Of Olympic Glory

Go where no man has gone before ladies and gentlemen. Phelps with his lanky but muscular frame does exactly that. 8 GOLD MEDALS.

No man since Mark Spitz or Carl Lewis has ever been prolific in the recent times. Though doping is one way to make you nice and famous. Take a look at Marion Jones. Living the high life. Back to something nice. 8 medals 3 of which were team events which would mean that he would have to bitch slap his team mates to work harder if he wanted to achieve his dreams.

By the fifth day he is already crowned as the best Olympian in terms of gold won which now stands at 14 if I’m not wrong. Not content he still goes on to achieve his target amount of gold with the one race with the Serb Cavic in the 100m butterfly where he wins by a hundredth of a second where for the first time a frame by frame recording ad electrical micro timing is used to determine the winner in a swimming event. He even had to swim blindly for 75m out of the 100m freestyle because his goggles were waterlogged and still broke the record

The sad thing was the way he was not allowed to be given his 7th medal by THE Mark Spitz who did this before the time of major sponsorship deals and where being a sportsman was never considered a job and the equipment suck by today’s standards. Worse was for his 8th medal where he was given a special achievement trophy but without any proper ceremony. I do agree with Mark Richmond for the Today at the Games show. They should have brought out a special podium and get all the swimmers there to congratulate him. Maybe even get Jaques Rogge to give it out or even his own mother.

Is this how we want to celebrate our greatest athlete? A guy who actually goes beyond thrash talk and achieves something that can never be taken away from him. Will there be more? Yes. But for the first in recent times must we be so nonchalant about his medal triumphs? I don’t think so.

Kudos to the table tennis team of Singapore for winning the first medal in 48 years and Tao Li for being the fastest swimmer in Asia and the 5th fastest woman in the world for the butterfly.

My take home for these games? Usain Bolt and the world record breaking 100m dash. With a name like Bolt, he’s bound to be on the tracks right? He did this in the new time of 9.69 seconds. He could have actually gone to 9.5 seconds if he wanted to actually. The guy ran with his shoe laces untied on his right show. Even better, he starts slowing down to celebrate at the 90 metre mark. The guy is just awesome. And he breaks the world record doing it. Sheesh.

We have a few more days left for the games of the lifetime