Wukie doesn't get to use a crossbow.

Not to mention the sculls with coxswain.

Ok, the biggest difference between the men and women's soccer is the goalkeeping.

Hey, leave Hope Solo alone. I clearly saw her first.

Wait.... I'm watching this now! Grrrrrr.....

Have one big ol' melee; one fencer with a flaming foil.

There is team foil. I don't have a clue how it works.

In the Team events, teams of three fencers compete against their opponents over a series of nine three-minute bouts, with the aim of accumulating a maximum of 45 hits to win the match.

So, 3 minute bouts instead of 9 minute, and I guess it's up to 5 instead of 15.

Is it? If matches were to 5, you'd have to win all 9 to score 5 points. If matches were to 9, then the team with 45 would have won 5 out of 9 matches. Or is it some kind of aggregate scoring?

anyone else grow to hate the silver medalist in women's foil? she would scream after what she thought was every point and repeatedly demand replays.

Well, #NBCFail is popular with me today because ... I can't seem to be able to watch *anything* online for more than about 10-15 minutes before it starts irrevocably locking Firefox up and forcing me to shut down and restart.

There's a memory leak in NBC's web player that will cause it to crash a lot of browsers. One browser page in 30 minutes is using 3 GB of RAM

...as athletic action began ramping up on Saturday, NBC's streaming service showed it was not up to the challenge. As we anticipated earlier, the service is stretched to the limit.

Numerous complaints were Tweeted and posted on the Internet. The first complaint was based on a misunderstanding. Many viewers were unaware that in order to stream the video, they had to submit their cable / satellite TV company username and password. That requirement hadn't been widely publicized.

Next, as viewers piled onto the Michael Phelps / Ryan Lochte 400 IM showdown, which wasn't broadcast live on any of NBC's various networks (and spoiler alert, which Lochte won, by the way, as Phelps finished fourth) the streaming service groaned and burped under the strain.

Not only was the stream itself a problem, so was the web app. Deadspin's Timothy Burke Tweeted that the player (which he said was from Google) was leaking memory, in Chrome, IE, and Firefox.

NBC had best work quickly to fix these issues. On Monday, it will see its version of Cyber Monday. People will be heading back to work, and since they will want to view events while they work (productivity will drop, of course), it will place a still further strain on NBC's servers.

There's a memory leak in NBC's web player that will cause it to crash a lot of browsers. One browser page in 30 minutes is using 3 GB of RAM

Yeah, it was frustrating, as was repeatedly being told I wasn't authenticated despite having just logged in. NBC completely Britta'd it.

Is 'Destinee' the worst possible first name for a girl whose last name is Hooker?

Seems unnecessarily cruel by whomever made that decision.

Ok the bows in archery are a little ridiculous.

That London 2012 font is awful.

Here in Canuckistan, I was able to watch four different channels showing four different live events (during the morning and afternoon):

After watching the women's skeet medal round, it's hard to accept that these events both get the same medal. Come on.

I can't decide if there are too many swimming events - or if the Olympics are not missing out by failing to add half-court basketball, right-hand-dribble-only basketball, six-minute-game basketball, and 120-minute games by actual clock (that would take 4+ hours to play), with no timeouts allowed.

Great, Canada's first medal: bronze in 3m women's synchronized diving. One of them became the first Canadian with a medal in 4 consecutive Games.

Sure they don't. But as you say that is partly because soccer is so globally popular that the IOC desperately wants it in. And while the best players don't all show up, pretty good ones do show up. Are you going go claim that the level of the soccer players showing up, for example, Suarez of Uruguay, are at the same level of the baseball players who showed up?

With the baseball season being in direct conflict with the Olympics, there is no way that baseball can work in the Olympics. Baseball is better off with the WBC for international play.

LONDON – She's 16 years old, and for 50 meters on Saturday night, she swam faster than U.S. superstar Ryan Lochte. And now China's Ye Shiwen is at the center of some controversial buzz at the Aquatics Center of these Olympic Games.
Shiwen smashed the world record in the women's 400-meter IM and took gold Saturday night, torching the final 100 meters in the event and coming from behind to beat U.S. 400 IM champion Elizabeth Beisel. Shiwen shaved more than a second off Australian Stephanie Rice's world record in her win, finishing at 4:28.43. But it was her final 100 meters – the freestyle leg of the event – that raised eyebrows. Not only did Shiwen go virtually stroke-for-stroke with Lochte – who had won gold in the men's 400 IM earlier in the night – she beat Lochte in the final 50 meters.