For two action-packed weeks, Newsweek/Daily Beast photographer Donald Miralle captured the most exciting events at the 2012 Summer Games. See the best of his work here.
Day 13: Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins the men's 200-meter semifinal, on his way to another gold.
Day 11: Annette Edmondson of Australia bikes during the Women's Omnium, a collection of six biking events. Edmondson walked away with silver.
Day 10: A women's marathon finalist.
Day 10: Ezekial Kemboi of Kenya (right) celebrates winning the gold medal with silver medalist Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad of France in the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Day 10: Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins the men's 100-meter final for the second time, beauting out countryman Yohan Blake.
Day 8: USA's Serena Williams crushed Russia's Maria Sharapova in two sets, winning her first individual tennis gold.
Day 8: A view of the swim start during the women's triathlon final.
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Day 8: Erin Densham of Australia collapses after winning a bronze medal in the women's triathlon.
Day 7: The mens' fencing team finals.
Day 7: Tarek Abdelazim of Egypt collapses after a unsuccessful lift during the Men's 85-KG weightlifting final.
Day 7: Joseph Schooling of Singapore, Pavel Sankovish of Belarus, and Benjamin Hckin Brusquetti Hockin of Paraguay during swimming preliminaries.
Day 4: Sandra Auffarth of Germany competes during the equestrian individual and team eventing final.
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Day 5: Team China dives during the women's 10-meter synchronized diving final. They won gold.
Day 4: Serguei Fofanoff of Brazil competes during the equestrian individual and team eventing final.
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Day 7: Rebecca Soni of the U.S. swims to a gold medal and new world record 2:19.59 in the women's 200-meter breaststroke final.
Day 3: Vavrinec Hradilek of the Czech Republic competes in the men's kayak slalom preliminaries.
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Day 6: The men's synchronized three-meter springboard diving finals.
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Day 6: Women's swimming finals.
Day 3: Aleksander Lipatov of Russia competes in the men's kayak slalom preliminaries.
Day 6: A view of the men's beach volleyball preliminaries.
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Day 4: Sandra Auffarth of Germany competes during equestrian individual and team eventing finals.
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Day 3: Team France celebrates winning the gold medal in the men's 4x100 freestyle relay.
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Day 2: Im Dong Hyun of Korea pulls his arrows from the target after breaking the world record during the men's individual archery ranking round. Im is legally blind.
Day 7: Tyler Clary of the U.S. celebrates his gold medal and new Olympic record time of 1:53.41 in the men's 200-meter backstroke.
Day 13: A competitor on the track during the BMX seeding phase runs.
Day 13: Allyson Felix of the U.S. wins the women's 200-meter final.
Day 14: Team Great Britain enters the water during the synchronized swimming competition.
Day 14: Kenya's David Rudisha sets a world record in the men's 800-meter final.
Day 13: Usain Bolt celebrates another sprinting gold with his trademark victory dance.
