Double digits now, as the sun rises on Day 10 in Beijing and environs. It's a day full of gold, in sports like track, cycling, gymnastics, trampoline, sailing, triathlon and weightlifting. Today, we'll also say hello to the tragically misunderstood sport of synchronized swimming, as the duet competition begins. Before we get to today's slate, let's take a last look at Day 9.

No new doping cases on Day 9, leaving the Swifter, Higher Drug Scoreboard at four, but it was revealed that nabbed Chinese Taipei baseball player Chang Tai-Shan may have tipped the test with fertility drugs. At the Olympics, there's no such thing as Too Much Information.

"Chang told the hearing he had been married for more than nine years and had been unable to reproduce, so in 2007 he saw a doctor, who diagnosed him with infertility, and he began to accept medication," Taiwan's Olympic Committee delegation said in a statement.

At the close of each day of competition, this blog will present the standings of all active team sports.

Results of the Day 9 competitions.

Beijing is plunged into darkness on the ninth day of competition, as the Olympic flame burns over a packed Bird's Nest at the second full night of track and field. What else is new?

BADMINTON: Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia had an entire nation on his shoulders hoping for a first-ever Olympic gold medal. But standing in the way was the flamboyant, spiky-haired Lin Dan of China.

Super Dan's victory was so complete, so total, so powerfully Boltian instead of split-second Phelpsian. After a 21-11 first set in which Dan appeared smooth and effortless, he unleashed a series of crushing forehands in the second. Covering the court with feline reflexes, Dan allowed only eight points in the most dominant clinching set in Olympic badminton history. Lee had his heart ripped out of its moorings, and this blog means that metaphorically. On the 20th point, a devastating smash as Lee crawled across the court to catch up, Dan signaled for the crazed crowd to calm down. Once the 21st came seconds later, Dan threw his racquet and shoes into the stands.

It's now evening in Beijing after a relatively light afternoon of competition. What's the latest?

SHOOTING: Four years ago in Athens, Matt Emmons of the U.S. was three points ahead in the three-position rifle competition going into the last shot. All he had to do was shot in the vicinity of the bullseye. If you've heard this story before, you know that he hit somebody else's target instead and fell to eighth. Today, poor Emmons relived his nightmare in real time. In the 2008 three-position rifle, he was leading going into the final and needed at least a 6.7-point shot (out of 10.9) on his last attempt to clinch gold. But his gun accidentally went off, Emmons scored 4.4, and he went from assured gold to a fourth place tin medal. It turned out that a burst of crowd noise startled the American as he was locking in his target, and his finger flinched to allow Jian Qiu of China to earn gold.

The first week of the Summer Games is always a big, beautiful mess -- preliminaries and rounds of 64, 20 things going on at once. Now, as we pass the halfway mark, the Olympics find their focus. The athletics stadium becomes the center of the sporting world, team sports progress into eliminations and medal rounds, and everything starts to make sense. Let's see what's going on here on this second Sunday.

ATHLETICS: Alarmism over a marathon course littered with collapsed, wheezing runners, overcome by Beijing's persistent smog, proved unfounded. But there was a lot of caution in the early going of the women's 26.2, with the runners bunching up in a tight pack for most of the race's hour. After nine miles, however, Romanian Constantina Tomescu had enough of all the tentativeness and quickly blew open the field. Nobody seemed interested in making a run at her, and she dominated the field in 2:26:44. It was still a relative crawl on a table-flat course that would end up being the second-slowest since the event was added for women in 1984 (the boiling pavement and steep late ascent at Barcelona 1992 yielded a 2:32:41). It was Tomescu's second career win and first in four years (Chicago, 2004). Catherine Ndereba of Kenya won her second consecutive Olympic marathon silver, finishing 26 seconds behind.