[optormtix]

how ironic is it that you guys want the French to STFU!



you guys wrote the book on braggadocio........

I'm glad the French (Bernard) said what was said.

Instant fuel/inspiration for Team USA.

[joOEMcheapSOFTWARE]

That bottom pic tells it all. I loved Phelps' face when he looked up at the clock before he yelled - just to make sure.

His leg was bouncing so hard when he was yelling for Jason to dig in those final seconds.

[gactanync]

how ironic is it that you guys want the French to STFU!



you guys wrote the book on braggadocio........

It's isn't bragging when you back it up.


WE weren't the ones boasting. The French team was. They didn't back it up.

[Nmoitmzr]

sand, you are gonna have to go over to thepartisanpatriot.com to talk about that stuff.

[Signabeademia]

sand, you are gonna have to go over to thepartisanpatriot.com to talk about that stuff.

I know Ill....i just get really pissed off when people downplay whet this Country has done for the french!....last i speak of it!



That race was absolutley thrilling.i was yelling my ass off.and than to see the look on the french face made it all that much better.

Viva Le USA!!!!

[SkatrySkith]

sounds like a top 10 of All-Time American Moment....

[Info-phone]

you make fun of the French for arrogance?


LOL.


also read some history books.

[c2siOlIk]

sounds like a top 10 of All-Time American Moment....

Nah....We beat a Cockey French team and nothing more,not even a top 100 moment.....

[berdyanskdotsu]

also read some history books.

Did,your point?

[gernica]

well if ya did you would know what was going on on the Eastern Front.....



doesn't matter I guess since it was the Russians.



shame on you.

[blackjackiisre]

anywhoo Congrats to the US Swimming Team....

[bebeacc]

Having been involved in swimming for about 25 years now from age group to HS, college, national events and now master's swimming, I've never seen a relay like that. I've never seen someone at this level get run down like that. It just doesn't happen. If you have at least 1/2 a body length with 50m to go in that short of a race, you don't lose.

That relay was the most amazing race I've ever seen.

I really don't have the words to explain it.

That was the Red Sox comeback on the Yankees in the 2004 playoffs, shrunk down into about 25 seconds.

Absolutely unbelieveable.

Ummm...It happened in the women's race just before that...Hoff blew an entire body length lead in the last 50...That's twice in like 20 minutes...

[Jerwittdergut]

Ummm...It happened in the women's race just before that...Hoff blew an entire body length lead in the last 50...That's twice in like 20 minutes...

read above: "short race"

you are comparing a 100m race to a 400m race? It happens in the 400m, 800m and 1500m all the time. But this was a sprint.

Nobody should get run down in a 100m race, with a .8 second lead, nobody.

Katie Hoff blew a body length lead because she ran out of gas, in a 400m race that is not expected, but understandable. Much like the french woman out in lane 8, she had the lead half way through only to finish last...6 seconds behind the 7th place finisher.

You are comparing apples and oranges.

[chadnezzrr]

Russians helped also.......

Yeah, and for about 100 years any Russian who thought they were hot shit learned French.

I'm not sure what that means in regards to this discussion, except that for about 100 years the upper class of Russia all aspired to be douchebags.

[Nopayof]

well if ya did you would know what was going on on the Eastern Front.....



doesn't matter I guess since it was the Russians.



shame on you.

German miscalculations and stupidity was what was going on on the Eastern front.

The Russians were getting annihilated until the Germans got greedy and spread too far too fast to try to hit the oil fields in SW Russia.

EDIT: The Caucasus oil fields, to be exact. Because of the manpower foolishly assigned there and the necessary expansion of their lines the Germans left themselves badly over-extended and ripe to be pushed back by the vast numerical superiority of the Red Army... which was numerically superior in large part because the Japanese were dealing more with Pacific Islands and the US than Eastern Russia.

[Dreqsqse]

sounds like a top 10 of All-Time American Moment....

top 10 olympic moment.

[iDzcs7TU]

Couldn't stay awake to see it but am watching the replay now at http://www.nbcolympics.com/swimming/index.html

Does anyone else have a link to this race? The link above requires some sort of plug-in and I can't download/install things at work.

[ssyyyrruho]

Does anyone else have a link to this race? The link above requires some sort of plug-in and I can't download/install things at work.

This is a terrible copy of the very end of the race...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPb8Osw6vQY

I have the same problem with the plug-in at work.

EDIT: I think this is the whole thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYnlW-CzIx4

[Elissetecausa]

Yeah, and for about 100 years any Russian who thought they were hot shit learned French.

I'm not sure what that means in regards to this discussion, except that for about 100 years the upper class of Russia all aspired to be douchebags.

I was just responding to a fella who said something about the Russians not coming under heavy fire on the Beaches of Normandy......they got pummelled on the Eastern Front and paid bigger than any country in WW2.


Germans got greedy and also the Russian winter (big time winter) sure as hell helped them.

Make no mistake they paid a massive price in terms of the dead.

[brandiweb]

Does anyone else have a link to this race? The link above requires some sort of plug-in and I can't download/install things at work.

I think you can run it without Silverlight (I think that is what it was called).