Just a week ago I was celebrating the lone gold medal of my home country.. Hey, I even left a comment on Abhinav's own blog on the same day that he won the gold (although he hadn't blogged yet after his winning at that time ..) Mine was the 788th comment in here... How more personal can you get in wishing the first olympic champion of your country.. !! (and 788th rank out of 1.1 billion is not that bad you know... )
Well, that had re-kindled my Olympic Fever and I wanted to watch the 100 mts Dash finals, the event that caught my fascination as a boy due to the dramatic episode (the rise and fall) of Ben Johnson in 1988 Seoul Olympics.. But I was too busy doing my Saturday chores, that I couldn't watch it live. When I wanted to catch-up online I found that the videos of Usain Bolt's amazing run is hard to come-by until I found one on dailymotion.com. (I guess the clip is again removed...) what a race.. Being Jamaica's first gold in this Olympics, I can imagine how ecstatic the Jamaicans would be feeling now...
Theory of relativity is clearly demonstrated in here.. When you realize that, 9.X seconds is normally the time you associate with gulping a glass of water, You have to admit that time is relative.. these are the fastest 9 Secs ever.. !! :-)
The victory dance that the media highlighted is a bit overdone in my opinion. The slowing down towards the end part is also exaggerated. You do notice a drop in his pace when he crosses the blue hoardings near the finish line.. But Its what I call realization of the victory a little too early and hence going with the flow.
August 17, 2008
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