What it takes to win in the Olympics

[cjolley]

Phelps was 3 or 4 feet behind at 5 feet from the finish and WON!
The Serbian guy, Milorad Cavic, wasn't exactly robbed. But, gee whiz, what's a guy got to do to win...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0808/oly.phelps.sequence/content.1.html?eref=T1

[Dr Mordrid]

Have a 6' 7" wing-span for starters

[Kruzin]

I was sure this thread was gonna be about entering 10 year olds and claiming they're 16...

[Dr Mordrid]

Phelps just won #8 in the 400m relay.

3m 29.34s, another world record.

[Nowhere]

Strangelly related to the topic was a past interview with our recent gold medalist in shot-put (BTW, new interview, right after winning, has already become a legend - almost orgasmic reporter vs. new gold medalist that cools the reporter down for 3 minutes or so - "it's not cosmic, it's shot-put"; ou, and apparently he calls the ball "bitch"/etc., which was somewhat heard while throwing )

One particularly good quote was something like "shot-put is the only normal sport during olympics - you're free to have a bite or beer" :>