Inside the Olympic Stadium, my colleague Barry Glendenning has bumped into a lovely family who just happened to get four front row seats at the 50m mark on the finishing straight for £75 each from the Locog website earlier in the week.
With the season effectively over at the three-quarter mark, the Panthers finished 4-0, ensuring that Rivera would be back for another season.
The glass goes back to 1913, according to Garrett Wellins, the owner and chef, a man who likes to put the finishing scorch marks on his burgers with a blowtorch.
But around 2 30, investors began to hunt for bargains, sending the Dow briefly back above the 10,000 mark, before finishing the day at 9,955.50.
Lambie, a senior at the Bromfield School in Harvard, Mass., left no doubt about her superiority in the girls' mile, moving away from the field before the halfway mark and finishing in 4 39.05, the fourth fastest ever by a United States high school girl.
The end marked the finish to a long few days for both teams.
Here in Seadrift, named for the hurricane wreckage that once floated downriver as flotsam, a stone marks the finish line.
Wednesday, a team of 11 dogs pulled Lance Mackey through the rough wooden arch that marks the finish line of the 1,100-mile 1,100-mileace between Anchorage and Nome.
After the Britons crossed the bubbling water that marks the finish, Pinsent scrambled backward to hug Redgrave and fell into the water.
He smashed into a pillar marking the finish line and was pronounced dead at the scene after attempts to revive him failed, the police said.
