WOW!

Wow!

I'm soooo glad I ran to the TV when the Missus called last night.

Imagine you're among the best swimmers in the world, racing in the Olympics. Imagine you r 4x100 relay team swims the race of their lives, breaking the world record for this distance. Now imagine that you come out of the water only to find yourself in FIFTH place.

Now, imagine you're the French team. You're generally considered the team to beat, the odds on favorite for the gold. You've been bragging for some time that you're going to crush the Americans. Now imagine that you come out of the water having not only been beaten by 8 1/100ths of a second (barely a fingertip!), but you've also lost the 100m world record distance to that same American.

The Men's 4x100 freestyle relay last night was likely the best race in the history of swimming. Not one, but two world records fell, one of them smashed by 4 seconds and broken by five teams in the race. At the 50m point in the anchor leg, Alain Bernard (Fr) was ahead by nearly a body length. By the end of the race, Jason Lezak (US) had poured on the coals, closed the gap, beaten him by a fingertip, and snagged both the world record 100m time, world record 4x100 relay time and Olympic gold.

Wow!