While the amount of fuel reserves in his body (from all the carbs that he regularly consumes) is very high, its meaningless without a rapid way to translate that into power. That's where oxygen carrying capacity comes in. I saw that too, and it was rather odd; they replayed the slow motion and I watched his fingers very closely. He didn't slip or miss the ring. His fingers were firmly gripped around the ring and it looked to me like he just let go of it. Timing error? Purposeful? I don't know, but it did seem rather odd. And Mongolia wins their first gold ever (in Judo) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/judo/7560951.stm Ralph
^ RALPH....BUT IF IT WAS PURPOSEFUL....AINT IT A BIT STOOOPID COZ HE INJURED HIS SHOULDER RIGHT..?!... THE OTHER JAPANESE GUY WAS UBBBBER GOOD ESPECIALLY WHEN HE WAS SWINGING ON THE BAR
I agree that if he did it on purpose it would be very stupid. However, if you view the slow motion video, you'll see that his hand was grasped firmly around the ring (thumb, palm, and all fingers were curled around the ring). Then he just let go. So I don't know what to make of it. Then there was the Korean contestant who, after doing a jump, nearly landed off the side edge of the mat. He subsequently fell off completely, but then walked quickly back onto the edge of the mat and stood up straight for a few seconds to kinda make it look normal. Ralph
omg michael phelps won another gold by 1/100th of a second!!!! luckiest son of a bitch ever, nothing's impossible after that lol (check out the replays, unbelievable).
Calvic and his team are going to protest. if he keeps looking at the under water view, he can see Phelps beating him by very little. wonder what's gonna happen.. anyways, his mom's expression was priceless! what a kodak moment. hahaha
^hell i woulda protest cause i couldn't even tell lol...phelps arms were all the way to his hips or something when calvic was finger tips from the win lol. and oh yea no more protest lol...they've accepted it.
The only thing stopping Phelps from winning his 8th Olympic Gold could potentially be the Australian team in the 4x100 metre medley. I was just watching the Bloopers so far, the funniest (yet heartbreaking) one to watch was the weighlifter who couldn't lift the weights-his hand couldn't get a grip on it/they slipped off.
lol, i was watching it, lol 8th gold medal, then they had those Replays of um 1972, when that Mark guy won 7medals in swimming and he was a legend, lol so Phelps is the new Legend ,
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/livevideo/#n=cbcsports_ca_7&p=table_tennis&e=mens_team_bronze_playoff_second_round&dt=2008/08/16_09:49%20PM&s=http://authmfile.akamai.com.edgesuite.net/akamai.stream.auth/35018/wm/cbcwm.gen/v001/reflector:17623.js omg...any1 waching HK vs KOR bronze medal match??......i never knew table tennis can be this exciting watchingg
Did anyone see the Jamaican win the 100 M? He shut it down with 20 meters to go and still set a WR O_O
