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[SoxScout]

Yea, photos from above and below show that he touched first... have fun with your damn asterik.

Edited by SoxScout, 16 August 2008 - 01:05 AM.

[Monbo Jumbo]

Those types of lane dividers have been around for years.

[Ed Hillel]

Well, the replay does really seemto show the Serbian finished ahead of Phelps. It'll be a 8* in my mind if he wins in the relay tomorrow.

False. Photos clearly show that Phelps touched first. As do the replays from certain angles.

[Tito's Pullover]

Yea, photos from above and below show that he touched first... have fun with your damn asterik.

This is the smoking gun, right here. Thanks for posting this. This is the first time I'm actually entirely convinced he won.

[kenneycb]

That picture really accentuates Phelps' ridiculous wingspan (I think its 6'7").

USA! USA! USA!

[cutman1000]

What's the schedule for today?

[SoxScout]

10:03 Women's 50m Freestyle -- Final TORRES

10:09 Men's 1500m Freestyle -- Final

10:40 Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Finals COUGHLIN SONI TORRES

10:58 Men's 4x100m Medley Relay -- Final PHELPS

Edited by SoxScout, 16 August 2008 - 08:26 PM.

[Obscure Name]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

[njingles3]

Torres misses gold by a hair.

[Obscure Name]

Protest!

[njingles3]

Larsen Jensen looks like a drag queen.

[sachmoney]

I'm really disappointed that Torres didn't win the gold, but it's remarkable that a woman her age is destroying women half her age in the pool. She's amazing, and a true inspiration.

Here's some perspective on Michael Phelps, the US has won 16 Gold Medals...Phelps has seven of them. We'd look like just another country if we didn't have him. Additionally, it's amazing how good China has been this year. I don't know whether it's because it's in Beijing, or that China has really become the best in the world in many events. I expect the US to take over considering China's best events have been played.

[njingles3]

I'm really disappointed that Torres didn't win the gold, but it's remarkable that a woman her age is destroying women half her age in the pool. She's amazing, and a true inspiration.

Here's some perspective on Michael Phelps, the US has won 16 Gold Medals...Phelps has seven of them. We'd look like just another country if we didn't have him. Additionally, it's amazing how good China has been this year. I don't know whether it's because it's in Beijing, or that China has really become the best in the world in many events. I expect the US to take over considering China's best events have been played.

I don't buy it. In the last several Summer games, besides '88, the US has "won" the swimming medal count by double digits. In '88 the East Germans had the most, other than that it's all US. If it wasn't Phelps it would be someone else, just not as many golds.

edit: I didn't check them all but it's actually more like every single Summer Olympics besides '88.

Edited by njingles3, 16 August 2008 - 09:32 PM.

[Ananti]

Even if you take away all Phelps golds, the US would still be tied for 2nd in Golds, and still 1st in overall medals, so no, we would not look like "just another country".

That doesn't even take into account that we'd won at least 2 of those 7 without him, we blew the field away in the relay, and we had a Gold/Silver finish, and who knows what the next swimmer on the USA depth chart could have done.

Phelps is phenomenal, and of course having him is much better than not having him, but team USA is more than Phelps.

[fletcherpost]

I don't buy it. In the last several Summer games, besides '88, the US has "won" the swimming medal count by double digits. In '88 the East Germans had the most, other than that it's all US. If it wasn't Phelps it would be someone else, just not as many golds.

edit: I didn't check them all but it's actually more like every single Summer Olympics besides '88.

It's worth metnioning that at the Olympics, each nation is only allowed to enters two swimmers per event. But in many cases the USA left behind several swimmers who had times that would have put them on any other team, in finals and winning medals. The USA has such strength in depth. Not only that...many many swimmers from other nations choose to train in the USA. the Tunisian that just won the 1500M trains in the USA, Kirsty Coventry, trains in the USA. The USA has the best, infrastructure when it comes to swimming.

Just like the UK has the best for track cycling. It's all in the details.

[Obscure Name]

Go Torres!

[Obscure Name]

Noooooooooooooooooooooo.

[njingles3]

Diesel Jones singlehandedly won that race for the Aussies.

[Obscure Name]

Stupid Sweden. Got my hopes up.

[njingles3]

Alright guys make Rowdy go nuts one last time.

[njingles3]

Hansen's going to blow it.

[njingles3]

Coming down to Lezak again.

[Obscure Name]

Woooooooooooooooooooooooo.

[SoxScout]

yay

[njingles3]

He does it!!!

Dominant by Phelps and a great last leg for Lezak again.

[RedOctober3829]

8 for 8 baby!!!!!!!!!!!

8 golds....7 world records.....16 career medals(14 gold)

You will never see something like this ever again.

Edited by RedOctober3829, 16 August 2008 - 10:13 PM.

[Obscure Name]

Can they put him on the basketball team for a game or something so he can get another one?

[njingles3]

Ha! This will be the last time Ravens fans have anything to celebrate for awhile.

[Ananti]

8 for 8 baby!!!!!!!!!!!

8 golds....7 world records.....16 career medals(14 gold)

You will never see something like this ever again.

Probably not, even for a swimmer as dominant as Phelps, he still needed some really good brakes to pull this off (the .01 second win, the amazing Lezak comeback, etc).

[Greg29fan]

It was truly an honor to watch Michael Phelps swim in the 2008 Olympics, it's a moment I won't ever forget. I really hope he will swim again in 4 years in London.

[SoxScout]

wrong thread, shit

Edited by SoxScout, 16 August 2008 - 10:39 PM.

[shane88888]

Hansen's going to blow it.

Breaststrokers are the drummers of the swimming world, notable for flakiness and prone to spontaneous combustion.

They are never to be trusted.

[Beomoose]

As a former (endurance) swimmer, much awe and amazement do I have for the swimming GOD that is Phelps. WTG, man, WTG!!!!!!!!

[SydneySox]

I thought for sure your man Lezak was going to blow that race.

Phelps carried those guys on his huge, waxed back.

[ent5]

Phelps was phenomenal, kudos to him, truly amazing accomplishment..
but..I was irritated by the way the race was called though, one of the announcers said the following about Lezak :"Lezak won't let Phelps down", I bet that Lezak didn't want to let his country, him self, and ALL his team mates down in that order. I understand that Phelps was the focal point, but this was a team effort with three other great athletes who had an essential role in securing a medal for the US first, then to Phelps.

[Fred not Lynn]

Phelps was phenomenal, kudos to him, truly amazing accomplishment..
but..I was irritated by the way the race was called though, one of the announcers said the following about Lezak :"Lezak won't let Phelps down", I bet that Lezak didn't want to let his country, him self, and ALL his team mates down in that order. I understand that Phelps was the focal point, but this was a team effort with three other great athletes who had an essential role in securing a medal for the US first, then to Phelps.

Nice idealism, but what he was really swimming for was to not be, "That douchebag who cost Phelps his 8th".

[johnmd20]

Nice idealism, but what he was really swimming for was to not be, "That douchebag who cost Phelps his 8th".

Yeah, but he is the only reason Phelps won his 2nd, so it would have been a push for Lezak. But he never came close to giving up the lead, he was the unsung hero of the olympic swimming team. No Lezak, no record for Phelpsy boy.

[Fred not Lynn]

Yeah, but he is the only reason Phelps won his 2nd, so it would have been a push for Lezak.

That was last week. No one remembers that anymore.

[pdaj]

Nice idealism, but what he was really swimming for was to not be, "That douchebag who cost Phelps his 8th".

I sort of agree - but I think in Lezak's case, it's a bit different. The French were blazin' in the race! Noone who follows Olympic swimming would have blinked an eye if the Americans had lost. And noone, certainly, would have blamed Lezak. Still, he managed to make the swim of of his life, as well as the entire '08 Olympics. He's the one swimmer that won't be lost in the Phelps' love-fest. Without him, Phelps falls one short.

Unsung hero, indeed.

[LateRally]

Nice idealism, but what he was really swimming for was to not be, "That douchebag who cost Phelps his 8th".

But I tend to agree with the other guy that for the athletes themselves, they have a greater purpose in swimming than simply avoiding being the "douche that cost Phelps."

Having said that, this has nothing to do with what the announcers were saying. Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gaines are not getting in Lezak's face and telling him "don't blow this." They are speaking to the American public watching the broadcast. And most of us absolutely were tuning in to watch Phelps make history.

[sachmoney]

Phelps is writing a book

NEW YORK - Olympic superstar Michael Phelps will write a book telling the story behind his historic eight gold medal swims just in time for the holiday season, Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Friday.
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In "Built to Succeed," Phelps will also cover his philosophy on training and competition, as well as his life being raised by a single mother and coping with an attention-deficit disorder, the publisher said.

The book is scheduled to be released in December.

Phelps, 23, became the winningest Olympian ever at this summer's Beijing games, winning eight golds to add to six previous Olympic first-place victories. He holds seven world records.

[bsartist618]

Is there anyone who didn't see that coming?

[DegenerateSoxFan]

I wonder he "writes it with."

[njingles3]

"Coping with ADD." Please. His mom threw him in a pool to tire him out and shut him up and the rest is history.

Edited by njingles3, 22 August 2008 - 12:43 PM.

[Wingack]

Wife and I had nothing to do today so we went to the Michael Phelps parade in Towson MD. Katie Hoff was also there as was some other MD Olympians, she is from Towson too. 30-40k showed up for the thing. It was actually pretty cool. They are now having a big ceremony at Fort McHenry for them/him.

That punk Carmelo Anthony didn't show up though.

Edited by Wingack, 04 October 2008 - 06:17 PM.

[The Belly Itcher]

Can't wait for the next Olympics. I'm looking forward to the US developing a jet-pack that functions underwater. They should just get rid of the swimmers altogether and make it a race among the country's fastest swimming suits.

[Rusty13]