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Japan got silver in Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay... sort of unbelievable... and even more... they just lagged Australia 0.23 seconds... though not that small... but smaller gap than what they led Russia!
Noticed anything wrong? probably you know it... USA was disqualified... the reason... Crocker jumped too fast... and further reason? 1) possibly (be more 'cautious' when using these two words: probably and possibly after watching the Pursuit of Happyness) not much practice in handover 2) probably they're behind Japan after the breaststroke... but indeed it isn't strange!! it's just a Heat and Hansen's 'sick'... but Kitajima's swimming hard!!
anyway, without the USA... sorry to say... the Final became more exciting and interesting to watch!! :P
Japan was in the 4th lane!!!! God!!! This lane seemed to have given the Japanese power to fight for the medals!
Morita's start was good... at least lead for a while... finished the fourth... 54.76 fine.. his norm... (i didn't remember his exact result in Athens.. but probably he's not working out his best in this whole event) then Kitajima had a real wonderful performance... not even picked up the 1st position.. but he finished at 59.23!!!!!! in fact broke the 100m breaststroke CR already! And just a 0.1s lag the WR! If he swam this in his individuals, he should have got one more Gold! Then it came to Yamamoto... another great guy... as steve said, 'i remember his face 'coz he had stepped on the "medallist's stairs" in other international games before!' He said in a news that he kept telling himself to swim hard to 'defense' the 1st position for his teammate! He did it in 51.9, his best time in this event. Same as Kitajima, if he swam like this in his Individuals, he might have chance to fight for a medal, which he should have enough 'power' to fight for one but dunno what happened to his Heats.
Anyway, I guess the Freestyle swimmer also worked very hard... we all witnessed how he became the 2nd then the 3rd... and almost the 4th... even the commentary said that Japan might lose the medal even their first three swimmers did a good job...
but somehow... that freestyle guy just got some 'force' and 'power' to swim!! and caught up the Russia! and even 'invading' the Aussie!
Finally from the TV... it's quite unbelievable that the Aussie and Japan almost touched together (you know... from TV.. bare eye can't distinguish too small differences)...
Only 0.23s lagged the Aussie... and that's why... the King of Breaststroke... steve said he really swam like a frog... :P Kitajima-san said they are 'swimming' toward Beijing! btw... they broke the Japanese record...
just wonder if China can hv some result in swimming too? the Japanese and Korean Asian game medallists have some performances.. at least some.. like entering the Finals... where's ours? besides the Women's Team and Wu Peng?
anyway.... looking forward to Beijing!!! ^_^
P.S. mushroom's asking me to join her as a volunteer... i plan to do so too... just worrying if we r qualified.. as i know... they require 'sports background' ppl....
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