Usain Bolt or whatever is a fast motherfucker.

Usain Bolt or whatever is a fast motherfucker.

Indeed he is. Both Gold medals in 100m and 200m sprint, plus he broke both world records. I loved his celebratory dance after winning the 200m.

I've never swam so I don't know for certain if this is true, but I have run track and the difference between the 100 and the 200 is huge. The 100 is a pure sprint. You run as fast as you can down a short stretch of track. The 200 is similar, but it's longer and unless you're a running machine, you can't run at 100% top speed the whole time. You have to find the balance between speed and endurance and that's why there are so many of these events, because not many people have that perfect mix like Michael Phelps. Phelps is amazing in that he is an overall great swimmer, but some people are just made to do the 200, just like how others are made to do the 3200. Phelps is such a big deal because a person has never before been able to take every single event.

But yeah, I'm not a swimmer so it could be totally different. Swimming probably takes a lot more endurance so I might be completely off the mark!

heh... tell that to usain bolt.....

Man it would suck to be that guy who got disqualified from the 200m.

EDIT:
I guess both of them now...

For people who didn't see the weightlifting accident (from page 2, only 2 people talked about it), you can see it here:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/share.html?videoid=WL1H-BJ-SD17-081308-095505

or here:
http://daveandthomas.net/blog/?p=4837

I'm going to warn you and say that you don't want to see it. It is....very very painful and gruesome.

My fellow countryman

yeah this was pretty horrible. Fortunately no bones were broken in his arm so he will be fine in few weeks and he can continue the weightlifting.

to be on topic: it seems we are going to face the united states in the water polo finals, I wonder who will be the winner(not really). Nice beating against the serbs btw

Hey, Trinidad won 2 silver medals... lost to Usain Bolt twice. Fuckin' Bolt

Apparently that Nadia chick that lost to the Chinese girl in gymnastics might end up getting the gold medal after all, they did a background check and found out that the Chinese gymnast was underage and thus not qualified to preform in the Olympics.

Did anyone see some Taekwondo athlete attack one of the referees when he was DQd for taking more than 1 minute of injury time? What a sore loser. Apparently he's now banned from all future international events along with his coach (that sucks for him.. even if he gets to coach another athlete he'd still be forbidden to show up).

Also, hooray for Polska! We got a silver medal in women's mountain bike yesterday! (I can't believe I spent 2 hours watching the race... but it sure paid off!)

Did anyone see some Taekwondo athlete attack one of the referees when he was DQd for taking more than 1 minute of injury time? What a sore loser. Apparently he's now banned from all future international events along with his coach (that sucks for him.. even if he gets to coach another athlete he'd still be forbidden to show up).

It was a pretty shitty situation (getting DQ'd because you can't feel your foot right now/walk without being in hysterical pain) and the Cuban just took it to hilarious lengths. Gotta love the Cubans, one of their boxers bit Mr. Degale in the Middleweight final.

Anyway, looking forward to some epic outro with Jackie Chan singing

I'm always so sad when the olympics end... ;_; I don't even like watching sports normally but I love the olympics because they're so special.

Just two more years... just two more years...

Mateui just loves too much.

Wow huge upset in the men's 10M diving final.
The Chinese diver bent his legs going into the water and ended up with sevens, setting the stage for the Australia to get a near perfect score (1.9 points off) and take the gold.

lol 8 minute presentation for london olympics what do we do??

*drive bus into stadium* that is so lame

Haha, oh London!

The closing ceremony is pretty fantastic though. That big spiral flower thing whatever was awesome

but it was a transformer bus

seriously, it was all made better when jimmy page started working his ol' magic

and then of course jackie chan

Man I missed jackie chan

I'm always so sad when the olympics end... ;_; I don't even like watching sports normally but I love the olympics because they're so special.

Just two more years... just two more years...

I feel the same way, I'm a sucker for the theatrics of the whole thing.

I always follow the summer olympics whenever they come around... this year I was just so busy all the time that I didn't get a chance to. I saw the 100 metre dash with Usain Bolt and the finals for Basketball with the US winning it.. I'd never miss those.

Wanted to catch the Martial arts and weight lifting as well though but just didn't get an opportunity to.. Comes once every 4 years.. I'll miss em