Shocking observations...

- The Victorian! Are you fucking kidding me!?! It makes the Iron Cross look about as challenging as the missionary position!

- Usain Bolt -- He is so good and so polarizing that the cameras and commentators never left him for many minutes leading up to the 200 meter event, which he is supposedly better at than the 100 meter which he completely destroyed the field in... now that is a scary thought. The best part was about 5 seconds before the gun when a commentator says "Oh by the way the defending Olympic Champion Shawn Crawford is in this heat." Can you say "overshadowed?"

- Women's Discuss -- A US woman... who nobody can even remember her name... wins this event and the commentator here says "This has to be considered as the biggest upset of these games." Ummm... in women's discuss? Okie dokie, if you say so. Have fun convincing the world of that. See... I already forgot.

- Kobe and LeBron on the beach watching Misty May and Kerry Walsh. Yeah... I'm sure they were there for moral support and Volleyball. Hilarious. Can anything look more out of place? Then again, Yao Ming is in the NBA I guess.

- The Trampoline? What the fuck. You know... I wanted to rip it until I saw the routines and then I was like, you know... it's elegant, kept my attention and looked pretty damn challenging. Still, it's pretty lame but for some reason I kept watching it. Maybe in hopes of seeing a disaster. I can't explain it... but since I watched it then it must be pretty cool because I can't watch badminton.

- Russian Women's Pole Vaulter -- Ummm... ridiculously fucking HOT! Not only that but is there really a cooler event? Seriously, she takes a nap on the infield while her competitors all jockey for position in an attempt to get up to her STARTING height. Then they wake her up... she does one vault and not only qualifies but sets the bar above what anyone else can do except the US girl who cleared it. The hot Russian vaults again and it's over in Olympic Record fashion. Oh what the hell, she already wins and then goes out and gets the World Record too. Then back to sleep. That's just awesome. Oh yeah, and she's HOT!

- Women's Softball -- Ok we all know the sport is no longer going to be an Olympic sport because the US Team has never not won Gold and that's bullshit. Listen to this... the US Team has outscored their opponents 53-1 and that run was unearned. They also have 2 no-hitters already. Yeah, that's sick but based on that logic then why doesn't the Olympic committee just ditch the Diving events? Nobody is even close to being in the same league as China. Waaa waaa waaa... let's get rid of diving and for that matter let's just ditch Basketball too.

- Mark Spitz -- I saw him get interviewed on First and Ten on ESPN this morning regarding Phelps. He could not have been more gracious. I was shocked, he seems like a great guy. He said Phelps is better than he was and what he did is far more incredible because of the different number of strokes and events he participated in. Spitz had 13 races in the same amount of time as Phelps 17. He had nothing but praise and humility and really came of like a class act. Good for him.

- Sports Illustrated -- I just saw the new cover with Michael Phelps wearing all 8 of his Gold medals and it looks ridiculous... it looks like a blouse or a dress. They could have done a lot better and more creative job. You'll see. I don't like it... it deserves better. I'm sure Wheaties will be much better.