Positive Energy - Olympics highlights, Day 5

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Olympics highlights, Day 5

Top highlight: Kristin Armstrong smashing the field to win the women’s cycling road race. A special shout-out goes to Christine Thorburn, who finished 5th, only 3.2 seconds out of 3rd place - she’s a doctor for my wife Melissa.

Other highlights/notes:

Levi Leipheimer, in the men’s road race, winning the bronze
Kosuke Kitajima, defending his Olympic titles in both breaststroke races
A China sweep of the women’s 200m fly
An impressive 4x200m free relay by the Aussie women

Sort of a lackluster day, actually. Maybe I’m just getting a bit tired (which won’t improve after the USA-Greece basketball game at 5am and the USA women’s first medal-round soccer game at 3 am).

Also, a note on yesterday’s post and the magnificence of what Phelps is doing: the one other feat I can think of that’s possibly comparable (in addition to Jesse Owens’ 4 world records in 45 minutes and Spitz’ 7-gold, 7-world-record performance) is Eric Heiden’s 5 golds & 5 Olympic records at Lake Placid 1980.

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