Swimming

The swimming hasn't been terribly exciting until last night. Things were pretty much going as expected and the races weren't all that close. However, the final when Katie Hoff missed gold by like 8 hundreths of a second was great. I didn't think she was going to come that close and while I felt bad for her missing it by that little bit. All those close calls though are going to make her first gold all the more sweeter, should she actually get it.

The mens 4x100m relay was crazy. I hope Jason Lezak continues to get attention for that final leg and people aren't just heaping all the attention on Phelps. Phelps swam a rather pittiful first leg and he deserves very little of the credit for that win.

It was disappointing that Dara Torres couldn't close the gap in the women's 4x100m realy but, the fact that she came so close is proof of how great a swimmer she is at 41. I'm still trying to figure out what happened to Natalie Coughlin in that lead off leg she wasn't quite herself.

As for Natalie she's going to have to swim the race of her life tonight if she's to repeat as the gold medalist in the 100 backstroke. That is going to be one hell of a race. And she is right on track to play the role of spoiler in the 200m idividual medley.