Sunday, August 17, 2008 Raining and cool

Michael Phelps coasts into history with 8 gold.

Today is wet. It is raining so heavily all the whole day. Daughter rested at home and wife worked all day. Daughter finished another four consonant phonemes and she did a very goooood performance. while watching the Olympic events, she tried to finish her embroidery in several days. I think she will manage it very well.

Today is a great day for Michael Phelps, also for the Beijing Olympic Games. Michael won his recrod eight gold medal with his teammates in the men's 4 x 100m medley relay swimming final to become the grandest of Olympic champions. With the history-making eight gold, Michael has become the first man to win eight gold medals at the same Olympics, passing his predecessor Spiltz, who won seven gold medals at the same Olympics in 1972. So Michael said,"Everything is accomplished." The medals were won in: 400m individual medley (August 10), 4x100m freestyle relay (August 11), 200m freestyle (August 12), 200m butterfly (August 13). 4x200m freestyle relay (August 13), 200m individual medley (August 15), 100m butterfly (August 16), and 4x100m medley relay (August 17).

Today is also great for our players who stormed 8 gold medals to crown among 37 gold medals that have been produced in the afternoon and in the evening.

Qiu Jian seized the 28th gold in men's 50m rifle three postions. Four beautiful girls, Tang Bin, Jin Ziwei, Xi Aihua and Zhang Yangyang pocketed the gold medal in women's four-person scull rowing. This is the first tims our rowing team won the gold medal in the Olympic Games, which is a great breakthrough in this event. They have written a glorious page in history. Wang Jiao claimed the title in women's 72kg category freestyle wrestling, which is the 30th gold medal. Zou Kai made a fantastic performnace in men's floor exercise, resulting in seizing the 31st gold for our country. In men's pommel horse, our player, Xiao Qin, delecated an amazing show to all the spectators and viewers and handed in the 32nd gold for our delegation.

Our country-ball players, Zhang Yining, Wang Nan and Guo Yue, stormed to the first Olympic team gold medal in women's table tennis team final, by beating Singapore easily for this team gold. This is the 33rd gold of our delegation. Our Super Dan bagged the badminton men's singles champion, which is the 34th gold of our delegation. Guo Jingjing at last pocketed the 35th gold for our delegation in women's 3m springboard singles event, and her teammate, also rival, settled for bronze.

Today our great Olympic players delecated 8 gold medals to us, and we are all proud of them and their marvelous and excellent performances in various venues and stadiums.