Venus Williams fondly recalls her and sister Serena Williams' historic hat-trick of gold medals at the 2012 London Olympic Games

Back in 2012, Serena and Venus Williams created history by becoming the first-ever doubles team to complete the 3-peat at the Olympic Games. The Williams sisters remain the only team to do so. Over 10 years since the iconic feat, Venus Williams recently looked back on the fond memories of the 2012 Games.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the sisters won their third consecutive Olympic women's doubles gold medal. They also won gold in the last two editions of the Olympics they competed in together, the 2000 Sydney Games and the 2008 Beijing Games.

The Williams sisters have nine Olympic medals between them, eight of them being gold medals and three being shared by the iconic tennis duo. After being reminded of her and Serena's epic achievement at the London Olympics, Venus Williams was thrilled to remember the "good times."

"The first and only duo in history to 3-peat Olympic gold in doubles. @venuswilliams and @serenawilliams set the standard and changed tennis for women everywhere," read a tribute post on Instagram from the American Olympic team.

"Let the good times roll," the older of the two Williams sisters wrote in response, on her Instagram story.

Venus Williams reacts to memories of her and Serena Williams' gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games.

The Williams sisters' Olympic doubles 3-peat did not come in three consecutive games. Serena Williams did not play at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. Meanwhile, by winning the doubles final in 2012, the duo notched up a 15-match winning streak at the Olympics.

Along with their three doubles gold medals, Serena Williams won a singles gold at the London Games, while Venus won singles gold at the 2000 Sydney Games and a mixed doubles silver medal at the 2016 Rio Games.

Venus Williams faces long layoff from tour due to "bad" hamstring injury

Venus Williams last competed at the 2023 ASB Women's Classic.

Venus Williams is not setting a timeline for her return to the WTA tour after picking up a hamstring injury in her first tournament of the 2023 season that forced her to withdraw from the Australian Open. During her second-round loss to Zhu Lin at the ASB Classic in Auckland in early January, Williams suffered a hamstring injury which she right away knew was a bad injury. Williams later revealed that she suffered multiple tears in her ligament.

Shedding light on her plans going forward, Williams can only hope that the injury does not keep her out for a very long period of time. She admitted that she was not in a position to set a date for her tennis return, but stressed the need to feel confident about her fitness again before thinking of a comeback.

"I think my next step is to get to to a place where I feel confident in my body again I definitely need to build confidence in it again and I'll get there, god willing. I'll take you guys on this journey with me, back to health, back to tennis hopefully. Hopefully sooner than later, I don't know exactly when but I'll let you know," Williams said in a video posted on her YouTube channel.