If I’m watching sports at home (which honestly doesn’t happen very often), there are very few things that will actually get me off the couch and cheering. Last night was one of those times. It was unbelievable. Really no other way to describe it.
I’m kind of an Olympic junkie when they are on. I’ve been anticipating the Olympics for at least a year. If the Olympics are on, I will have my TV on watching. I can watch pretty much any sport and still be interested (I’ve sat and watched the marathon…). However, since the Sydney games, I’ve really enjoyed watching the swimming events. Maybe it’s because I’m not a great swimmer. I can swim, but nothing like that. Well, now that I think about it, I’m not great at anything they do at the Olympics because if I was, I’d be an Olympian. But that is beside the point. Point is, I really have taken a liking to watching the swimming events. I think it helps that we have some great swimmers on team USA.
So, back to my point about last night. I didn’t think I was in for anything really incredible when the men’s 4x100 freestyle relay came up. The NBC commentator kept saying that France would win and there was no way that anyone else would come close.
The first 3.75 legs of the race I thought that we would just have to consign ourselves to a silver medal. Lezak, the USA anchor was nearly a full second behind France’s Bernard (the 100m freestyle word record holder) with 50m left in the race.
Then, somewhere, with like 25m before the finish, their fairy godmother waved her little wand and Lezak started to inch up on Bernard. Was this possible? Could he really make up nearly a full body length in that short of time against the World Record holder?
Somehow I’ve made this a long story. I was not only sucked to the edge of my seat, but I was actually coming off the couch. Lezak pulled us to victory… by 8/100 of a second! And not only did we beat… really smash… the world record (set by our own team in the prelims) by 4.99 seconds but 5 teams came in under the world record time.
This is why I love the Olympics!
I’m kind of an Olympic junkie when they are on. I’ve been anticipating the Olympics for at least a year. If the Olympics are on, I will have my TV on watching. I can watch pretty much any sport and still be interested (I’ve sat and watched the marathon…). However, since the Sydney games, I’ve really enjoyed watching the swimming events. Maybe it’s because I’m not a great swimmer. I can swim, but nothing like that. Well, now that I think about it, I’m not great at anything they do at the Olympics because if I was, I’d be an Olympian. But that is beside the point. Point is, I really have taken a liking to watching the swimming events. I think it helps that we have some great swimmers on team USA.
So, back to my point about last night. I didn’t think I was in for anything really incredible when the men’s 4x100 freestyle relay came up. The NBC commentator kept saying that France would win and there was no way that anyone else would come close.
The first 3.75 legs of the race I thought that we would just have to consign ourselves to a silver medal. Lezak, the USA anchor was nearly a full second behind France’s Bernard (the 100m freestyle word record holder) with 50m left in the race.Then, somewhere, with like 25m before the finish, their fairy godmother waved her little wand and Lezak started to inch up on Bernard. Was this possible? Could he really make up nearly a full body length in that short of time against the World Record holder?
Somehow I’ve made this a long story. I was not only sucked to the edge of my seat, but I was actually coming off the couch. Lezak pulled us to victory… by 8/100 of a second! And not only did we beat… really smash… the world record (set by our own team in the prelims) by 4.99 seconds but 5 teams came in under the world record time.
This is why I love the Olympics!
1 comment:
I know exactly like what you're talking about. That was one of the best/most exciting sporting events I have seen. Awesome! Go USA!!
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