Given the topic of my posts recently, I guess you can probably tell that, like a large number of Americans and other sports fans in the world, I've been caught up in Olympic fever this week (or more specifically, Phelps fever). As if the 4x100m freestyle relay wasn't exciting enough, the 100m butterfly final last night will probably played be over and over again on any highlight reel for these 2008 Beijing Games, as Michael Phelps tied Mark Spitz's record for most gold medals in one Olympic Games by beating out Milorad Cavic by 0.01 seconds. Conspiracy theories will probably abound for quite some time as to whether the Omega touch sensors were rigged given the fact that Michael Phelps is partially sponsored by the time-keeping company, but it's great to see that the Internet has already been hard at work to debunk such theories. Sports Illustrated has a frame by frame review of the finish, which is pretty incredible to see just how behind Phelps (on the left of the picture) seemed to be at the end:
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Phelps Phan...
Frame by frame review of the broadcasted video from NBC further shows just how close the race was. Amazing!
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I once would take my summer vacations around the Olympics. The Atlanta games in '96 I had the full 2 weeks off and watched everything they showed on the handful of channels carrying it. The 2000 games came perfectly during the 3 months I took off after I left the grocery business. In 2004 I had a cushy tech job where I was on the internet most of the time and was able to read and view the happenings all day long then go home and watch the highlights. In fact, I remember vividly watching the '84 Olympic games in LA at Firecracker Goerge's house while playing with Lego's. I think his brother was watching it more then us, but still it was on. This time around I was ready for some great games. They were in China, a country that fascinates me. There was drama to be had. There was excitement. I have DirectTV so I have almost 20 channels of Olympic coverage, all in HD, 24 hours a day. And then one of my co-workers lost a family member and I was asked to step in and take most of thier hours along with mine. So 3 straight 68 hour weeks later and the most Olympics I've seen is some Football matches while I fall asleep on the couch. I'm most displeased at this point, I can tell you.
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