KET'S RANTINGS!

What a great ending to the men's 4 x 100 meter free relay. It was so cool to watch. Not just because its one of the stops for Michael Phelps to get a gold medal but all day long the Highly favored French team was talking trash. All about how they where placed in the Olympics to embarrass the American team, they where going to make the USA look bad. So trash was hitting the fan far before the race had even started. To me, never trash talk before the event, do it after! That is what the Americans did. The race started great especially with all the hype around it. Phelps took a great lead set the pace high. I mean come on when the top five teams beat the world record that is saying something. But the french started to look to take over and on the final leg it looked all but there's. All Alicen and I could say was "stupid french!" As they came to the final 50 mm it totally change. Jason Lezak of the USA totally took the last leg and swam the best I have ever seen. Even Jason said it best "People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics." It was amazing. He totally caught the "frenchie" and blow by him enough to reach the wall just milla-seconds ahead to win the gold. I wish anyone could have seen Alicen and I as we watched this race. McKinley was asleep, I had Tatum in my arms asleep and we are trying to jump up and down and scream for delight while not awaking the little ones. It was quite the event. Well worth waking the kids if we had. Then to see everyone including Michael Phelps look at the leader board and see who one. It was that split second that everyone holds their breath. Once it showed USA winning, it was awesome to see the 4 relayers yelling and screaming for what had just happened. I feel bad for any one that missed it. It was just totally amazing!!!