London 2012: Day Nine Review!

(DISCLAIMER: Wednesday was day 8, Thursday was day 9.)

Some thoughts from day 9...

• First USA gold in judo as Kayla Harrison brought home the gold in the final match of her weight class! I think I've heard that she was abused sexually as a child and thought to give up judo, but never give up the fight. She had so much fight in that match, that it was Chuck Norris approved!
• Because of a match that the ref protected a boxer on Wednesday, that ref got expelled by AIBA from the games just for that tactic. A good move by AIBA to protect the integrity of the sport.
• Despite women's team pursuit's disqualification after they picked up the world record, Team GB still got gold anyway and for Sir Chris Hoy, it's gold number 5! It was the first day of track cycling!
• Yesterday marked the swan song from Olympic competition for Kim Clijsters who lost in two sets in the singles quarterfinal to Maria Sharapova. Clijsters' final big competition is the US Open which begins later this month, and then possibly retirement. Remember Kim won the USO back to back in '09 and '10, but didn't play in '11 due to injury.
• Bulgaria continues to look good in men's volleyball. Thinking gold perhaps?
• Montenegro/Serbia-at an 11-11 draw-was one of the best matches of the men's water polo tournament, hands down.
• USA men's basketball won by 83 over Nigeria. A record breaking win of mass proportions!
• Team GB men's basketball looked great despite a close loss to Spain. The best performance for that team in the men's basketball tournament so far.
• If only Brazil called time out with 3.8 left. Also there should've been a four point play after the three point shot. Two point lead for Russia. Already, Australia/France women's match is still the best match in the basketball at London so far, and it could possibly get better!
• Funny that Rebecca Soni broke the world record set at the Fina World Championships in Rome 2009 by-you guessed it-Rebecca Soni. She won her second straight 200m breast gold in the Olympics, and on her twitter (@rebsoni), tweeted that she is planning to keep that pink Arena suit of hers for those final races only. 2013 Fina championships perhaps?
• Television. TV cameras showed one of the defenders in the Spain/USA women's water polo match from Wednesday with one of her breasts exposed. No network who carried this have not received a warning yet, despite the fact the camera shots are only of the IOC, which is their feed and not the feed of those covering the London games (i.e. BBC, NBC, CTV, Nine Australia, etc.).

So there you have it, day 10 today features women's football quarterfinals and the first day of athletics!