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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 184311" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Australia won the women's relay in record time. It gives one of our female swimmers a third gold medal at one Olympics, which equals the Australian record for a single female competitor.</p><p></p><p>I didn't see the race or the actual results so I can't tell you who came in second or third.</p><p></p><p>We've all been amazed by Michael Phelps. The Aussie media and Aussie swimmers are all talking about him too. I gather he's a decent bloke as well.</p><p></p><p>If your local girl didn't make it - it's still no shame to her because the bar has been raised so high at these games, for male and female swimmers. Just being selected to go to the games is an honour. Someone was saying on Aussie TV tonight, about the swimming - the people who qualified for one of the finals ALL had to swim faster than the winning time at a recent race.</p><p></p><p>We've had a few stories about athletes doing extraordinary things. One of our cyclists, Cadel Evans, came to the Olympics from Tour de France. He got injured fairly spectacularly at the Tour, it was looking like he'd have to drop out of the Olympics but decided to push himself. Apparently he did the road race time trial or something, with a torn cruciate ligament or something nasty - it would have put a footballer out of action, but because he was pedalling a bike he was able to keep going. He was a fraction of a second outside medal-winning time. He reckoned he would have made better time if it wasn't for the torn ligament. Ya think?</p><p></p><p>And apparently our swimmer Grant Hackett (captain of the Aussie swim team) is aiming for a third Gold in the same event at consecutive Olympics. He won the event in Athens despite having been struggling with pneumonia - they found out afterwards, he had won despite having swum with a partially collapsed lung!</p><p></p><p>I reckon you could sole your boots on the guts of some of these competitors...</p><p></p><p>Australia doesn't have a monopoly on this, I'm sure there are similar stories from all other countries. It's just that these are the ones I heard on the Aussie media.</p><p></p><p>The next few days are going to be really exciting, to see how it all pans out in the swimming. Whoever wins, it is going to be a nailbiting time!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 184311, member: 1991"] Australia won the women's relay in record time. It gives one of our female swimmers a third gold medal at one Olympics, which equals the Australian record for a single female competitor. I didn't see the race or the actual results so I can't tell you who came in second or third. We've all been amazed by Michael Phelps. The Aussie media and Aussie swimmers are all talking about him too. I gather he's a decent bloke as well. If your local girl didn't make it - it's still no shame to her because the bar has been raised so high at these games, for male and female swimmers. Just being selected to go to the games is an honour. Someone was saying on Aussie TV tonight, about the swimming - the people who qualified for one of the finals ALL had to swim faster than the winning time at a recent race. We've had a few stories about athletes doing extraordinary things. One of our cyclists, Cadel Evans, came to the Olympics from Tour de France. He got injured fairly spectacularly at the Tour, it was looking like he'd have to drop out of the Olympics but decided to push himself. Apparently he did the road race time trial or something, with a torn cruciate ligament or something nasty - it would have put a footballer out of action, but because he was pedalling a bike he was able to keep going. He was a fraction of a second outside medal-winning time. He reckoned he would have made better time if it wasn't for the torn ligament. Ya think? And apparently our swimmer Grant Hackett (captain of the Aussie swim team) is aiming for a third Gold in the same event at consecutive Olympics. He won the event in Athens despite having been struggling with pneumonia - they found out afterwards, he had won despite having swum with a partially collapsed lung! I reckon you could sole your boots on the guts of some of these competitors... Australia doesn't have a monopoly on this, I'm sure there are similar stories from all other countries. It's just that these are the ones I heard on the Aussie media. The next few days are going to be really exciting, to see how it all pans out in the swimming. Whoever wins, it is going to be a nailbiting time! Marg [/QUOTE]
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