookshop owner David Mitchell who decided to produce and send medals to many Olympic athletes who finished in fourth place falling short of the top three means no medal, no physical proof of the accomplishment, no matter how close the athlete came. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.