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Misty May-Trainer

Misty (5' 9" and 150 pounds) is part of the American womans beach volleyball team. Misty just so happens to also be the defending Olympic beach volleyball champion with Kerri Walsh.

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Roman Šebrle

Roman Šebrle (6' 1", 194 pounds) is from the Check Republic. He is the current world champion in the decathlon. Decathlon is that event that Bruce Jenner won back in the 80's. It is a two day event that is made up of 10 individual events both from track and field.

Roman showed his toughness as he was hit with a Javelin in his chest and was nearly killed in a freak accident, but came back from that injury to battle for Olympic gold.

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Francesca Piccinini

Francesca (5' 11", 165 pounds) is a passing hitter for the indoor volleyball team from Italy. The Italian team won the gold in the 2007 world cup and is one of the teams that are favorites to win a medal at these games.

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Fatima Moreira de Melo

Fatima (5' 7", 121 pounds) is a Dutch field hocky midfielder. The Dutch team were World Champions in 2006 and last year they won the Champions Trophy. I may need to check out field hockey this year.

Olympic Games Week One Recap

Week one is done and it’s time to mothball “The Cube” and head to the track. Week one has been explosive. The pool has been set a blaze as world record after world record has fallen to the total of twenty for the games. Michael Phelps has been spectacular. He has met and exceeded expectation as he has won eight gold medals to become the most decorated Olympic athlete. It wasn’t just the Phelps show as both the men’s and woman’s team piled up a total of 31 medals during the games.

On the tennis court James Blake defeated the No. 1 player in the world… Roger Federer. Blake had never beaten Federer and the win moved Blake semi finals. On the same day both of the Willams sisters were also upset.

In the gym both the men’s and woman’s gymnastics team won medals and Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson took the top two spot in the individual all around. But that was just the beginning as the US also garnered medals in cycling, equestrian, fencing, and shooting to name a few.

As the week ended, the begining of the track events started. The first track event would crown the world’s fastest man. Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell cruised to the finals as they both repeatedly slowed down at the 80 meter mark during the preliminary heats. The finals were sure to be one of the fastest of all time even without Tyson Gay, the world champion from the United States who failed to qualify for the finals.. The finals did not disappoint as Usain bolted down the track in an unbelievable time of 9.69 shattering the world record in the 100 meter.

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Ben Wildman-Tobriner

Ben (6' 4", 200 pounds) is the American 50 meter freestyle champion. He is not only the world champion in the event, but also a member of several world record relay teams.

Ben is not just another great body but is truly a McSteamy as he graduated from Stanford with a degree in Biomechanical Engineering and had decided to postpone entering into medical school so that he could focus his time and energy into qualifying for his first-ever U.S. Olympic team this year.

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Amanda Beard

Amanda is a leggy (5' 7 1/2", 128 pound) American swimmer. She has been to four Olympic games and has several medals to her credit. Her specialty is the 100 meter ... err.... breaststroke.

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Asafa Powell

Asafa Powell (6' 3", 194 pounds) from Jamaica has been the world fastest man and is currently one of the favorites in the 100 meter dash.

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The Australian beauty stands 5' 9" 147 pounds, but she is also the reigning world champion and record holder in both the 200 and 400 meter individual medley. Better known as the IM, the event starts with the butterfly, is followed by the back stroke and breast stroke, and is anchored by the freestyle.

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Ok, maybe not the favorite to win Olympic Gold, but maybe a favorite of yours.

USA Swimming

History was made on Sunday as another swimming record was broken. No, the fact that another swimming record was broken is not the reason to read this as there have been several records per day that have been smashed.

The USA 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay set the world record (3:12.23) in the qualifying heat on Saturday. The team consisting of Nathan Adrian, Cullen Jones, Ben Wildman-Tobriner, and Matt Grevers knew that only one of them was going to swim for the gold the next day. The coaches decided that whoever of them was the fastest would swim on Sunday. Later that day, the French team won their heat and the anchor swimmer when asked stated that they would smash the Americans world record when the two teams met the next day.

The next day, walking on the deck with Cullen were fellow teammates Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale and Jason Lezak. The laded French team had 4 of the fastest 18 freestylers in the world and consisted of European record holders and not only the former 50 meter world record holder but also the former world record holder in the 100 meter.

The United States were in lane 4 and the French team was in lane 5. Phelps stepped onto the starting block and did his intimidating arm motion to psych out the competition. The gun sounded and Eamon Sullivan of Australia took the early lead. At the wall Eamon still had the lead. This was not surprising as he is the current world record holder in both the 50 and 100 meters. At the first exchange Australia was first United States second and France third.

The second leg the overall speed of the both the US and the French overtook the Australian team. At the wall the US led the French by .43 seconds as Garrett Weber-Gale maintained the lead.

The third leg the French former 50 meter world record holder quickly caught up to Cullen Jones who was the only member of to swim the race the previous day. During the second 50 Frederick Bousquet extended the lead and as he handed off to the anchor the French team had a lead of .59 seconds.

Standing on the block were Alain Bernard of France and Jason Lezak of the United States who was the oldest member of the US team. As Bousquet reached the wall, Bernard took off. As Lezak dove in, he was behind Bernard by a body length. Jason made a valiant effort in the first 25 meters to keep contact with the former world record holder. Bernard kicked up huge wake and it seemed to help Lezak keep up with him. As the two reached the wall, Bernard was still in front and he turned for the finish line as the crowd stood up and cheered the competitors. Lezak had a huge flip turn and was fully in the wake of Bernard. Bernard was still in front of Lezak at the 75 meter mark but Lezek had made up a half a body length. Bernard was swimming next to the lane marker which might have been his undoing as Lezak seeing this moved over to be at his side next to the lane marker. With less than 15 meters to go Lezak made a monumental move to catch Bernard. With 5 meters to go the two where neck and neck as each one took a powerful stroke to win the race. The two looked at each other with just a few strokes left and knew that the one to finish strongest would win.

The two finished with what seemed like a tie. The two teams looked up at the times and the United States team erupted as they knew that Lezak had just out touched Bernard. The winning time was 3:08.24 which smashed the world record that was set the pervious day by almost 4 seconds.

At the end history was made as arguably the greatest comeback in a swimming race that I had ever seen had just been completed.

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Federica Pellegrini & Laure Manaudou

Federica (5' 9", 150 pounds) is the Italian world record holder in the 400m freestyle long course, and Laure (5' 10", 140 pounds) is the French world record holder in the 400m short course. The two swimmers have not only been fighting each other in the pool but also have been embroiled in a love triangle with Italian swimmer Luca Marin. It should be heated when these two show up at the pool to face off in the finals of the 400 meter freestyle.

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Dara Torres















Dara Torres (6', 150 pounds) is not only a former Olympic Gold medalist, but she is also the only swimmer ever to be in 5 Olympics... and to boot she's 41.

Good Luck Dara!

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Did you hear.... the Olympics have just started in China?

Well, to add to your viewing pleasure, I've decided to add an element of hotness to the games. Since there are 14 days to the Olympics I'm going to post a daily pic of a hot Olympian each day of the games, and as today is Saturday... I'm going to have to start with two today. This one is for the ladies.

Tomasz Wylenzek (6', 187 pounds) & Christian Gille (6', 192 pounds) are from Germany. They are the defending 2004 Olympic champions in the 1000 meter C2... that's two men canoeing for those of you that don’t know what C2 stands for.