Funny stuff, but I went googlin' for #9 and I found this.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/olympics.asp
These have been bounced around since about 1999 in varying forms, but some actually sorta happened and are quite hilarious.
BTW, the #9 comment was supposedly about Andy Roddick being successful because of something his wife does with his tennis balls before the final. Clearly bogus simply because tennis players (let alone their wives) don't have access to the balls until they actually step onto the court.