Wow. Just wow. Phelps matched Spitz's record in the most exciting way possible! 1/100 of a second! The smallest margin there is. Gotta love it. His mom's reaction was pretty hilarious, but I also got a kick out of the faces on the people sitting in front of her. Later, Costas did an interview with him and Spitz, and Spitz really laid on the compliments. It was pretty cool. Phelps really is a great role model for the young 'uns. Side note: while NBC showed the clip of him winning again before ending the coverage session, they played "In Your Eyes" as the background music. Woo! Go Peter Gabriel!
In other news...
Kobe Bryant really moved up in my book after I watching an interview with him. He's been more of team player recently and he's not afraid to be patriotic. He's multilingual, doing interviews with people from other countries, and he seems like an all-around cool guy. I previously had the impression that he was kind of a jerk, and from watching him play with the Lakers he seemed somewhat of a ball hog. He's all right, though.
I can't wait to see Dara Torres in the 50m freestyle final tomorrow. She won her semi tonight, and it's so funny that she's twice as old as most of the others. She showed some great sportsmanship before the race when a Swedish girl had trouble with her suit, so she let the people in charge know so they could wait on her. So she kind of IS like a mom to all of 'em! It'd be really awesome for her to get her first individual gold, after 10 career medals, at 41 years old.
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