Was Saturday Great Britain's finest-ever day of sport? I'll leave that to the historians.

Big busy Saturday morning and afternoon at the Triple-X Olympiad. Some highlights:

It's one whole week since the opening of the Games of the Triple-x Olympiad. As that traditional Australian saying goes: There are no winners and losers, just silver medallists. Here are a few random items from the first seven days that I haven't previously mentioned:

God save our gracious Queen
Long live our noble Queen
God save the Queen
Na na na na
Send her victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the Queen

Raelene Boyle. Frank Beaurepaire. Sam Riley. John Sumegi. Kevan Gosper. Ric Charlesworth. Lauren Jackson. And many more great Australian sportspeople whose greatest honour at the Olympic Games was the silver medal. Add James Magnussen to that list. For now at least.

The news on the Olympic baseball is that there is none. I will never stop grumbling about this.

"Eight disqualified for underperforming at badminton" is one of those sentences that I had failed to predict that I would be using during the London Olympics.

To coincide with Michael Phelps becoming the most-medalled Olympic athlete in history and with me using medal as a verb for the first and last time, here is an index to all my blog references to The Great Man over the past two Olympiads:

Happy birthday horses everywhere. And a special happy birthday to yesterday's gold medallists: Barny, King Artus, Opgun Luovo, Butts Abraxxus, and dual winner Sam.

Freebies for corporate partners is nothing new in Big Sports. Corporate partners not using their freebies is nothing new either. But the sight of empty seats - and lots of them - has struck a collective raw nerve at the London Games.