They can come from any time during
competition or the second a medal is won. Here's an updated look at
Olympians in winning moments as the Games head to their conclusion this
Sunday in London.
Andrea
Baldini celebrates his team's victory at the end of his men's foil team
gold medal fencing match against Japan's Yuki Ota at the ExCel venue at
the on Aug. 5 at the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Suzanne
Plunkett/Reuters)
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Dani
King of Great Britain celebrates winning the gold medal and breaking
the world record in the women's team pursuit track cycling finals on
Aug. 4 at the Olympic Velodrome. (Quinn Rooney/Getty Images) 
4
Dominican
Republic's Felix Sanchez has a family photograph on hand as he reacts
to his gold medal win in the men's 400-meter hurdles final at the
Olympic Stadium on Aug. 6. (Martin Meissner/Associated Press)
5
Russia's Ivan Ukhov reacts after winning the men's high jump final on Aug. 7. (Mark Blinch/Reuters)
6
Oleksiy Torokhtiy of Ukraine celebrates after winning the gold medal in
the men's 105kg weightlifting on Aug. 6. (Richard Heathcote/Getty
Images)
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Great
Britain's Katherine Copeland cries during the award ceremony for the
lightweight women's rowing double sculls after winning the gold medal in
Eton Dorney, near Windsor, England on Aug. 4. (Natacha
Pisarenko/Associated Press)
8
France's
Edwige Lawson-Wade (center left) jumps into the arms of teammate
France's Celine Dumerc as they celebrate their win over the Czech
Republic during a quarterfinal women's basketball game on Aug. 7. (Eric
Gay/Associated Press)
9
Spain's Marina Alabau celebrates after winning the rs:x women's gold medal on Aug. 7. (Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)
10
Peter
Modos of Hungary celebrates winning his men's greco-roman 55kg
wrestling bronze medal bout against Haakan Erik Nyblom of Denmark on
Aug. 5. (Scott Heavey/Getty Images)
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Germany's
Robert Harting celebrates after winning the men's discus throw final on
Aug. 7. Harting won gold ahead of Iran's Ehsan Hadadi who took silver
and Estonia's Gerd Kanter who won bronze. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)
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China's
Xu Lijia celebrates as she crosses the finish line to take the gold
medal in the women's laser radial sailing class during the medal race on
Aug. 6. (Pascal Lauener/Reuters)
13
Jamaica's
Usain Bolt crosses the finish line to win the men's 100-meter final at
the Olympic Stadium on Aug. 5. (Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters)
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Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates winning gold in the Mens 100-meter final. ( Michael Steele/Getty Images)
15
Mariya
Stadnyk of Azerbaijan (left) after winning her women's Freestyle 48 kg
semifinal against Irina Merleni of Ukraine on Aug. 8. (Lars Baron/Getty
Images)
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Great
Britain's Katherine Copeland (left) and Sophie Hosking celebrate after
winning the gold medal for the lightweight women's rowing double sculls
on Aug. 4. (Chris Carlson/)
17
Jessica
Ennis of Great Britain (center) celebrates winning gold in the women's
heptathlon with fellow heptathletes on Aug. 4 in London. (Jamie
Squire/Getty Images)
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Gold
medallist Ranomi Kromowidjojo (right) of the Netherlands celebrates
with Marleen Veldhuis in the women's 50-meter freestyle final at the
Aquatics Center on Aug. 4. (Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)
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Mohamed Farah of Great Britain celebrates winning gold in men's 10,000-meter final on Aug. 4. (Stu Forster/Getty Images)
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Shelly-Ann
Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica celebrates winning the gold in the women's
100-meter final on Aug. 4 at the Olympic Stadium. (Alexander
Hassenstein/Getty Images)
21
Kasumi
Ishikawa (left) and Sayaka Hirano of Japan celebrate after winning the
women's team table tennis semifinal match against Singapore on Aug. 5.
(Feng Li/Getty Images)
22
Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria wins the gold in the men's 1500-meter final on Aug. 7. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
23
Sally
Pearson of Australia celebrates after winning the gold medal in the
women's 100-meter hurdles on Aug. 7. (Rob Carr/Getty Images)
24
Spanish
players celebrate winning the women's water polo semifinal match
between Spain and Hungary at the Water Polo Arena on Aug. 7. (Clive
Rose/Getty Images)
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April
Ross (right) of the United States and Jennifer Kessy celebrate after
winning match point during the women's beach volleyball semifinal match
between United States and Brazil on Aug. 7. (Michael Regan/Getty Images)
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Timo
Boll of Germany celebrates defeating Tianyi Jiang of Hong Kong and
winning the men's team table tennis bronze medal match on Aug. 8. (Rob
Carr/Getty Images)
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Yang
Hak Seon of South Korea celebrates with his coach after winning a gold
medal in the men's gymnastics vault final in the North Greenwich Arena
on Aug. 6. (Mike Blake/Reuters)
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China's
Sun Yang reacts after winning gold in the men's 1500-meter freestyle
final on Aug. 4. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
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United
States fencers from left: Susie Scanlan Kelley Hurley, Courtney Hurley
and Maya Lawrence celebrate with teammates winning the bronze medal of
the women's epee team on Aug. 4. (Damir Sagolj/AFP/Getty Images)
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United
States swimmers from left: Matthews Grevers, Brendan Hansen, Michael
Phelps and Nathan Adrian pose on the podium after winning gold in the
men's 4x100 medley relay final on Aug. 4. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty
Images)
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Great
Britain's Andy Murray gestures after winning the men's tennis singles
gold medal match by defeating Switzerland's Roger Federer at the All
England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London on Aug. 5. (Luis
Acosta/AFP/Getty Images)
32
China's
Ding Ning reacts after winning a point against South Korea's Kim
Kyungah in the women's semifinal table tennis match between China and
South Korea on Aug. 6. (Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russia's
Yuliya Zaripova celebrates after winning the women's 3000-meter
steeplechase final on Aug. 6. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)
34
Coaches
of Great Britain's Chris Hoy carry him as he celebrates after crossing
the finish line to win the gold medal in the men's keirin final cycling
event at the Velodrome in the Olympic Park on Aug. 7. (Leon
Neal/AFP/Getty Images)
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Netherlands
players celebrate after winning in the shoot-out against New Zealand
during the first semifinal of the women's field hockey match at the
Riverbank Arena on Aug. 8. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)
36
Britain's
Ben Ainslie holds flares as he celebrates winning the men's finn class
one person dinghy (heavyweight) sailing competition on Aug. 5. Ainslie
became the most successful Olympic sailor on Sunday, winning gold in the
single-handed Finn class to claim a record-breaking fifth consecutive
medal. (Pascal Lauener/Reuters)
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Russia's
Valeria Sorokina (right) and Nina Vislova celebrate after winning the
women's doubles badminton bronze medal match over Canada's Alex Bruce
and Michelle Li on Aug. 4. (Andres Leighton/Associated Press)
38
Hungary's
Katalin Kovacs (second from right) and Krisztina Fazekas celebrate
after winning in a women's kayak four 500-meter final in Eton Dorney,
near Windsor, England on Aug. 8. (Chris Carlson/Associated Press)
39
Portugal's
Joao Monteiro (left) and Tiago Apolonia react after winning a game
against team South Korea during the men's team quarterfinals table
tennis match on Aug. 5. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press)
40
Ashton
Eaton of the United States wins in the men's decathlon 100-meter heat
next to Brazil's Luiz Alberto de Araujo (left) and Ukraine's Oleksiy
Kasyanov (right) on Aug. 8. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
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Nicola
Spirig (right) of Switzerland wins the women's triathlon final at Hyde
Park on Aug. 4. Lisa Norden of Sweden took the silver. (Tim
Wimborne/Reuters)
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China's
Zhao Yunlei and Tian Qing (bottom right) celebrate winning their
women's doubles badminton gold medal match as Japan's Mizuki Fujii (top
left) and Reika Kakiiwa react at Wembley Arena on Aug. 4. (Bazuki
Muhammad/Reuters)
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Kenya's
Ezekiel Kemboi reacts on the track after winning the gold medal in the
men's 3000-meter steeplechase final on Aug. 5. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
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France's
Nikola Karabatic (center) celebrates winning the men's handball
quarterfinals match against Spain on Aug. 8. (Marko Djurica/Reuters)
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Canada
midfielder Desiree Scott (11) bends to her knees as United States
forward Abby Wambach (14) celebrates the game winning extra time goal in
women's soccer action on Aug. 6. (Frank Gunn//The Canadian Press)
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Spain's
Javier Gomez (left) congratulates Great Britain's Alistair Brownlee
after Brownlee won the gold medal in the men's triathlon on Aug. 7. (Jae
C. Hong/Associated Press)
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Britain's
Nick Dempsey (center) with his sons Thomas-Flynn (left) and Oscar
after he won silver medal in the men's RS:X sailing class at the London
2012 Olympic Games in Weymouth on Aug. 7. (William West/AFP/Getty
Images)