Bottom Of The Barrel

And it's over for another 4 years...

Today marks the end of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and the beginning of the countdown to London 2012. For the USA, this Olympics marks the 4th consecutive games that we have led the world in metal count with 110. The US also has remained very consistent with 36 gold metals, which is only 1 below the average gold metals they have won over the past 14 Olympics [not including the boycott games of 1984]. Some of my favorite stories from the games were:

- The Redeem Team redeems US Men's Basketball
- Men's gymnastics loose the Hamm brothers and still take a bronze metal in the team event
- Women's Basketball Team makes it four in a row
- Nastia Liukin [individual all around gold, uneven bars silver, balance beam silver] and Shawn Johnson [balance beam gold, individual all around silver, floor exercise silver]
- Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh repeat in Beach Volleyball
- Men's Volleyball gold metal after the coach's father-in-law was murdered the day before competition began
- Last and certainly not least, Michael Phelps wins 8 gold metals, 7 in world record time

In a final tribute to the Olympics, let's take a look back at Phelps being Phelps:



Watch out London, here he comes...

Labels: Olympics

posted by TheWino @ 10:18 PM