The 2012 Olympics kicked off on Saturday鈥攊f you don't count soccer, which you should鈥攁nd a lot of things happened. It's not easy to keep up with it all, especially since NBC's streams have been especially , so here are the five things you should know if you were only going to know five things about what happened over the weekend in London.
1. Kim Rhode, the 33-year-old shooter from California, the first American to win a medal in five straight Olympics. She hit 99 out of 100 targets in the skeet shooting competition to win her third gold to go along with a bronze and a silver. Rhode won her first medal (a gold) in Atlanta at 16, and she plans to compete in Brazil in 2016.
2. American Dana Vollmer a world record in the 100m butterfly. The 24-year-old won gold with a time of 55.98 despite losing one of her swimming caps midway through the race. Vollmer won a gold as part of the 4x200m freestyle team in 2004, but failed to qualify in any events for the Beijing Olympics.
3. The manufactured Phleps-Lochte rivalry is, well, somewhere. Lochte gold in the 400m individual medley, while Phelps finished off the medal stand for the first time since 2000. But then in a reverse of 2008鈥檚 4x100m freestyle relay, France victory from the U.S. on the last leg鈥攕wam by Lochte. Phelps鈥 47.15 split-time on the second leg gave the U.S. a huge lead. Important note: Lochte occasionally a grill.
4. Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, is pretty much the human being currently inhabiting Planet Earth. Johnson on women鈥檚 volleyball players: 鈥淭hey are glistening like wet otters and the water is plashing off the brims of the spectators鈥 sou鈥檞esters. The whole thing is magnificent and bonkers.鈥 Read his entire , now.聽
5. It is a terrible Olympics to be really good at whatever sport you do. Spain, currently the greatest soccer nation in the world, of the competition after losing their first two games. The South Korean men鈥檚 archery team to the U.S. in the semis, a day after setting a world record in the event. Mark Cavendish, a favorite in the men鈥檚 road race, in 29th place. The Australian 4x100m freestyle relay team didn鈥檛 medal, leading some to it 鈥淎ustralian swimming鈥檚 darkest day.鈥 And American Jordyn Wieber, the defending world all-around gymnastics champion, for the competition, losing out to her BEST FRIEND by 0.359 points.