So who is the most beautiful Olympian... Not to mention the tallest, fattest, oldest and most superstitious!

By Alice-azania Jarvis and Alex Kay for the Daily Mail

Published: 20:20 EDT, 12 August 2012 | Updated: 06:22 EDT, 13 August 2012

According to analysis of web coverage, the best-looking athletes were the Paraguayan javelin thrower Leryn Franco, a runner-up in Miss Universo Paraguay, and the U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte. Team GB’s Jessica Ennis was ranked third.

Thirty-seven per cent of British medal winners cried during the first ten days of the Games, compared with just 17 per cent from the U.S. and seven per cent from China. Of all medallists, women cried more than men — 25 per cent as opposed to eight  per cent. Sixteen  per cent either bit or kissed their medal on the podium. Just 44 per cent sang along with their national anthem.

The average male team GB gold medallist is 6ft  ½ in tall, 30 years old and weighs 12st 6lb. The average female team GB gold medallist is 5ft 7in tall, aged 25, and weighs 9st 8lb.

Most attractive: Paraguayan javelin star Leryn Franco and U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte were considered to be the two most attractive athletes at the Games, according to web users

More than just a pretty face: Franco performed in the javelin for Paraguay during the Games

Web users believe that double gold swimmer Lochte (left) and Franco (right) are the most attractive Olympians

Sixty-five British medals have been won, competing individually or as part of a team. In team or individual events, Team GB has brought home 29 gold medals, 17 silver and 19 bronze. In terms of all competitors, 66 Team GB medallists went to state schools, 44 to private schools.

Thirty-four ex-state school pupils won gold, and 11 were privately educated; 15 silver medallists came from state schools and 13 from private. Of our bronze medallists, 19 were state-educated and 20 went to private schools. In Team GB overall, there have been 65 male medal winners and 45 female; 28 male gold medallists and 15 female; 17 male silver medal winners and 11 female; and 20 male bronze winners and 19 female.

The athlete with the longest non-hyphenated surname was Saeid Mohammadpourkarkaragh (26 letters). The Iranian weightlifter came fifth in the 94kg event.

World beater: U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian of all time and if he were a country would rank a remarkable 37th in the all time gold medal list

If U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps were a country, he would rank 37th in the all-time gold medal table. His total of 18 gold medals equals Austria and Ethiopia.

London 2012 was the eighth Olympics in which Italian canoeist Josefa Idem, 47, took part, a record for a female athlete. She finished fifth in the women’s Kayak Single 500m event.

At 71, the Japanese dressage rider Hiroshi Hoketsu was the oldest athlete at the Games. Meanwhile, 56-year-old dressage rider Richard Davison was the oldest member of Team GB. The youngest member of Team GB  was 15-year-old artistic  gymnast Rebecca ‘Twiggy’ Tunney.

Tom Daley is the most popular Team GB Twitter user, with 1,386,163 followers. Andy Murray has 1,118,677, Jessica Ennis 630,729 and Bradley Wiggins 533,626.

Pieces of sports equipment have been used at the Games, including 510 hurdles, 541 life-jackets, 600 basketballs, 6,000 archery target faces and 356 pairs of boxing gloves

An average of two marriage proposals were made each day on ‘Marry Mound’, a patch on the eastern lawn of Park Live, the Olympic Park’s big-screen venue, which saw 25 proposals during the Games.

Adjusted for gross domestic product (GDP), the medal table would read rather differently. Grenada would be top, followed by Jamaica, North Korea, Mongolia and Georgia.

Grenada has the most medals per capita, with 9.1734 medals per million people. Next is Jamaica with 4.44, followed by New Zealand with 2.99, the Bahamas with 2.88 and Cyprus with 0.89. India has the fewest with 0.005 per million people.

Four buried skeletons were found by builders as they prepared foundations for the Olympic Park.

The Duchess of Cambridge is the luckiest royal Olympics supporter: Team GB won five gold medals while she looked on. She also witnessed two silver medals and three bronze. Princes William and Harry saw only seven British medals between them.

Eighty-five per cent of Iceland’s 320,000 population watched their men’s handball team lose to Hungary in the quarter finals.

In terms of UK Sport funding, our swimming medals were the most expensive. Each one cost £8.3 million. Karina Bryant’s judo bronze was the second most expensive  at £3.74 million, while boxing medals were  the best value, coming in at £1.9  million for each one.

It took the Marshall Islands’ Timi Garstang 12.81 seconds to complete his 100m heat. That’s 3.18 seconds slower than Usain Bolt’s gold-medal-winning time of 9.63 seconds.

Tickets sold to the public totalled 8.8 million (compared with 3.4  million in Athens 2004).

Sponsor McDonald’s was mentioned 3,536 times in media coverage.

Team GB won gold medals across 20 different sports.

A total of 7.4 million people visited Olympic venues in the past fortnight, 2.4 million of them at the Olympic Park in Stratford.

Tough competition: Triple gold medallist used five less strides than his compatriot Yohan Blake as he pipped him to top spot in the 100m

On Tuesday, August 7, 4.5 million people travelled on the London Underground, making it the busiest day in its history.

Two hundred thousand people have worked at the Games, including more than 70,000 volunteers; while 10,490 athletes have participated.

Six grams of gold: Each gold medal took ten hours to make using a huge press

The tallest athlete at the Games was 7ft 3in Chinese basketball player Zhaoxu Zhang.

The highest bid offered for an Olympic torch, signed by Jessica Ennis, was £7,020. Bidding has now closed.

It took Usain Bolt 41 strides to break the Olympic 100m record in 9.63 seconds. Silver medallist Yohan Blake took 46 paces.

Peak viewing figures in the UK for the opening ceremony were 27million — one million more than saw Prince William get married last year.

It took ten hours to make each medal, using an enormous press called Colossus. The medals were designed by David Watkins, the special effects model-maker on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. There were six grams of gold in each gold medal.

Ten anaesthetists were present at the BMX track racing, more than for any other sport, because the speed and danger meant riders crashed out in nearly every race.

2.7 million bananas were eaten in the Olympic Village.

The Olympic Village contains 16,000 beds, 11,000 sofas, 22,000 pillows and 28,000 branded duvets.

The number of condoms per athlete handed out in the Olympic Village? Fifteen.