Michael Phelps Who?
Typing this just moments after Phelps' won his record eighth gold medal, the day's biggest story had already happened about 10 hours earlier.
Usain Bolt came, he saw, he conquered. He set a new world record.
Running in just his eighth ever 100-meter final, the Jamaican turned the track at the Bird's Nest his personal play-pen. Nothing else could explain how easily he toyed with his competition.
A 9.92 in the preliminary heat, despite putting on the breaks about 60 meters into the race. 9.85 in the semifinal. Both times run rather easily, showing that Bolt still had something left in the tank.
But damn!Bolt won the gold medal in a new world record 9.69 seconds and he could have gone faster. The World's Fastest Man started cooling down with about 15 meters still to go, leaving some wondering what the new record could really have been. Silver medalist Richard Thompson threw out 9.54 seconds.
And to think Bolt is by nature a 200-meter runner. The 6'5" wunderkind only started running the 100 as a speed workout. When he started breaking records, he knew he had something.
Now the whole world knows he is something else.
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I watched the first quarter of the Spain-US men's basketball game this morning. That's all I needed to see. From the get-go you could see that the Redeem Team was on a mission and five Spaniards weren't going to get in there way. But don't take too much from this game. The squads know they'll see each other later on (hint: in the gold medal game) and probably didn't want to give up too many secrets.
Another disappointing Olympic outing for Paula Radcliffe. Despite holding the world record in the marathon and being world renowned, the British runner does not have any Olympic golds to her profile. In Athens she dropped out during the race and this year was almost the same case. She continued running after taking a quick break but was nowhere near the medal stage.
Paging Asafa Powell. World records are great, Olympic medals are better.
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