Golds Goal

Michael Phelps current status: 7 golds down, one more to go.

That's one more gold to get before he reaches Olympic immortality. 36 years to beat the previous record, 7 golds. Now that's just crazy. No, not because he's crazy, but because he's capable of driving the house crazy. Somehow, my father isn't so eager about the 8 golds goal, but my mother is screaming her head off whenever he swims. It takes at least half-an-hour for her to finish her lecture on "how determination and mental strength is so important..................". You're lucky you just got a few seconds of that.

The worst part was when the 100m freestyle relay was going on. The first 3 weren't so fast and America wasn't in the lead. The last man (in America's team), Jason Lezak, was far faaaar behind Alain Bernard (France), world number 1. In 5 seconds......"can't do it" became "can do it" to "done it". All within the freaking span of 5 seconds. He beat the French guy by about eight one hundredth of a second. Never-say-die team spirit.

Lezak, the oldest man on the U.S. swimming team at 32, was nearly a body length behind the massive Alain Bernard of France as they made the final turn, but the American hugged the lane rope, drafting off the Frenchman and stunningly overtaking him on the very last stroke.

The Americans destroyed the world record their "B'' team set the previous day in the preliminaries, finishing in 3 minute, 8.24 seconds - nearly 4 seconds below the 15-hour-old mark of 3:12.23.

Actuallly, all top 5 teams went under the world record set by the "B" team.

Well, there's today too.......where Phelps beats some guy named Crocker by 0.01 seconds. That's one of one hundredth of a second.

Apart from that, Wong Miew Choo was out of the games while Lee Chong Wei made it to the finals. And he's playing against world number 1's Lin Dan. And Malaysia's government is giving him 1 million ringgit if he gets gold. Not exactly as good as Mr Phelps who's getting 1 million US DOLLARS.

There's still a million achievements and records to be listed out but I guess I can't be listing out everything, right? Ok, maybe I can but it'll take forever. Well, save my trouble and google them yourself.