Here's what we've found so far on day three.
Should have kept hold of them Lizzie If you come across a pair of Oakley sunglasses somewhere along the route of the women's cycling road race, could you let Surrey Police know?
They might belong to silver medal winner Lizzie Armitstead, who's lost them and would like them back before Wednesday's time trial at Hampton Court Palace.
News of the missing glasses came in a tweet from @SurreyPolice.
"Lost: 1 pair lucky Oakley Sunglasses. Owner: @L_ArmiTstead. Pls hand in. She'd like them back for #TimeTrials on Weds."
It was only a matter of time, wasn't it?
As the debate continues about the spaces at Olympic venues, up pops an @OlympicSeat account on Twitter.
Its first pronouncement was simply: *sigh* followed up a short time later by: "I'm so depressed" and "I feel so empty".
Later, the utterances became more profound: "Seven years I've been waiting for this moment, seven long years and for what?"
Will the story have a happy ending with an emotional meeting of bum on seat? Stay tuned folks.
The Reuters news agency is reporting that archery has been made cool again, thanks to the sci-fi movie The Hunger Games.
The film's teenage heroine is an expert with bow and arrow in hand as she competes in a life-and-death battle.
Brady Ellison, whose American team lost a nail-biting Olympic final to Italy, said: ""One of the great things about the Olympics is that it brings a lot of the smaller sports into the limelight every four years.
"It's a lot more popular right now. Let's hope it stays that way."
New Zealand's hopes of qualifying for the final of the women's quadruple sculls at Eton Dorney were dashed when an oar broke with about 400m remaining in the repechage race.
The Kiwis were third at the time - with four boats going through - when Fiona Bourke was left stranded on Dorney Lake. They finished last, 30 seconds behind winner Australia.
Bourke looked distraught as her boat crawled past the finishing line.
Khalil El-Maoui - now you see him, then you don't Tunisia may have missed out on its first medal at the London Olympics because of bad arithmetic.
Weightlifter Khalil El-Maoui was in second place of the men's 56kg competition after the snatch but didn't showed up on the platform for the second lift, the clean and jerk.
Afterward, he blamed his coach for submitting an entry weight that was 10 kilograms too high.
"It was a mistake," El-Maoui said. "I should have started lifting at 148 kilograms but my coach entered 158 kilograms by mistake."
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