And He Does It!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here he is....
Hero of the Beijing Olympic Games 2008

And he most definitely deserves that title. 8 Gold Medals!!!! 8!!!!!
And not only gold medals... All except one in world record time!!!! And the one that WASNT in world record time, was an olympic record....
Could this guy be anymore awesome?????
He totally rocks!!!!
ANd he has now officially broken Mark Spitz's record of 7 golds in a single games. And is also the first person to get 14 Olympic golds in his career so far...I don;t think anyone will be breaking THAT record for a while yet... And he's only 23.... Amazing, simply amazing.... I cant get over how amazing he is, an absolute freak of nature...

This is Grant Hackett...

Australian's swim team captain.... 28 years old. Was going for a record as well, to be the first man to win 3 consecutive gold medals in the 1500m freestyle... He missed out by just a second today...

I sat there watching him lead and un-lead lap after lap for 30 laps!!!!

Then felt my heart sink when all of a sudden out of nowhere this Tunisian guy shoots up in lane 6 or 7 and touches the wall a second ahead of Hackett... Poor guy was so so so dejected when he came up, my friend, a great fan of his was so sad she cried...

Disappointing... But then again, he is rather advanced in his years for a swimmer...

Oh well, a silver's ultimately still better than no medal at all, and he DID swim a very good race after all...

Swimming's over... and i guess from this point onwards my olympic fever will probably die down a bit until the next Olympics....

I hope Michael Phelps will be going for 9 golds the next one wakakakak :)