London 2012 Day 9

Oh, dear! The Great Dane certainly shouldn't have made Big Ben angry!
 
Ben Ainslie lying in second place at the start of the day beat Jonas Hogh-Christensen from Denmark to win the Finn class and become the most decorated Olympic sailor in history after he clinched his fourth straight gold medal.
 
Also at Weymouth Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson were denied a second successive Olympic gold as Sweden won the final medal race to clinch the Star title. The British pair led going into the final but an eighth-placed finish meant silver as Sweden's Fredrik Loof and Max Salminen won the race and title. Brazil's Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada slipped from silver to bronze after coming seventh in a tense finale.
 
An excellent pommel horse competition with Louis Smith winning silver missing out on gold by the narrowest margin after his overall score tied with Hungarian Krisztian Berki but Berki won gold for a higher execution score. Britain also won the bronze medal courtesy of Max Whitlock.
 
Did I mention before that I wasn't a great fan of tennis at the Olympics? Well forget that. I cheered Andy Murray to the hilt as he defeated Federer in straight sets 6-2 6-1 6-4 in the men's final at Wimbledon and then with Laura Robson in the mixed doubles came very close to upsetting the Belarussian top seeds Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka, but in the end they had to settle for silver losing 2-6 6-3 10-8 (champions tie-break).
 
In the velodrome Ed Clancy added to his tally of medals with a bronze in the omnium. While there was an historic moment in the boxing when lightweight Natasha Jonas became the first female Briton to win an Olympic boxing match as the women's event made its debut at the Games.
 
In the athletics stadium it was going to be impossible to match last nights action from a British point of view but Christine Ohuruogu came close winning silver behind American Sanya Richards-Ross in the 400m. Christine seems to make a habit of coming up with great performances in the major championships.
 
Usain Bolt of course was the major draw of the evening and he didn't disappoint winning the 100m in an Olympic record                 9.63 from fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake's 9.75. In fact if the third Jamaican Asafa Powell hadn't pulled up injured then it would have been the fastest field in history with all eight runners finishing under 10 seconds.