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.
I think the French guy made a tactical mistake– he swam too close to the American’s lane, allowing Lezak to get a free ride in his wake for most of the way. I think that’s what allowed him to swim a ridiculous final 25 meters- he had much more energy in the tank that he’s used to. And it wasn’t just that he tends to swim to his right, because he hugged the lane on both laps.
Agree about the Costas interview. Bush was the most lucid I’ve heard him sound in years (admittedly a low standard).
“I felt more educated when I announced after ten minutes that water polo is the dumbest sport in the world.” Jonathan reached the same conclusion about handball. And I feel the same way about fencing. Have you seen those ridiculous silver astronaut suits?
Ditto re: the Chinese gymnasts. Jonathan is currently railing against the subjective nature of gymnastics in general, says “this is not a sport!” (He says the same thing about boxing, ice skating, diving, etc.) Whatever, gymnastics might not be a sport, but those guys and gals have SKILLS.