Phelps, Bolt and US basketball team, the highlights of Beijing

 

Well the Beijing Olympics are over, and it seems like everybody is more than satisfied about the final results; even Jacques Rogge, the IOC president called them “truly exceptional”

And for China it meant much more than just being the Olympics hosts, they also ended with the most medals (51) above the USA (36) and Russia (23).

As some of the Beijing Olympics highlights, we have Michael Phelps in swimming, which finished with 8 titles, beating the gold medal mark imposed before by Mark Spitz.

And nobody would deny that the USA Basketball team was the main feature of the Olympics as the team leaded by Kobe Bryant and Lebron James excelled expectations and showed the world why “hoops” are one of the American sports by excellence as they beat up each one of their rivals by outstanding scores, including their victory over Germany by 106-57 (49 points of difference), and only Spain came as the real deal in front of the Americans since they lost at the finals for the gold medal by just 11 points with a score of 118-107.

Also Usain Bolt, the now famous runner, who broke 3 world records and won the 100 and 200 meter competitions.

One important fact not to be forgotten is the fact that the US men’s volleyball team won the gold medal and went undefeated in despite of the tragedy occurred to their head coach, Hugh McCutcheon, as his father-in-law was murdered and his mother-in-law was severely injured by a Chinese man at a tourist spot in Beijing… All the goods to

McCutcheon and family…

In total, more than 100 Olympic records were set, and more than 40 world records were break at the 2008 Beijing Olympics,

Now we’ll need to wait 4 years until London hosts the 2012 Olympics…