the olympics this year.

and yeah, loving michael phelps.

too bad us west coasters don’t get his 8th race tomorrow night live. (stupid NBC)

the second place finisher was Milorad Cavic of serbia (also california born)

the funniest thing about china is watching events with nobody in the damn stands – softball and baseball have been EMPTY … they got a BILLION people and want to show off their dustbowl shitpile of a country in gun only and they cannot bus in folks to an afternoon softball game. Damn, at least call fidel castro for some pointers.

getting there hands on kobe

WoW, the colors…….. i had flashbacks

NBC keeps on trying to catch Phelps crying after he wins. He never does, but what a fierce competitor. (almost did cry on this one though) You know who could use him? The Rangers pitching staff.

let me know, i’d love to chat. i’m sick of espn bullshit and blogger nonsense. the one sport i know more about baseball than is SWIMMING so let me know asap. raced against a lot of the guys on the us squad this year.

Massive Massive finish. I thought he was done.

Bravo, Phelps.

Or beach volleyball. Or archery. Or badminton. Or diving. Or synchronized anything. Or gymnastics. Or handball, shooting, water polo, weightlifting, or 15 of the other dumb “sports” in the Olympics.

I’m not discounting the skill or the dedication of the athletes, just the games in general. I know I could never swim that fast, or shoot a gun that accurately, or do anything with a group of ten other people in swim caps, but it’s just not important in my mind. At all.

With the fall of the USSR, the Olympics became irrelevant in my mind.

And besides, we’ll find out all the athletes are juicing. Once they invented PED’s, they became de rigueur, and always will be.

zzzzzzzzzzzz…………

That race was amazing last night. The Croatian had that race won, and he was in fact better for 99.9% of that race.

It is a credit to the unbelieveable skill of Michael Phelps that he won. What a competitor! The United States can be proud of his accomplishements. I know I am.

… did you peeps see that son of a gun run???? !!! 9.69, awesome.

If the put him in to pinch run in all 162 GAMES.

because you witnessed the greatest feat in the history of athletics. yeah, i said it.

for chasing down the Frenchman in the 100 Free relay.

…don’t you think that Phelps’s mind-boggling achievements might be covering up for a rather disappointing performance from the rest of the US team?

Phelps aside, the US team has scored only 11 golds in the first 9 days… doesn’t seem like a lot.

gotta see it through to the end.

while we may not lead the gold medal category, have the most medals in general.

As an American living in the UK, I have had to come to this humbling conclusion: Our Olympic team is getting the shite kicked out of it in Beijing by a race of binge-drinking soccer hooligans with bad teeth. That’s right, we’re getting bitch-slapped by the Brits.

Like any other country, the British media focus on the performance of their team in the Olympics, and yet another humbling day has gone by in which our team is smoked by the Brits in the gold medals. And I face another humiliating grilling from my British “mates” down the pub wonder how a country as big and powerful as the USA can suck so bad at sport. I have to force this down with a pint of lager, because they’re beating us.

To whit (I’m not a stat-head, but I have to back this up with numbers:

The US has won 26 gold medals (79 total)
The US has 303,111,027 people
This works out to 1 gold medal per 11.6 million people

The UK has won 16 gold medals (33 total)
The UK has 60,776,238 people
This works out to 1 gold medal per 3.7 million people

Ouch. OK, we fare a bit better when looking at total medals: Team USA has won 1 medal for every 3.8 million people, while Team Great Britain has won 1 medal per 1.8 million people. But the raw stats are still ugly, and don’t even think about how much worse it would be if Michael Phelps wasn’t on our team.

I hope NoDakHalo is right, and we’ll surge past the Brits in the running events near the end. But we’re not gonna win the 200meters, I’ll tell you that for sure … Usain Bolt is going to win that.

Woe is me. Get it together Team USA. Because I’m not sure I can stand another day of my lovely English wife merrily whistling a tune while she makes my tea, telling me how many more gold medals the Brits got today.

(Sorry for the long post, yeswecan … and thanks for not piling it on, The Limey, UK Halo, Matt UK and Amy Angel) :)