I saw a referee afraid to deduct point against a British fighter (Evans) for repeatedly committing the same foul against his Canadian opponent (Clayton). Another bad decision.

Why would he be afraid? Perhaps he's just not big on issuing warnings. Refs seem to come in all shapes and sizes, some of them hand out warnings like cookies, some don't.

The more things change....

Another bad decision. What else is new?

He warned him three times for the same infraction (pushing opponents head down). By the rules, that should be an automatic point deduction. Plus, I didn't really see seven scoring blows landed by Evans in round one, but I know enough about judged sports in the Olympics to expect that the better athlete doesn't always get rewarded. The fight wasn't a highway robbery like was done to the French fighter in the previous bout, but it wasn't the right call, imo.

Is anyone else loving Teddy's commentary? So many of the announcers are such idiots. He calls it like he sees it, he knows the game of boxing, he's passionate and he has a wonderfully eccentric of phrase. I'm beginning to see him as the American Ron Atkinson.

There was one moment in the gymnastics when two girls were giving each other a pep talk which you could see very clearly but there were no mics to record it. The stupid announcer started like, 'talking' for the girls, going "You can do this. Listen to me. You can be the best. Yes. Yes I can. I can do this for my country." in this absurd Ron Burgundy voice.... it was unintentionally hilarious and extremely creepy. You won't catch Teddy doing that for some hooligan boxer and his toothless grizzled trainer when they're in the corner, thank fuck.

The US team has been sliding for quite a few Games now. Hopefully this is rock bottom, because honestly, I don't see how it could get any worse. I truly believe with the lack of boxing popularity over here, all our great athletes are in other sports.

Perhaps the American's should ease up on their immigration policy ...