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Favorite part of the Beijing Olympics so far?
edbro:
Michael Phelps!
Josh:
Hellz yeah! High five!
40hz:
Sorry folks - to clarifiy:
1. My wife is watching the Olympics (though she has no problem watching Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson, either!).
-Darwin (August 13, 2008, 10:19 AM)
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Um-hmm... Yours too? ;D
Veign:
The swimming has been amazing this year. Phelps sets a world record with his goggles filling up with water - even that can't distract him.
CWuestefeld:
The thing about the swimming that amazes is the world records. Here's a sport that's been essentially unchanged in modern times, but every olympics the athletes are resetting the records.
How is it that athletes are getting so much better? A gold medalist swimmer from, say, 20 years ago couldn't get into the finals today. But it's not that the rules have changed (like basketball and other sports), it's that they're executing the same task better.
What other sports are objectively improving in the same ways? I don't think cycling counts, because this is (at least in significant part) attributable to the technology of the bicycles.
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