Olympics and (my) the like

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Wow. I'd never thought you'd realized. :p

Oh, By the way, it was Steffen of Germany who won gold in the 50m free, not Torres. Steffen outraced Torres one hundredths of a second ONLY and it was crazy! Just like Phelps when he won over Cavic in the 200m fly.
But, Nonetheless, I agree! With her age, she sure swam one heck of a race.

Have you watched the 4x100m free with Lezak (USA) catching up with Bernard (France); and he, winning the event and breaking the world record? That race was soooo exciting! Which, that, culminated Phelps' second gold.

As for the Philippines, its pretty much a long stretch to go before our country can haul a gold medal. With the lack of training facilities and inadequate funds to support the national athletes, the burden would always still be there.

What saddens me the most though is that (and I know this for a fact, i've been there) the POC (Phil Olympic Comm.) recruits foreign-bred athletes - most of which are from the USA - and goes as far as faking their documents and altering their citizenships just to justify a medal reap in the olympics. Do you think all those 15 delegates are full filipinos? Its a shame. Just what happened to our grass-roots?

Wow. Sorry for a long response.



Oops. I stand corrected ^^ I had just read that in y!, though I watched the competition itself ... Torres has a body of an athlete at her mid twenties! o_O

No I wasn't able to watch the whole thing o_O!!!! But AXN showed strips of it, I'll watch it in youtube!! "Phelps propels" ...haha oooookey!

I read the roster of athletes sent by the Philippines, some have names that are barely Filipino-like. Miguel Molina, the swimmer we were hoping to grab the gold, didn't even make it to the 2nd prelimary round. To think that GMA said she'll give a ## million peso award to whoever takes home a gold medal for the Philippines. Kind of ironic though since she should have used the ## million peso award to fund the equipment and training of our Olympians.

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