Bev Wake keeps an eye out for the witty, wild and plain ridiculous.

Bus-iness as usual:

There’s been a lot of talk at these Olympics about transportation and how the buses in Rio never seem to arrive on time or leave on time or show up at all. You get the picture. But at least one athlete has given props to the drivers for making up time once they actually do show up. At least we think she’s giving them props.

“The coach drive in is crazy,” Charlotte Dujardin, who competed for Great Britain in dressage, said of her daily commute. “The drivers drive so fast here. Like, I can’t help but looking and thinking, ‘Yep, we’re 10 seconds fast. Nope, now we’re 20 seconds fast. Nope, now we’re a minute fast.’

“And when we go around a corner, the wheels will just screech across the road and we’re holding on for grim death around these poles. I’m like, ‘Could we pay for this roller-coaster ride?’”

C-legs:

Ever wonder how exhausting it would be to go full out in a canoe for 1,000 metres? “Well I’m telling you this,” Russian Ilia Shtokalov said after his C-1,000-metre semifinal. “It was even difficult for me to get up these 10 steps — and I had to take a rest after doing it.”

Chicks dig the small ball:

Brazilian table tennis player Hugo Calderano has been enjoying the spotlight since finishing ninth in both men’s singles and the team event.

“It’s new for me,” said the 20-year-old, “but I think mostly it’s because people thought they didn’t like table tennis, but they do ... it’s not a boring sport like many people may think as they just play ping-pong for fun.”

Or maybe it’s something else.

“I have had some propositions,” Calderano confessed when asked about his celebrity status, “but I’ve just refused. I have had a girlfriend for four years now ... she doesn’t need to worry about this.”

A way with words:

Dutch field hockey player Naomi van As, on the Netherlands beating Germany 4-3 in a shootout to advance to the women’s field hockey final: “F---ing hell, oh my God. Oh, it was so exciting. Sick, sick.”