Olympic goods and bads

US protest women's 100 metres final: claim one of their athletes false started and want a rerun (the poor girl came last...with a false start...please); want to get the bronze medal because they feel that their runner who was fourth was really third because the Jamaicans tied for second. OK. Let...me...write...it...slowly. Real eejyat! Maybe the Caribbean countries should claim the medals for all those athletes born in the region who now wear the US suits...equally silly?

Cameroon's Francoise Mbango wins women's triple jump gold after jumping 15.39m - a new Olympic record. Good to see African women move out of just track stardom.

Kenenisa Bekele claims gold in men's 10,000 metres, with new Olympic record is 27:01.17, and doing a Bolt over the last 20 metres. Ethiopians locking up the events again. Selassie-I.

By winning the men's hammer title, Primoz Kozmus wrote sports history for Slovenian athletics, getting their first ever Olympic gold.

Walter Dix fashion statement-not, with those fingerless evening gloves. He did not wear them in the finals, though. Is that why he came third? With them on he might have come last?

Williams sisters go 10-0 in Olympic tennis doubles.

Jamaicans making a public plea for the country to unite around the Olympic successes, and seek to remove violence from our lives, and for gun men to realise that they are murdering future champions. Former PM Portia Simpson-Miller said it this morning on TV; Ms. Fraser's mother said it too, noting that good can come from the ghetto (her family live in Waterhouse, a tough district of Kingston). I will claim that I said it first