On to Track and Field

Well, I'm glad the swimming is finally over at the Olympics.  And I have to say I am over Michael Phelps already. 

He certainly has achieved a great deal for which he deserves praise, but does winning more medals than anybody else in history make him "the greatest Olympian of all time"?  I don't know.  If he was a wrestler, he would be able to compete for only one medal by competing in just one event -- wrestling in his weight class, period.  He just happens to be good at a sport that has lots of events he can enter.  The strokes and the distances are different, but swimming is swimming.  And since the Olympics no longer require participants to be amateurs, he has been able to earn money from his swimming (or, more accurately, his endorsements), giving him the time and the wherewithal to train for three Olympics.  Would he have come back after the 2004 Games if he had had to get a job?

All right, I'm done griping about that.  Congratulations to him.  Now let's get on with the rest of it.

Day 8 Quote of the Day (Serena Williams, on the American flag falling to the ground whilst being hoisted during the medal ceremony where she received the gold for women's tennis):  "It was probably flying to come hug me because it was so happy."

Oh, puke.