Kim. Better than chocolate.: Olympic Update #2

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

I had my first freak-out-throwing-pillows-screaming-so-loud-waking-up-the-neighbors moment of the Olympics.

The US Relay swim team was the underdog. France was the full-out-no-doubt-about-it favorite. Earlier in the day, the French said they were going to crush the American's and that's what they came here for. That statement was passed on to the American team as fuel for the fire, but no body really wanted to step up and refute it because the American's were indeed the underdogs and France was indeed going to take the gold. The whole race it looked that way. Phelps went first and being the super human that he is, put us out in front. After his swim though, it looked like a sure bet that France would take it. The last relay man, Lezak, was a full length behind the French guy on the way home. First of all let me say that big moves do not happen in swimming. If you are a full length behind someone on the way home, you might make up a difference to put you 1/2 a length behind by the end of it, but that's about it. Half way through the pool, Lezak starts to look like he's moving up. Hm. That's cool. Atleast make it a loss by not that much. Then, he starts to move faster. What the butt? THEN, by the very end of the pool (all this happened by just 1/2 a pool) he's neck and neck with the French guy. Exciting! - but still going to get Silver. They touch the wall, and US is immediately thrown down into the #1 spot. That's when the jumping off the couch and the screaming and the throwing of the pillows takes place. Eat your words France.
Also, this continues to give Phelps a chance to take 8 straight gold medals, which I always thought he never had a chance of doing because of the relay.
Also, the US broke the world record during that relay.
/sigh of happiness. I mean, yeah. /sigh

The other high-..no, lowlight of the evening was the disappointing US girls gymnastics semi-finals. They had a terrible terrible showing. Falling off the bars, stepping 29378942374 feet out of bounds, falling on landings... I can only hope that tonight was so bad, they will do amazing the night of the finals.