1) South Africa's 6ft 6in pace-man Morne Morkel may be big but sometimes he's not too clever. However, his exit is a little more dignified than that of Svetlana Tsarukaeva, a Russian Olympic weightlifter who hits the wall in more ways than one. If you laughed, you're cruel. Still, neither of those are as embarrassing as Steve McClaren's attempts to ingratiate himself in the Netherlands by conducting interviews in a Dutch accent.
2) Not content with being the nearest thing to a human fish since Daryl Hannah in Splash, Michael Phelps is also a right greedy pig who eats 12,000 calories a day. But he's got nothing on this chomping champion.
3) More stuff plundered from the Olympic vaults is this clip of Dorando Pietri, an exhausted Italian pastry-cook who 'won' the Olympic Marathon in London 1908 despite collapsing five times in White City stadium and being helped across the line by smartly-dressed officials - which later got him disqualified.
4) The International Olympic Committee should give tennis, beach volleyball and football the heave-ho and introduce some of this lot: disciplines from the Mongolian Olympics and wife-carrying from Finland.
5) And with the Premier League season beginning on Saturday, here are some nifty-looking newcomers that may, or may not, be the real deal: Spurs' Luca Modric and Giovani Dos Santos, Manchester City's Jo, Arsenal's Samir Nasri, Bolton's Johan Elmander, Chelsea's Deco, Middlesbrough's Marvin Emnes, and Newcastle's Jonas Gutierrez.
And our favourites from last week's blog
1) The NBA's Steve Nash, a Canadian guard playing for the Phoenix Suns, has got a pretty good touch for a big man. And he's not bad in the air either.
2) Glenn Hoddle's diamond highlights.
3) Don't watch this if you're sacred of heights or, indeed, of chubby daredevil divers in tight red pants.
4) If you've ever wanted to see Manchester United's Carlos Tevez and Anderson play Connect 4, cards and Jenga you should click here ... and probably get out more.
5) And here is Hornussen, a game played by Swiss farmers that's a bit like golf but weirder. A great deal weirder.
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