Spain's Juan Mata reacts to a missed goal opportunity. (Getty)

Three days after Japan's 1-0 win over Spain in the first round of Olympic men's soccer Group D was hailed as the "Miracle of Glasgow," Honduras repeated that result for itself, beating Spain 1-0 to eliminate one of the clear favorites from the tournament. With one group match left to play against Morocco, Spain's shocking inability to score a single goal in its first two matches -- making it the only team in the competition to do so -- will prevent any chance of advancing to the quarterfinals.

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Along with Brazil, Spain was an overwhelming favorite to contend for gold in the men's soccer competition. Mere weeks ago, Spain's senior team won a record third consecutive major tournament at Euro 2012 (the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2008 being the other two) and the country's U-21 and U-19 teams are both reigning European champions. This has been an unprecedented golden age of dominance for Spain's possession heavy style of play at all levels, yet even with three members of the Euro 2012 winning squad -- Juan Mata, Jordi Alba and Javi Martinez -- among the Olympic team comprised of U-23 players and three overage players, it still came up astoundingly short.

An IOC volunteer tasked with shepherding fans into Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremony made the job less tedious by delivering a sarcastic set of stream-of-consciousness instructions that prominently included passing ticket holders, policemen and media members.

A delighted man -- he was laughing so hard he had trouble holding the camera still -- took video of the woman and posted it to YouTube, where it has over 200,000 views in the first 48 hours.

Jordyn Wieber's failure to make the all-around finals at the Olympics sent shock waves through the gymnastics world. Immediately fingers started pointing as to why the defending world all-around champion won't get to compete for that title at the Olympics.

Bela Karolyi, the longtime gymnastics coach and husband of U.S. team coordinator Martha Karolyi, blamed the lineup.

"This shouldn't have happened," said Karolyi, the husband of current national team coordinator Marta Karolyi. "This is a definite line-up mistake."

In Bela Karolyi's view, Wieber should have competed last. The last gymnast competing is "supposed to be the best on the team."