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Just had to share these!

Usain Bolt’s performance in these Olympic games are in my opinion way more impressive than what Michael Phelps did in the pool. He became the first man to win the sprint double since the legendary Carl Lewis won the double at the LA games in 1984. He is the only man to win both events in a single Olympics and set world records in both.

He won 100 metres gold in a world record time of 9.69 seconds.

In the 200m he completed the sprint double in a new world record time of 19.30 seconds. He broke the record set by American Michael Johnson of 19.32 sec set at the Atlanta Games in 1996.

Johnson had this to say following Bolt’s 100m win: “It was the most impressive athletics performance I’ve ever seen in my life,” Johnson said. “I certainly expected him to win. I can’t say I expected him to win that fast or separate himself from the field so much. The fact he could have run even faster shows how great it was. It was an incredible performance.”

Matthias Steiner wins gold in the men’s +105kg category.

Clean & Jerk 258 kg / 568 lbs
Snatch 203 kg / 447 lbs

Matthias Steiner wins gold

His wife died tragically in a car crash in July 2007. Awe inspiring performance from him.

South Africa has just won it’s first medal. It has been quite a disappointing games for South Africa, especially after the swimming heroics from 2004.

Khotso Mokoena won a silver in the men’s long jump. He was 10cm behind winner Irving Saladinho of Panama, jumping 8.24m to the winner’s 8.34m.

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Michael Phelps is going after eight gold medals in Beijing. He has started in fine form, his time of 4:07.82 in the heats of the 400m individual medley was 1.44 seconds faster than the next fastest competitor, and a new Olympic record.

Can he do it? He seems to be completely focused on it, even passing on appearing at the opening ceremony. If he makes it will he go down as the greatest Olympian ever? I am no swimming fan, but this is going to be something to watch!

Update 1: 1 down, 7 to go. A dominating performance, he smashed his own world record by 1.41 seconds.

Update 2: Gold number 2 came in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. The U.S. team won in a world-record time of 3 minutes, 8.24 seconds.

Update 3: Gold number 3! He blew away the field in the 200-meter freestyle and set another world record (1 minute, 42.96 seconds)

Update 4: Gold number 4 and 5! He won the 200-meter butterfly, setting yet another world record and then swam the leadoff of a runaway victory by the U.S. 800 freestyle relay team, which shattered the old world mark by more than four seconds.

Update 5: Gold number 6, world record number 6! Phelps dominated right from the start of the 200-meter individual medley and won in one minute 54.23 seconds.

Update 6: Gold number 7! Wow that was his toughest one yet, he won by one-hundredth of a second! To be honest I really didn’t think he was going to take this one. 50.58s vs 50.59s! The first non world record swim as well, though he broke the Olympic record.

Update 7: Gold number 8, world record number 8. The most dominate performance in Olympic history?

8 gold medals, 7 world records in these Olympics. 16 total Olympic medals, 14 of them gold. Absolutely incredible.

Mauritius is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean.

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Diving in Mauritius

Pretty horrific accident

Baranyai was trying to snatch 148kg in his third lift in the men’s 77kg division, when his elbow popped out of its socket.

More pics at this link

Update:

Janos Baranyai of Hungary is recovering well after dislocating his elbow at the Beijing Olympics weightlifting competition and should be able to resume his career, the International Weightlifting Federaion chief said Friday.

The 24 year-old tore his right elbow joint while making a snatch attempt at 148kg in the 77kg division contest on Wednesday, sparking fears that he would not be able to lift again.

“There is no fracture, just dislocation of two bones,” IWF chief Tamas Ajan told a news conference.

Update link

and an eel bites your thigh, that’s a MORAY! (cheesey I know but I laugh everytime)

Moray Eel

A nice pic of a lionfish to go with it

Lionfish

Just a few pics of these amazing animals, ripped from video so not the best quality. They also look a little fuzzy after the post processing, so need to work on that photoshop action.

Tiger Sharks

Tiger Sharks

Tiger Sharks

Tiger Sharks

Tiger Sharks

Tiger Sharks

Tiger Sharks

Tiger Sharks

Tiger Sharks

Tiger Sharks

Compressed video copy here if you would like to take a look:
Tiger Sharks

About time I put up a few scuba pics. So here is a small collection.

Divers at Sodwana

Divers at Sodwana

Divers at Sodwana

Divers at Bass Lake

Divers at Bass Lake

Divers at Bass Lake

Divers at Bass Lake

Great vis at Bass Lake

Manta Ray at Sodwana

Moray at Sodwana

Finally one of my favourite pics

Sunburst