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- To0pak, on 08/17/2008, -9/+403wow i bet he could run Crysis
- AhrenBa, on 08/17/2008, -3/+277Couldn't they have formatted this a bit better so that it is easier to switch between frames??
- suwoo244, on 08/17/2008, -6/+217he won by |_________| much...
unbelievable. - bigbill780, on 08/17/2008, -6/+193Weird to think that 10 years ago it probably would be undecided.
- djchronz, on 08/16/2008, -6/+158that man is insanely fast
- punkaybbolt, on 08/17/2008, -10/+116And they don't loose by much. These short races...
Three hundredths of a second, two hundredths of a second...
I don't know how they live with that
the rest of their lives.
'Cause they gotta tell the story.
Everyone wants to hear the story.
"Wow! Congratulations! Silver medal!"
"Did you trip? Did you not hear the gun go off? Tell us what happened."
It's a hundredth of a second.
People say: "What was the difference in the margin there?"
Eh, uh, that was it.
I trained, I worked out, I exercised my entire life,
I never had a date, I never had a drink, I never had a beer,
I was doing push-ups since I was fetus, I flew halfway around the world,
everybody I knew in my whole life was there, the gun was shot...
Eh, ooh!
And they always have that photo finish...
That photo finish is always: silver, gold.
This is the whole race.
Gold, silver, bronze.
Dead last.
Greatest guy in the world... never heard of him.
The guy's gotta be thinking:
"If I had a pimple, I would have won!"
-Jerry Seinfeld
http://www.mostlikelytodiealone.com/2008/08/seinfe ... - Jeffler, on 08/17/2008, -3/+86I hope you aren't a stock market investor
- geneticlemon, on 08/17/2008, -1/+79Phelps was smart to take that half-stroke ... risky, but, damn, his instincts were spot on.
- fxu1989, on 08/17/2008, -13/+90Congrats to Phelps on winning his 8th gold medal!!!
Going down in history as the greatest olympian. - Rev0lver, on 08/17/2008, -3/+76Easily one of the most fantastic races I've ever seen. Say what you will about the Olympics or China, but you'd be a fool to deny that this year's events thus far have been among the most memorable ever.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -4/+77The next generation of Navy torpedoes should be named after Phelps.
- roadtripper, on 08/17/2008, -0/+73Phelps was amazing. And what's even more amazing - the number of people who have become "swimming experts" during the last week. At the bar tonight, I couldn't believe the number of resident experts who apparently know all that there is to know about the sport of swimming - even if they've never been in a pool before.
"It's the suit!" "It's the pool!" "It's the genetics!" - inactive, on 08/17/2008, -20/+87Actually he won by 8=====D much.
unbelievable
(I predict this comment will get buried) - Parkerman1700, on 08/17/2008, -6/+68Who else watched every race he was in?
- arjie, on 08/17/2008, -1/+56That metal part is called a ferrule.
/useless fact - huff51, on 08/17/2008, -35/+90fag
- yourgiftsfree, on 08/17/2008, -2/+57If only the server was a fast as Phelps...
- jbbears554, on 08/17/2008, -2/+49actually, he won by l_______l much...
unbelievable - jlian, on 08/17/2008, -8/+53Look at his back muscles.
- ralphie81, on 08/17/2008, -1/+44SI hasn't discovered AJAX yet
- MattNF, on 08/17/2008, -14/+49Chuck Norris isn't funny anymore.
- suttercain, on 08/17/2008, -3/+37You realize the word 'miracle' is not applicable here... right?
- diggcommentguy, on 08/17/2008, -0/+31You mean, every 4 years?
- jlian, on 08/17/2008, -1/+30Haha I meant his weird looking "wings" if you will
- TypeEE, on 08/17/2008, -2/+30Its the iPod
- babbitblob, on 08/17/2008, -1/+26Bet Cavic wishes he didn't cut his fingernails so damn short now, eh?
- casey148, on 08/17/2008, -0/+23Phelpedoes
- cygnus2112, on 08/17/2008, -0/+23Because he destroys any competition?
- natewren, on 08/17/2008, -0/+22Got it:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6/phelpski7.gif - mustang30266, on 08/17/2008, -6/+28At the 1998 Summer Olympics?
- SIRBERUS, on 08/17/2008, -5/+26Actually, I just measured it against my screen, and he won by this much:
|_____________|
According to the NBC people, the length was about the size of the eraser + metal part of a #2 pencil.
Edit... oh um... unbelievable. - waxenpi, on 08/17/2008, -4/+24maybe because you're actually watching them this year, but there's drama every year.
- megamod, on 08/17/2008, -0/+20That and the fact that the other guy chose to cruise too early.
From the first frame:
"I am BATMAN!" - Phelps - jnadke, on 08/17/2008, -0/+19Indeed.... to call it a miracle would be an insult to all of Phelps hard work.
- machocheese34, on 08/17/2008, -4/+23it doesn't have to be the Olympics smartass
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+18No matter how relevant I can't believe you just used a Fast & the Furious quote about the olympics.
- black27696, on 08/17/2008, -4/+22Did someone on dig REALLY just say that. You REALLY "measured" something with ascii art? Screen resolution dude, measuring something with characters makes zero sense. Not to mention differences of displayed fonts. The fonts are relative to each other which is why ascii art works, but as far as measurement...
- potofgravy, on 08/17/2008, -1/+18Like.. they have.. for years..?
- potofgravy, on 08/17/2008, -0/+17Maybe a professional actor?
- synystar, on 08/17/2008, -1/+18All of his opponents are as well. He won that race by less than the distance between the tip of your finger and your first knuckle. Grats Phelps.
- undershirt, on 08/17/2008, -2/+18Poor Dara lost by the same amount of time.
To me, if you take away the medals, winning or losing by 1/100 of a second is pretty insignificant. But it's a big deal when the winner gets enormous recognition. I'm not sure I like that. - Zipko, on 08/17/2008, -0/+15I've been watching the Olympics before bed every night, and Phelps has been phenomenal. Tonight has been ridiculous, between Phelp's 8th and Bolt coasting to a new world recored in the 100m.
- Lumac, on 08/17/2008, -0/+15During the 1972 Olympic Games Gunnar Larsson from Sweden won the 400 m medley by 0.002 seconds. They changed the rules after this, and now only measure it in hundreths of a second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar_Larsson - otros, on 08/17/2008, -0/+14But his father is a dolphin.
- enigmatics, on 08/17/2008, -0/+14It's the flip turns!
- Chuck95, on 08/17/2008, -0/+14Actually... it is. For a lot of them at least. Go find video of the Athens Olympics and then look at these. One of the changes recenly is in the turns. They go deeper and focus a lot more on the long underwater dolphin kicks. I'm old(er) so we didn't learn this when we were swimming, but it makes a huge difference. At least if done right.
- Jonmad17, on 08/17/2008, -0/+14A gif I found online:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/-Dias99/2lxc ...
Phelps is the farthest one, without the suit. - Falsey, on 08/17/2008, -1/+14Thorpedo?
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -6/+19shut up, idiot
- eclectro, on 08/17/2008, -0/+13Actually this technology has been around for thirty years and under development for twice that long, as problems with these kind of finishes has been around as long as the sport has existed. The electronic touchpads in pools have been around since the eighties, having being developed in the sixties-seventies. All the digital high speed cameras are more recent though. They actually have a frame rate higher than the resolution of the clock. It's the reason when the serbs went to protest they were taken into a secret room with a bad ass high def screen and were shown the finish on the screen. When they saw the finish on the screen they withdrew their protest!
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