Day 3 is AMAZING!!!

If you missed any of the pool action for day 3 of the 2008 Olympics games, you missed some of the best swimming in history.

To start things off, there was some really good swimming on the women's side. Christine Magnusson had a strong showing in the 100m butterfly snagging Silver in her first Olympics. Not longer after that Katie Hoff had a great race in the 400m Free. Hoff lead nearly the entire race, only to lose by 7 one-hundredths of a second. She grabbed the silver, but lost her grip on the gold by a fingertip.

Then later in the evening, we had the real fireworks! The men's 4x100m Free Relay!

All day long the French team had been talking smack. All day long they said they were going to "smash" Michael Phelps and the Americans. Well the French team did break the world record. They were one of 5 teams that broke the world record in this race. But the team that broke that record by the most?

You guessed it. Good ole' American boys "smashed" everyone and every record. The destroyed the old record by nearly 4 seconds. This race, which had 5 WR breaking runs, was probably the greatest relay race of all time. If you didn't see it, find someone who DVR'd it, rush to their home and immediately watch it.

Michael Phelps was the highlighter for this race, winning his 2nd Gold in these Olympics. He is still locked in and on pace to break Mark Spitz record of 7 Gold's in one Olympic. As great as Phelps is and was in this race, he wasn't the key for this team.

Jason Lezak, the oldest man on the swimming team, anchored this race and swam the fastest 100m split in history. The amazing thing is that the French were actually ahead by nearly half a body length in the last 50m. But Lezak finished his historic leg of 46.06 to beat France's Alain Bernard by a hand giving the U.S. a win by 8 one-hundredths of second. Lezak's teammates reactions is exactly the same as the reaction in my house, and hopefully millions of others.

After this day the U.S. is on top of the total medal standings with 11. We are behind in the total Gold's though. I think after seeing this though, there is no question that with swimming alone we are going to make major leaps on medal podium. Phelps, 200m, Monday night. Watch it, or you will hate yourself!