There are six things that completely amazed me so far...
1. How this made anything possible
2. How Jason Lezak realized he was swimming for so much more than this
3. How beauty overcame strength just this once for Nastia Liukin
4. How Liu Xiang knew that he had to at least try this
5. How Usian Bolt was able to look around before this was over
6. How this answered everything
If you haven't seen all of these, you should. Then again, you probably did.
3 comments:
this was such a blog post
I watched all of those live except for the freestyle relay, actually, even though I'm supposed to be the giant Phelps fan...
I was thinking of you the whole time. Even though of course I loved watching every hundredth of a second of it, and I stayed up way past my bedtime watching all of the women's gymnastics medals alone, and all but that one Phelps race, and all of Dara Torres' races, and I was watching them because I was completely entranced and involved and the sensation of everything completely lifted all of me, and enveloped me in this superhuman stuff of legend... I was kind of watching them because I thought you would be watching them too.
I moved to DC. I don't have a home, but tomorrow is the first day of my job. I feel completely isolated and totally alone. And I deserve this feeling.
This was the bloggiest blog post ever in this blog. But also absolutely true to yourself.
No but seriously, were you watching the women's marathon? Because it was the opposite of close, but that woman, I kept thinking she'd collapse, or that she couldn't possibly maintain that lead, but seriously, WHAT?
Liu Xiang was heartbreaking. And during the marathon.
I also have really enjoyed watching Rogers & Dalhausser, because Dalhausser is so tall, and because they keep playing short teams, and he hates blocking short teams because they play on a lower plain than he does, an he has so much trouble. The little guys keep kicking his ass, but Rogers sticks with him anyway, and wins, which I like a lot.
It seems so cruel that our friendship could explode when we both need each other so much, and then on top of that during the Olympics, when beyond needing each other, we would simply have so relished being good now. Saying that our friendship is exploding seems really passive on my part, but any way that I could describe it, taking sufficient effort to convey my responsibility for said explosion, seems so melodramatic that it detracts from how sincerely I mean it.
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