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Cheers for the Home Team-- Hellas Gold!! Greece wins the Men's Synchronized Diving Competition...Of course the celebration happens after the video tape shuts off...
Stereotypes broken --- Landlocked Switzerland and Ice-cold Norway have Beach Volleyball teams? The Nordic beauties upset the 3rd ranked Swiss team today.
Believe it or not--- they do play defense in Team Handball.
Another Adidas "Impossible is Nothing" commercial spotted...a youngster does an uneven parallel bars routine alongside Nadia in her prime.
Diet Coke Lime? What's next? 7-UP Cola?
USA's Individual Medley champ is 15 year-old Katie Huff. In Atlanta it was 14 year old Amanda Beard... Is it because of short attention spans of teenagers that they are so successful with 4 different strokes?
NBColympics.com links to a Medal Madness Fantasy game. If Egypt wins any medals, I get 50 points. If Bolivia medals, it's 100 points. So far Japan has been my best performer with 138 points.
Indoor Volleyball hitter Tayyiba Haneef (USA) is 6'7''. If Bob Beattie (ABC 1984) was the play-by-play man, you'd think her first name was "Six-foot-seven" a la "Six-foot-five Flo Hyman".
Buena Vista award - "Access Hollywood" Nancy O'Dell with new hairdo standing in front of the night-time Acropolis.
Local News Tease - "Caskets from CostCo after the Olympics"
Soundalikes - Diving commentator Cynthia Potter and GolfChannel instructor Tina Mickelson (Phil's sister). They have they same intonation and inflection in their voices.
THE RACE - Lane 2 Hackett (AUS), Lane 3 Phelps (USA), Lane 4 van den Hoogenbaun (HOL), Lane 5 Thorpe (AUS), Lane 6 Keller (USA)---at 50 meters van den Hoogenbaun led, followed by Thorpe, then Phelps---at 100 meters same order --- at 150 meters, same order --- finish Thorpe Gold, van den Hoogenbaun Silver, Phelps Bronze, Keller 4th, Hackett 5th.
NBC Graphic showed Leisel Jones (AUS) bronze in 100m breast at 2003 Championships. Amanda Beard (USA) silver in 100m breast...A 100 meter breast...boggles the imagination
Passing of the torch - Backstroke master Lenny Krayzelberg (USA) finishing 4th to Gold Medalist Aaron Peirsol (USA). Actually, Krazelberg only finished .03 seconds behind the Silver Medalist.
Costas quip - (after Peirsol's medal ceremony) "...some heads are better suited for an olive leaf than others. Peirsol looks good in profile with an olive leaf...
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