Olympics winding down

Jamaica, with Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell, destroys the rest of the field in the 4x100M race, and shatter the existing world record. The U.S. dropped its baton in prelims, probably would not have mattered; 37.10, about 1 full second ahead of second place Trinidad and Tobago.

Crazy Tom Hammond says never a more dominant performance in track and field. Hmm, Bolt is giving $50,000 to the victims of the Sichuan earthquake; the IOC president Jacque Rogge is an idiot for ripping him for showboating, he's everything that's great about the Olympics--exciting, genuine and amazing.

They're also showing Men's 10M platform semifinal, a weird thing given that no Americans are really in it--and there's no medal at stake! China's way out front 1-2, with two dives left.

Now, decathalon, where another mixed-race kid from Hawaii is set to triumph. Bryan Clay, who's half black/half Japanese, and is someone I really like, has a solid lead over everyone else as they jog through the final event, 1500M. Bryan Clay, jogging in last in his heat on what's essentially a victory lap; a bunch of the others are flopped on the ground, and now he does too. Wow, they're amazingly fatigued after doing 10 events in two days.

China's got 47 golds, U.S. has 31--nobody's had more than 50 since the Soviet Union did it in Seoul. Overall, U.S. has 102, China has 89. They close with Clay's decathalon gold ceremony; what a great story. He tears up; hope to hear more from him over the final two days, he won by the largest margin since Munich in 1972!