A sports oriented open thread...which basically never happens here at AMERICAblog. So, congrats to Michael Phelps for winning his record-breaking eighth gold medal. He truly seemed humbled during the post-race interview.
I have to give a shout out to Dara Torres for winning two silver medals tonight. She's 41.
Not like we all haven't seen lots of images from the Olympics, but I got the pics emailed tonight from a friend in Beijing. They were taken after the relay on Tuesday when Phelps got his second medal:
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