Day    3    September    17,    2000

What is the average rainfall of the Amazon basin?- international reporters still asking basketball players why baskets are 2 points

Hannah Storm strike- NBA players talked about sampling kangaroo meat, Hannah said lets put a skippy on the barbie

In yo' face ads- Body bags being stacked around cigarette company offices sponsored by truth (who?), ran many times in a short period

Aerodynamic- Swimmer Stacina Stilts (USA) suffers from a disease that prevents her from growing hair, perfect for the pool

Ashley tidbit- Describing the huge meal hall in the Olympic Village, most athletes come here hungry, some come from Hungary

Rowdy Gaines gold- describing a Russian swimmer's stroke as "Popovish" referring to her legendary countryman Aleksandr Popov

MSNBC logon promo during boxing, known as Boxer Shorts

My favorite name for an event- Womens Breaststroke

Children of a Lesser God- South African Swimmer Terrence Parkin is deaf, which isn't much of a disadvantage in the water (Marlee Matlin took William Hurt underwater in the movie in case you didn't see it)

Buena Vista award for the day- the re-creation of Captain Cook's Endeavor

Short but sweet- Coke's Images of the Games montage

Homerian epic- Ernie Johnson comparing Turkish weightlifter Naim Sulamoglu "Pocket Hercules" failure to his namesake's fiery death.

More Gaines Gold- On Ian Thorpe, He seems so perfect, I'm looking for anything to criticize him on

Opera House Opera presented by GM Olympic Moments was good enough for PBS

Womens Gymnastics memory- who brought gymnastics to the glamour spot it has in America? Many would say Nadia in 1976, but it really started 4 years earlier with Olga Korbut. She wasn't best in the world but she did things no one had ever seen thanks to ABC.

Nickname of the day- Aussie swimmer "Lethal" Leisel Jones

Lookalikes - British Rowing legend Steve Redgrave and Phil Collins

Why Yanks should love Aussies - Tom Brokow's piece about Reginald Evans the man who saved PT 109's survivors including future President JFK, talk about lump in the throat