Olympics quotes of the day

Quotes of the day, collected by APNZ.

Kim Chon Sok, a department director of North Korea's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, on the country's medal haul so far: "Some evil-minded foreign media asserted that the DPRK would take only one silver medal, but our sportspersons refuted such assertion with good results."

Peter Forrest, a street performer in Covent Garden, on small crowds during the Olympics: "It's because of [London Mayor] Boris, Boris told everybody not to come."

Former USA Swimming National Team member Carly Geehr, on peeing in the pool: "Regularly. Some deny it, some proudly embrace it, but everyone does."

Conspiracy theorist David Icke on the Opening Ceremony: "The Olympic Stadium is strategically placed on the earth-energy grid to tap into the immense London and British power centres and this is why Glastonbury Tor, one of the most significant earth-vortex points in the UK, is a centrepiece of the opening ceremony. The microcosm (the model of Glastonbury Tor in the Olympic stadium) draws in the energy from its macrocosm. It is an expression of the holographic principle of 'as above, so below'. This is how symbolism works."

New Zealand rower Juliette Haigh on the moments leading up to and winning bronze overnight: "A lot goes through the head and heart just dealing with the pain, my arms were seizing up but I didn't want to do anything disastrous. I was literally hanging on and praying we could get our nose in front of the Australians. My [initial] feeling was we may have missed out. That's why I put my head down, I almost didn't want to look. I felt I had given every part of myself."