Now that Michael Phelps is done at the Olympics, it seems that NBC is trying its best to piss us off to no end. Some fool at CBS decided that showing events that people would like to see live, like women's gymnastics or the 100m hurdles, should instead be broadcast 17 hours after they happened. But on the flip side, they made sure that tonight we'll get BMX racing - new to the Olympics - featured live. I tell you, someone needs to be shot at NBC. Immediately.
So, because NBC sucks, and I'm tired of holding off on this information, here's a quick breakdown of what's happened today in Beijing while you were asleep or at work.
Women's gymnastics: Shawn Johnson finally got her hands on a gold medal by beating teammate Nastia Luikin on the women's individual balance beam. As good of an Olympics as Johnson had - 1 gold, three silvers - Beijing was still a disappointment for her, since she was considered by far the best gymnast in the world coming into these Games. However, she's only 16, and could very well come back to compete in London in 2012.
Women's track and field: The top three qualifiers in the women's 100m hurdles were all Americans, and it appeared that the race would be a breeze for Lolo Jones. However, Jones, who looked like a machine in the semis, nailed the second to last hurdle in the final and finished 7th. Fellow American Dawn Harper won gold.
Meanwhile, Sanya Richards, who had a great shot to win the women's 400m, tweaked her hamstring apparently on the stretch run of the race and finished with a bronze.
Women's basketball: The real Dream Team, that would be the USA Women, beat South Korea by about a million.
Men's Wrestling: Henry Cejudo of the U.S. beat Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga, 2-2 on a tiebreaker and 3-0, for the gold medal in freestyle wrestling at 55 kilograms (121 pounds). Cejudo was born in Los Angeles to parents who were undocumented workers, so somewhere Lou Dobbs is angry.




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