 24 August 2008
It's 10:37 PM already.Olympics is over. D: Awww, so sad. Kudos to all athletes who gave their best and all. :D Some outstanding teams and athletes: USAIN BOLT: THE STAR OF OLYMPICS ATHELETICS SHOW   Usain Bolt of Jamaica was the shining star of 10 days of Athletics competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games that produced five world records and 16 Olympic records.Bolt arrived at the Games having lowered the 100m world record to 9.72 in May. He did not disappoint, winning both the 100m and 200m in astonishing world record runs of 9.69 and 19.30. TABLE TENNIS TEAM SINGAPORE: MEDAL IN 48 YEARS      Singapore made history by winning Korea in the Table Tennis and entering into Olympic Final! Kudos to the Singapore Table Tennis Team, especially Feng Tianwei, who has done us proud! Singapore ended its 48-year Olympic medal drought here Friday after beating the Republic of Korea 3-2 in the semifinal of the Women's Team Table Tennis tournament at the Beijing Olympic Games. PHELPS TAKES GREATEST OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL SWAG EVER     Phelps passes Spitz with another world record in medley relay Michael Phelps owned the pool at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with an astonishing eight gold medal performance. As if that weren't enough, all but his 100m Butterfly victory were accompanied by a world record. Along the way, he broke a host of other records, including surpassing Mark Spitz's Munich 1972 Olympic Games effort of seven gold medals at a single summer Olympic Games. Many had said that was impossible. Phelps began his assault on the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games with a bang, winning the Men's 400m Individual Medley on day two in a world record time of 4:03.84, slicing 1.41 seconds off the old mark. Hungary's Laszlo Cseh collected the silver medal and American Ryan Lochte won the bronze medal. His second gold was in the 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay. His tilt at history almost ended when Frenchman Alain Bernard turned at the 50 meter mark on the final leg. Thirty-two-year-old American Jason Lezak was a body length behind the flying Bernard and it looked as though Phelps, who had swum the lead-off leg, and his team would have to settle for silver. Lezak had other plans and produced one of the most stunning final 50m splits ever, a lightning quick 46.06, to overpower the Frenchman on the wall by 0.08 seconds and keep Phelps' dream of eight golds alive. France collected the silver medal and Australia the bronze. Phelps' third gold came in the Men's 200m Freestyle final on day four, in which he broke the world record by nearly one second with a time of 1:42.96. Park Taehwan of the Republic of Korea won the silver medal and Peter Vanderkay of the United States the bronze. Victory in the Men's 200m Butterfly final on day five took Phelps' gold medal tally to four and gave him another world record - 1:52.03 in this, his pet event. Cseh had another great swim to finish with the silver medal and Matsuda Takeshi of Japan took the bronze. The Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay, also on day five, was next for Phelps. His team's world record of 6:58.56 broke the magical seven-minute barrier and netted Phelps' fifth gold. Russia won the silver medal and Australia bronze. Phelps' then won gold in the Men's 200m Individual Medley on day seven, setting a world record by 0.57 seconds. Cseh took silver and Lochte, the bronze. As expected, the Men's 100m Butterfly on day eight provided Phelps with his tightest race, but the challenge didn't come from the man expected, American Ian Crocker. Little-known Milorad Cavic of Serbia turned at the 50m in front of Phelps and 0.09 seconds under the world record split. Phelps dug deep to touch out Cavic on the wall by 0.01 seconds to keep the dream alive. Phelps' final and eighth gold medal, which launched him into the Olympic stratosphere, came with a comfortable win in the Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay on day nine. Australia challenged momentarily but the US relegated them to silver. Japan took the bronze. PHELPS MADE THE IMPOSSIBLE, POSSIBLE.      BASKETBALL MEN USA VS SPAIN USA WON!!! OMG YAY. :D It was so exciting watching two really good teams playing against each other for Gold. Their scores were always so close and there was once Spain almost overtook USA (I think?) Kobe Bryant and Lebron James were the stars of the match cos they shot sooo many goals, esp their 3-pointers omg IMBA. In the preliminary round Spain lost to USA 119-82 and this time their scores were 118-107 hmm hahah, Spain is slightly better this time. :D In the end, both teams were roughly even in terms of assists, fouls and turnovers, with Spain grabbing five more rebounds and the US team shooting a higher percentage from the field. The United States had 27 points from free throws and shot 73 percent from the line, while Spain managed to outscore the high-flying dunkers by six points in the paint. The teams held each other to a highest scoring run of 9-0. USA PWNS BASKETBALL HAHAHA. :D AND CHINA WON 100 OLYMPIC MEDALS ALTOGETHER, 51 GOLD, 21 SILVER, 28 BRONZE. :D The glory of Olympics. :D With love, Me |
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