My commenters are right, the 4×100 freestyle relay was incredible. I just watched it a few minutes ago. I still can’t see if the USA anchor had an incredible leg, or the French anchor choked. Relatively speaking of course, since both teams crushed the world record. Just amazing. (Although – cheering louder than Celts/RS/Pats? C’mon!!!) It’s sad that they had to keep interviewing Phelps over and over, he had the second worst time on the team! And by the way, pull up your damn pants Michael! How would you like to be those French — you obliterate the world record by almost four seconds and somehow manage to lose.
I wish they would show more minor sports. Where’s the archery, pistols, velocidrome, curling, all those kinds of sports. I love volleyball, but enough is enough. I liked watching water polo, it was nice to see a sport I didn’t know anything about. I felt more educated when I announced after ten minutes that water polo is the dumbest sport in the world.
Bob Costas’s interview with Bush was really good. Funny how it takes a sportscaster to ask questions that are actually about policy instead of silly horserace questions. I wonder if it’s related that Bush’s responses were so much better than usual.
Those Chinese gymnasts are sick. The men are sick because they’re so good, the girls are sick because they’re all eight.