THE OLYMPICS: Official Thread of All-Things Games! (Sportsmanship Required)- Page 25

[clever name]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:23pm

These teammates seem to really like each other!
Updated On: 8/16/08 at 11:23 PM

[rose_pearl]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:23pm

Damn, I missed the ad!

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:25pm

I loved the shots from the Ravens new stadium. It is their very first game in the new stadium and all the fans stuck around after the end to watch Phelps make history on the jumbotrons. Huzzah!

Updated On: 8/16/08 at 11:25 PM

[Jane2]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:26pm

Yay Jason Lezak.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:39pm

Good job to your agency adgal!

[EugLoven]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:42pm

EIGHTH WONDER

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:45pm

***spoiler***




















lightning freakin' bolt, huh? 9.69, a world record and he was shutting it down 15 meters from the end!!! un-effin'-real.

Updated On: 8/16/08 at 11:45 PM

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:48pm

Great night for watching the Olympics!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:53pm

Michael's eyes are all filled up.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:56pm

A true champion.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 8/16/08 at 11:57pm

I was out doing my show but I heard people down the street cheering at a bar and I knew what happened. AMAZING!!!

[clever name]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 12:00am

OK, Michael hugging his family just made me cry.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 12:04am

He has been SUCH a trooper, giving all of the interviews.

I know he is exhilarated, but he must also be exhausted.
I wonder when this is all going to become real to him?!

Updated On: 8/17/08 at 12:04 AM

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 12:05am

He's so modest...how refreshing!!!

[Yawper]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 12:25am

The real downside of watching stuff like this is that now I feel totally inadequate

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 12:45am

Yawper, take a cue from Dara Torres, Jason Lezak and Constantina Tomescu, ages 41, 32 and 38, respectively. Oh, and Natalie Du Toit, who runs on August 20.

As Dara said tonight, "Don't put an age limit on your dreams."

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 1:16am

I started to feel like that watching him swim the other day. (We are the same age.) Then I thought about all the things I am doing with my life and realized we're just different. Not better or worse than one another. Just different.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 1:24am

Gunny, your heart is made of gold. You don't need a medal.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 3:45am

Oh what a night! That was fantastic. I was tearing up ...

So sad I missed Dara's race, but so happy she won!

And Lighting Bolt - unreal.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 10:10am

Yawper, I keep joking at my house that we should go to a track and time ourselves running the 100 meters, and to a pool to swim 50 meters, just to see how we compare with these amazing people, to see just how good they really are!

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 12:11pm

And well done, Jason Lezak, for winning Phelps two golds! :)

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 1:42pm

I really hate myself right now. I wanted to make sure that gymnastics were included in tonight's schedule via NBC's site. Of course I forgot they are 12 hours ahead, so that stuff already happened, and now I know the results. Oh well, now I will just have to watch and see why whoever won, deserved to win.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 2:53pm

I thought they showed the gymnastics live? They have for all the other gymnastics events.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 4:20pm

Apparently these final individual medal events are not. From what I read, they occured at 6pm today their time, which was 6am our time. So yeah, do not go to NBC's olympic page, unless you don't care or want to know who wins right now. Oh yeah, and the rest of the gymnastics are on tomorrow and Tuesday, with an exhibition on Wednesday.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 8/17/08 at 5:01pm

Shbrt, while Lezak certainly deserves our congratulations, I think saying the he won Phelps two golds is overstating the case. I'll give you the first one, but Michael gave the team enough of a lead last night that I think he deserves some of the credit!