Wednesday, August 13, 2008

what dog days of summer?

August is typically hot, humid, icky, typical 'dog days of summer' weather in southern Indiana. But the last 5 days or so have been absolutely perfect. upper 70's, low humidity. And throw Olympic swimming on top of it, and the only thing that could make my days more perfect is to not have to go to work!

More impressions of the olympic swimming...

I can't say enough about Micheal Phelps. The guy is simply amazing. In my opinion he is the greatest swimmer ever. period.

The other person I'm so impressed with is Aaron Piersol. Yeah, he just swims backstroke (in the big meets), but his attitude is so awesome. He is so laid back and relaxed, but at the same time such a fierce competitor when it comes down to the wire. The 200 back showdown with he and Ryan Lochte will be fabulous. I want to pull for Ryan because I think he is such an amazing athlete, who just happens to swim the same events as Phelps and Piersol, so he always has his work cut out. Maybe they can tie for gold! After all the both hold the world record in the 200back (at least they did at the time I wrote this).

A Bloomington local, Joel Stager, is in Beijing watching the Olympics. Joel is still a fantastic masters swimmer, and runs the Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming at Indiana University. He has been blogging his time in Beijing.

Mark Warkentin (olympic 10k swimmer) is also blogging, its a great read.

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