If you weren't paying close attention, you missed what happened just seconds before Usain Bolt won the 100-meter gold medal.
A man threw a plastic bottle towards the competitors, and it bounced about ten feet behind the runners as the men were on the starting blocks and in position to race.
"Throwing a bottle on to the field of play is unacceptable, it's not just unacceptable at an Olympics Games but at any sporting event and anybody who does that will be removed," said Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London organizing committee.
The bottle did not affect the race.
The man was arrested by London police, but not before he got a taste of street justice.
Edith Bosch was in the stands near the man and backhanded him after seeing the bottle thrown.
Oh, by the way, Bosch is an Olympic athlete. And a champion. In judo.
"I had seen the man walking around earlier and said to people around me that he was a peculiar bloke," she said. "Then he threw that bottle and in my emotion I hit him on the back with the flat of my hand."
Way to go, buddy. You did the dumbest thing possible next to someone with a legitimate license to beat your tail. And she did. Then you got arrested.
-Jeff Seemann
