the greatest olympian

"He’s not just winning, he’s absolutely destroying everything,"

And so today after my morning lecture at 10, I decided to stay back at Tamaki to study till work starts. Come 2pm and I gave up so I headed over to Zesty's Cafe, hoping TV 1 will be broadcasting the swimming events. To my luck, it did!!

First stop, the Men's 100m Freestyle Semifinal. First semifinal and the world record was broken. But, it only stood there for a few minutes because it was broken again during the second semifinal. Far out man!! These people are crazy!!! So impressive!! Next, it was the Women's 200m Freestyle Finals. Again, another world record being broken, this time, by an Italian.

Following that, the much anticipated event of the day ... The Men's 200m Butterfly, with our very own Kiwi swimmer, Moss Burmester, being in the finals, along with Phelps. You guess it, Phelps won it. And... another freaking world record. He was so close to not breaking it though due to his leaking goggles. Lolx! But yeaa... what impressed me was Burmester's swim. Gutted but still.. hands down for the good swim. He was actually ahead of Phelps during the first 100m but then slowed down in the last 50m and ended up with a 4th placing. *sigh* So close!!

After that, I headed off to work. Come dinner time, I turned on the tv and they had replay of the Men's 200m Freestyle relay. Shit man!!! US won it... by a body length if i'm not mistaken! and ... world record being broken.. AGAIN!! That means... 5 gold medals to Phelps, with 3 more to go to beat Mark Spitz's gold medals record. But yeaa.. just with his 5 gold medals, all breaking world records, he is now the greatest olympian of all times with a record of 11 olympic gold medals in total. Way too impressive. And to think that this fella is only 23 yrs old!! 3 more events to go.. 200m IM, 100m Butterfly, and a relay event. Will he make it? Will he win all 8 golds? At this point, I really think so. I doubted him for the 200m Freestyle since he didn't come first during the semis but during the finals.... man, he was leading by a fair amount. Some machine he is. Setting more world records again? I have a feeling he will. He just doesn't stop... truly amazing!

look at those muscles! those abs!! i want!!!!