Beijing Olympics day 3

Another great day, I got to see some men's beach volleyball and the women's water polo match against China. Both teams won. Congrats to the swim team for yet another great night. American's got at least two medals in many of the finals. Michael Phelps got another gold today tying him with four others for most career golds. He also set more world records. That guy is such an amazing swimmer and his body was just built for it. Watching one of his races on one of his turns he gained almost half a body length without any strokes. He will definately be remembered for a long, long time. USA also got repeat gold in both the men's and women's 100 meter backstroke, Aaron Peirsol repeated gold for the men and Natalie Coughlin repeated for the women. Both swam very fast times against hard fields. Another notice of the night was the men's gymnastic team. They had some flubs on their qualifying round and are missing both Paul and Morgan Hamm so they weren't expected to do very well. But the men put in a solid effort and were even leading at one point during rotation. The Chinese are too much to deal with though, they do absurdly difficult stuff and score really high. The men ended up getting bronze but Jonathan Horton was solid on event after event. He proved that he was worthy of the Olympic team. He really turned in an impressive performance for the night.

Aaron Peirsol

Aaron Peirsol in Athens, 2004

Natalie Coughlin

I love the commercials during the Olympics. Companies usually put tons of money into advertising and have really good ones. My favorites are: Visa which has Morgan Freeman narrating about different past Olympic stories, sometimes they make me cry; Nike which has a montage of a bunch of different sports that aren't even in the Olympics but they have people winning medals and falling down during the race, the part that makes me cry is when they show Lance Armstrong curled up in a bed, bald from chemotherapy, and the next image is of Lance on a bike in a yellow jersey leading the Tour de France; and Oreo which has a little red haired girl on a train with her mom, she looks out a window while eating her Oreo and a little Chinese girl is in another train next to her with an Oreo also mimmicking the same actions as the first girl. She waves after eating her Oreo, when she turns to get her mom to look at her new friend the train has pulled away, it's very cute.
New one I found with Jackie Chan and Yao Ming.

I love Bob Costas. He has the coolest job in the world and he is hilarious, just listen to him commentate sometime. He is always making jokes if he can.