-last day of Michael Phelps' swan song. He takes gold in the 4x100 medley relay with Nathan Adrian, Brendan Hansen, and Matt Greivers helping USA win the race. FINA gave him a special award for his achievements in swimming. Although Phelps is not my favorite person in the world, you have to admit that no one has even come close to what he has achieved and it's likely we'll not see another like him for a long, long time. He is truly the Greatest of All Time.
-Serena Williams wins gold in women's tennis singles.
-Oscar Pistorius, a double leg amputee from South Africa, competes with able-bodied runners in the 400 m race and make it into the semi finals coming in second in his heat. I know there's been a lot of controversy about this guy, and I don't know how they draw the line in who can and cannot compete in the Olympics vs the Paraolympics, but I think it's a courageous thing this guy is doing. And if he can beat other full-bodied runners then more power to him. Some say he's at an advantage with his "cheetah blades," because his legs won't fatigue like others, but I've read about the differences in how he has to run, and he can't feel his feet so I don't think he has an advantage. It's very inspirational and what the Olympics is all about.
-Twin brothers Bob and Mike Bryan take gold for USA in men's tennis doubles.
-Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price wins gold in the 100 m women's sprint
day 9
-McKayla Maroney takes silver on vault. She did not stick her second vault and actually sat on the ground. It says something for her score that she still got silver. She is amazing on the vault, too bad she couldn't do one like she did in team competition. It was near perfect. But she's got my respect.
-Oscar Pistorius competes in the semifinals and does not make it to the finals. Another runner asks to exchange bibs because he has respect for Oscar and commends him on what he did. I think it's great that the other runners are on board for what he is doing and not being all snarky about it. They interviewed Oscar after the race and he was so humble, his goal was to run against able-bodied men and make the semis and he made his goal. He was so proud to make his goal and thanked everyone for being supportive of what he was trying to achieve. The entire stadium was cheering him on and I think it was definitely something to remember. He could be on the South African team for the 4x400 relay.
-Usain Bolt takes gold in the 100 m. It was a final that had 3 Jamaicans, 3 USA and 2 others. My dad totally called that Bolt would take gold, get the Olympic Record but not the World Record, Yohan Blake would get silver and an American would get bronze. That's what happened. He ran it in 9.63, not the world record but still pretty darn fast. I'm glad they showed the race a few times because I almost missed what happened.
-Sonya Richards-Ross won gold in the women's 400 m race for Team USA.
-A Brit won silver on the pommel horse, tied for first but dropped to second on the tie breaker. That's too bad, mate.
-Andy Murray wins gold over Roger Federer in a repeat match of this years' Wimbledon with a different ending. The Brits are probably for sure going to go crazy.
-when does BMX start? that would be fun to watch.
-Venus and Serena take gold in women's tennis doubles
-I'm sorry but where the heck did NBC get Ryan Seacrest? He is not a newsman, not at all. He is a host. This is not the same thing. There is a huge difference between what he can do and what Bob Costas does. I'm glad they just relegate him to reading the twitter updates but seriously, he's not a sportscaster. And NBC, if you let Ryan take over from Bob in the future, I will cut you.
A quote from an article in my newspaper today on running: "The world's fastest men leave each foot on the track for about 0.08 seconds. That means they're on the ground for less than four seconds of each race. The rest of the time they're flying." Awesome.
Neeeeed Sleeeeep.
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