London 2012: Day 4

(Jon might be calm and reasonable today, but has decided to continue the daily Olympic recaps for some reason. This is your open thread for tonight's primetime coverage, should you deign to participate, which exhaustive research has shown is highly unlikely.)

Today's Olympic WTF?: "WTF was the deal with cash changing hands?" Yesterday, this happened twice, although most people only saw the second incident: during the fencing incident, and during the completion of the men's gymnastics team event. The IOC insituted a rule requiring any team filing an appeal to provide a "bounty" when requesting an appeal or inquiry. In order to reduce the incidence of frivolous appeals, the team requesting the appeal must provide