Chillable Hours

The Olympics and The Race

If you are like the crew here at Chillable Hours, you have likely become completely obsessed with the Olympics for the last few days. While we fully expected to be interested in seeing if Dara Torres could still win at 40 and watching the USA gymnastics teams compete for gold, we never expected to be entranced by semifinal action in men’s single badminton. There is just something about the Olympics that brings everyone around their television.

One moment that will surely live on for many Olympic cycles to come is last night’s men’s 4×100 freestyle relay. The French were favored and Michael Phelps needed a victory to keep alive any hope of winning 8 gold medals. To make it even more interesting, the French swimmer who would swim the fourth and final leg of the relay had done some pretty serious trash talking before the race - saying that the French would “crush” the USA relay team. Well….the same French swimmer had a full body-length lead when he jumped in the pool to swim the final leg of the relay last night and complete France’s “crushing” of the US team. Let’s just say it didn’t quite turn out the way he wanted.

As we use to say back home - “Don’t let your mouth write checks that your ass can’t cash.”

Well done guys, well done.

August 11th, 2008 Posted by admin | Clip of the Week | 2 comments