"We've been playing really well lately. To come up short on what our goal was, it's a hard loss. It was a tough loss — the toughest loss of our careers." — American beach volleyball player Sean Rosenthal after he and Jake Gibb lost to Latvia in the Olympic quarterfinals.

— Jimmy Golen — Twitter http://twitter.com/jgolen

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EDITOR'S NOTE — "Eyes on London" shows you the Olympics through the eyes of Associated Press journalists across the 2012 Olympic city and around the world. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item.