Smashed Man Walking
August 11, 2008
Dear Alain,
Without you, there is a chance we might have lost. You gave us that extra punch in the gut, that extra fire in the belly to turn in a world record time of 3:08.24, and beat you and your teamates by eight hundreths of a second.
Thank you for giving us all the more reason to scream and hug and scream again. Thank you for giving the reporters an angle to shoot their questions from.
Thank you for thinking you would smash us – it made our smashing of you all the more enjoyable.
Please work on something equally arrogant and presumptuous for the next Olympics.
Till then,
Michael Phelps, Garrett Webber-Gale, Cullen Jones, and Jason Lezak
August 11, 2008 at 2:05 pm
you got that right! Kick ass, U.S. correction: kick frog ass!
August 11, 2008 at 2:12 pm
ye-ah! (Thanks for commenting.)
August 13, 2008 at 7:42 am
i am ashamed to say
i have not actually watched any of the olympics yet.
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whoops…
August 14, 2008 at 4:09 pm
yeah, seriously – shamey, shamey. ;P