U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A

Across the board, a great day for the Americans!  Many medals in many sports, but a new hero in track & field is born.  The man broke his leg halfway around the track in the qualifying round of the 4x400, but didn't want to let his teammates or his country down, so he finished the race.  Amazing inspiration!

"As soon as I took the first step past the 200m mark I felt it break.  I heard it.  I even put out a little war cry, but the crowd was so loud you couldn't hear it.  I wanted to just lie down.  It felt like somebody literally just snapped my leg in half." Mitchell said.  "I knew if I finished strong we could still get it (the baton) around.  I saw Josh Mance motioning me in for me to hand it off to him, which lifted me.  I didn't want to let those three guys down, or the team down, so I just ran on it.  It hurt so bad.  I'm pretty amazed that I still split 45 seconds on a broken leg."

Don't want to spoil anything for those of you watching on tape delay, but just have to say that you don't want to miss tonight.  The Women's 4x100 semi-finals and the Men's 200 final are awesome, but the Men's 800 final is possibly the best race I've ever seen.  Don't miss it!

Finally, taking a page from the NBC book of How to Piss People Off, the BBC coverage ended after the 200 and I had to watch the Decathlon 1500 on a computer that buffered every eleven seconds.  Arghhh!