I really should have been sitting on the other side, but my brave, ok, ruthless, Slovakian teammate who did not have a ticket made her (our) way into this, cool area for swimming athletes and coaches. I did not complain... if anyone lives by the Slovak proverb: Kto sa hambi ma prazdne gamby, Mirka Bobkova does :))). We are totally going to try into the gymnastics gym tomorrow (sorry to rub it in Albert and Malaika :)
NOTE: Notice the growing number of pins on my pass/badge. I have a whole lot of cool countries now including Trinidad and Tobago, Singapore, Samoa, and others. Our deputy chief made a big mistake yesterday when he congratulated me on my nameday. I was quick enough to say: "No, dakujem. A ked uz mam tie meniny nedate mi este nejake extra odznaky?" He could not say no and I ended up with 5 extra pins to trade!!!
You can see the Olympic maskots dancing around the pool as athletes finish their warm up....
With a teamate (notice the difference in our biceps-her race is about 26.1 miles shorter than mine :) She is a 110m. hurdler.
Swimmers waiting to start 200m Freestyle. Mike Phelps is in lane 6...
It was increadible to see the lead Phelps had with one last turn to go...
One of the two world records I saw today....
During the men's 200m Freestyle medal ceremony (see the bottom middle of the picture and the big screen on top of it). I wish I had taken a photo two minutes before I took this one. Mike Phelps was actually stretching his hamstrings on the medal podium as they were starting to announce the results. I completely understand he had to focus on keeping lose for the upcoming semifinal, but can you imagine to be so good that you could even think about stretching before receiving your Olympic gold medal???
Before the start of another race...
During the medal ceremony for 100m backstroke in which yet another world record was broken. One also does not see two swimmers finishing in the exact same time to take the third place... (hence the four flags being raised).
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