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Guilty giggles - Bill Walton's interview with Beach Volleyballers Holly McPeak and Missy May. Their heads reach just barely above his stomach

TechnoCool- Each country's flag magically appears at the beginning of a swimming race. I've seen the P.I.V. used in baseball for advertising, but never at the Olympics   before.

Good Old(1999) Commercial- Bud Light, store clerk asks for ID, you might make a 35 year-old's day.

More Nike Bad Taste - Lance Armstrong resuscitates a circus elephant.

Wouldn't want to be him #2- Bud Light's human cannonball shot straight at an elephant's rear

Apt nicknames- Swimmer Ian "Thorpedo" Thorpe (AUS) and Weightlifter Halil Mutlu (Turkey) "Little Dynamo".

What did she say?- Triathlete Michellie Jones (AUS) lives in Carlsbad CA, but retains a strong Aussie accent, so you need to concentrate to understand her

Bad choice of words - Al Trautwig was saying something about an International Buffet while the camera was showing the triathlete's butts

Little Dynamo indeed - Mutlu weighs 123 lb. His Clean & Jerk lift was 369 lb (3X his weight)

Awww commercial - Chevy's tiny hockey players

Why I love watching the Olympics- the profile of Ian Thorpe and the bond with the very ill Michael Williams

Dan Hicks quip- while showing Thorpe's parents, "there are the Senior Thorpedoes"

Lump in throat commercial- IBM's Senegal basketball team

Best re-creation- Budweiser 1904 St. Louis Olympics events such as Rope Climbing and Jumping thru a barrel

Best 5 minute tease for tomorrow night - Womens Gymnastics

Scariest Russian of the Day- Gymnast Aleksei Nemov. He may be small but that intense stare can melt dry ice (Does dry ice melt?)

Tim Dagget nugget- describing Nemov's floor exercise - "You have to strain your eyes to find a deduction and if you think you see one, you're crazy."

Aussies love Yanks - Imagine American Swimmer Matt Biondi having a beach in Sydney named after him. Oh wait! It's B-O-N-D-I Beach. Never mind...

Most exciting moments - The Mens 4 x 100 Swimming Relay

Big Mouth Award- For the 2nd straight Olympics, Gary Hall jr can't back up his trash talk.

Is NBC short on hosts? Why is Bob Costas slumming on the late night show?

Change is good- Like the new rally scoring in volleyball, no more side outs

Women's Volleyball Memory- 1984, I could have sworn that the late Flo Hyman's (USA) first name was Six Foot Five

Hot and Cold award to Chris Witty - attempting to be the 1st American to win medals in both the Winter (Speed Skating) and Summer (Cycling) Games

Buena Vista award - Ahmad Rashad on top of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

We like to remind you that Sydney is 15 hours ahead of you on the East Coast and 18 hours ahead if you are on the West Coast. To present the Games at a more convenient time for you, eerything you see is taped. - paraphrasing NBC hosts opening script.