I know, I know — Michael Phelps is a golden god (I blogged about it already). If you check his Facebook fan page today you’ll see he has over 943,797 fans, 43,249 wall posts 1,019 fan photos and 355 discussion topics (side note: it’s interesting how people are adopted his Facebook “wall” as a virtual yearbook. Literally people are writing messages in the context that they would if they were signing a yearbook or guest book).

So, aside from Phelps being a-m-a-z-i-n-g, I wanted to bring to your attention the 100m dash. It was shown LATE on Saturday, so the majority of the U.S. missed it. People have been blogging how NBC has failed to prominently highlight the 100m dash — which is shocking since to me, I mean come on NBC, the 100m is one of the flagship events of the summer Olympics.

If you haven’t seen it yet — watch it first. If you have seen it… HOLY JEEZ. Usain Bolt of Jamaica jogged in the last 15 meters he was so far ahead. I personally ran track in high school (and loved it), one of my events was the 100m dash, to see this is utterly amazing. It’s not an event that historically is won by such a large margin.

Not only did he win, but he set the world record. What’s frustrating is he could of easily won with with larger margin and faster time. EASILY. While Usain Bolt may have not thought twice about it — his decision to “jog in” the final 15 meters it was something I struggled with. Olympians train their entire lives for moments like this. Was he making a mockery of his win? Was he just being plain arrogant?

I believe there are several life defining moments that happen in each of our lives. This was one for Usain Bolt. Maybe it’s just the competitive nature within me, but I would have left the celebrating for after the race was over. I believe it would have made more of an impact if Bolt left the games with a WR that was significantly faster than the previous record.

Details matter. While Bolt still walked away with the gold and a new WR, he may never be back at the games again to set another WR, or even worse — as good of shape to do it so easily. If I had my way, I would of made my mark in the world with a little more respect and class than Usain Bolt did.
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