Olympic snapshots

No time for full-blown arti­cles, few bul­lets from var­i­ous sports links–

Fed­erer snaps gold drought, joins Wawrinka in dou­bles tri­umph
When Fed­erer closed out the vic­tory with ser­vice win­ner, he threw up his arms and began hop­ping, then hugged his partner.

Switzerland’s Roger Fed­erer and Stanis­las Wawrinka cel­e­brate Sat­ur­day after beat­ing Sweden’s Thomas Johans­son and Simon Aspelin in Bei­jing.
The medal is the first in three Olympics for Fed­erer, who has won 12 Grand Slam sin­gles titles.

He was beaten in the quar­ter­fi­nals of sin­gles at Bei­jing by Amer­i­can James Blake, and his 4½-year reign atop the rank­ings will end Mon­day when Rafael Nadal becomes No. 1.

But he’s now a medal­ist for the first time in his three Olympics.

“Sort of a dream-come-true moment,” Fed­erer said. “Maybe it comes around once in a life­time. It’s almost dis­be­lief, to some degree.”

look at that, who says the ten­nis play­ers don’t care about olympics!

It’s 8: Phelps passes Spitz with another gold
BEIJING (AP)—Cheering from the pool deck, Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal of the Bei­jing Games on Sun­day to become the grand­est of Olympic champions.

Jason Lezak held on to the lead Phelps gave him, anchor­ing the United States to a world record in the 400-meter med­ley relay against an Aus­tralian team that did its best to spoil history.

But Phelps, with a big hand from three team­mates, would not be denied. He eclipsed Mark Spitz’s seven-gold per­for­mance at the 1972 Munich Games, an iconic per­for­mance that was sur­passed by a swim­mer fit­ting of this gen­er­a­tion: a 23-year-old from Bal­ti­more who loves hip-hop music, tex­ting with his bud­dies and wear­ing his cap backward.

“I don’t even know what to feel right now,” Phelps said. “There’s so much emo­tion going through my head and so much excite­ment. I kind of just want to see my mom.”

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