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Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain breaks the oldest world record in swimming (women’s 800 meters freestyle) and earns herself her second gold medal (and Great Britain’s fourth).

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Valeriy Borchin of Russia out-walked Jefferson Perez of Ecuador to win the gold medal in 20-kilometer speed walking, an event which may be described as the orphan son of running and walking.

Valeryiy’s gold is the fourth for Russia, a sleeping giant which has yet to flex its muscles in Beijing. To their credit, Russia’s wrestlers are fully awake as they won the first three gold medals for good old Mother Russia.

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His fingers say it all, Filho Cielo is number one. He bagged Brazil’s first gold medal in Beijing after he ruled the men’s 50m freestyle.

Whatever happened to Australia’s Eamon Sullivan? Anyways, congratulations to Filho Cielo.

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Are tattoos cool? Of course they are. Why would these Olympians scar themselves with tattoos if they are not cool.

If you are wondering who these tattoos belong to, here’s some of them (from top, left to right): archer Natalia Valeeva of Italy, Brazilian diver Cesar Castro, an unidentified swimmer, Cesar Castro [again], British cyclist Cris Hoy, Brazilian diver Hugo Parisi, British archer Laurence Godfrey, and an unidentified German swimmer.

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Just because this U.S. artistic gymnastics team “only” won the bronze medal doesn’t mean they can’t show off their muscles, abs, and armpits.

So now the nakedness score between the dueling male and female Olympians: males = 2 vs. females = 2. The naked females would be Rebecca Romero and Britta Heidemann while the males would be this gymnastics team and New Zealand’s football team.

I erroneously stated earlier that the male vs. female nakedness score is even. In fact, it’s only now that the score got even.

By the way, I said in an earlier post that Americans are crybabies but let’s give them credit for having an ethnically diverse team. Diversity is part of what makes America great, no?

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