Starting with the previous night...- The Peacock gets the gold in teasing!
- 10:32p Eastern: Phelps’ final medal ceremony coming up, but first let’s take a look at random events of the day…
- 10:34p: We’ll be back with Phelps’ medal ceremony, right after this!
- 10:37p: A review of the swim relays
- 10:42p: A rerun of Usain Bolt’s preliminary 100m sprint from earlier that day
- 10:47p: We’ll be back with Phelps’ medal ceremony, right after this!
- 10:51p: Still getting ready for that medal ceremony, so let’s go back to the track...
- 11:01p: Another segment at the track
- 11:08p Yet another segment at the track
- 11:12p: We have medal ceremony!!!
- Total tease time: 40 minutes
- Women’s Marathon not boring enough for you? Let’s go over to golf! <zzzzzz>
- 9 days in, and I finally saw the amorphous blob that is Rio’s mascot. I guess it’s a cat?
- As the afternoon begins, we get synchronized swimming as a palate cleanser. All I can think of is the old SNL routine.
- Ugh—more golf. The color commentator sounds like Uncle Joe from Petticoat Junction.
- Then it's the equestrian competition. I'm always expecting Thurston Howell III to show up. " Buffy, if you don't get the gold we'll never be able to show our faces at the Polo Club."
- The Peacock reported that Ryan Lochte and three other athletes were robbed at gunpoint last night. I wonder why the spectator stands are almost empty...
More to come...