Despite London hosting the 2012 Olympics Great Britain fail to win a single medal. A major contributory factor to this is poor showing is that all its competitors are forced into giving other nations a head start or some other advantage such as being blindfolded, having shoelaces tied together, running backwards etc. This unusual punishment is as a direct result of Great Britains dominance of the 2008 Olympics in which it came top of the medal table having won some 52.7% of all available medals. In one case one athlete Bob Eyre won the 400m hurdles by accident whilst carrying out a lap of honour having won the 100m some few seconds earlier. This showing by GB was not down to any cheating but was deemed unsporting by other nations as it is eventually discovered that this display was due to sheer athletic ability that had until then been hidden by its competitors for the previous 28 olympiads as part of sting on bookmakers that netted each of its competitors an average of £1.78m.